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What Republicans Risk By Obstructing Obama's Supreme Court Nomination
Conventional wisdom states that Republicans have every political reason to block anyone President Obama nominates for the Supreme Court. Here's why that's wrong.
The Death of the Republican Party
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in 2016. RIP. It has been replaced by warring tribes.
The Black-White Jobs Gap Is Especially Wide In Red States
A look at state unemployment statistics raises a question: Why is it that states that are under total Republican control have generally not shown any significant progress in narrowing the racial unemployment gap?
How Scalia’s Death Affects That Important Public-Employee Union Case
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death affects the Friedrichs v. California Teachers case, which the conservative majority on the court was prepared to use to bankrupt public-employee unions.
One Percenters Get Their Own Special Social Welfare Deal
The IRS took five years to review the Crossroads GPS application for nonprofit social welfare status. Most Americans would need five minutes to determine that Crossroads is about politics, not social welfare.
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Jockey For African-American Vote Sanders gains on Clinton nationally. Politico: "...the latest national NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly online tracking poll released Tuesday [shows] Hillary Clinton's advantage over Bernie Sanders has narrowed to its smallest in the...
How Democrats Should Have Answered Gwen Ifill's Question on Race
With one question, moderator Gwen Ifill flipped the script on race relations in America, during the last Democratic presidential debate. Now, Democrats must learn how to answer it.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Last Roundup
Give the feds credit. Playing the long game in the Oregon standoff worked. Not only did they bring in the last of the wannabe “militiamen” without giving them what they wanted, federal agents also nabbed the grandfather of them all.
Is Bernie Sanders Promising 'Free Stuff' To Buy Votes?
Corporate conservatives are accusing Sanders of "buying votes" by "promising" "free stuff." Is it true? The people who consider the things We the People "get" from government just "free stuff" misunderstand the purpose of government.
Progressive Breakfast
Nevada Presidential Forum Saturday Bernie Sanders and Clinton surrogate to appear Saturday, Feb. 13th 11:30 AM PT/2:30 PM PT, at forum organized by Nevada community groups. Click here for Livestream: Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Cory Booker (representing Hillary...
