BNR - 'Sanders To Spend Martin Luther King Day In Alabama' & 'Why Young...
Sanders In Alabama On Martin Luther King DayThe trip underscores both Sanders’s confidence that he’ll still be running strong after New Hampshire and the importance of African-American voters if...
View ArticleCartoon - New York Values
Sorry I haven’t posted a new cartoon in a week. I was really busy and totally neglected this site. Visit Claytoonz for everything you’ve missed.Follow me on Twitter if you want to see my cartoons as...
View ArticleDKos Ex-Pat Shaun King Endorses Bernie Sanders for President, Citing Racial...
Just in www.nydailynews.com/…, former DKos front pager and a moral voice for #blacklivesmatters, Shaun King has just endorsed Bernie Sanders in his Daily News column:As a general rule, I don't trust...
View ArticleClinton Trending in the Wrong Direction
This story was mentioned in another diary comments thread by reflectionsv37, but I thought some folks may have missed it. www.washingtonpost.com/…Hillary Clinton’s national lead is slipping faster in...
View ArticleFlight attendant tells how she learned to recognize human trafficking and...
It’s time for the Super Bowl and for most that means football, big screens, chips and chili. But with this big event comes a dark side—a surge of the human trafficking of girls/young women. American...
View ArticleOregon standoff protestor arrested after driving federal vehicle into town...
Although the militia men and women occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge have been given a free pass to come and go as they please, law enforcement are drawing the line at them driving stolen...
View ArticleThe Bargaining Chip that WAS the Public Option
Maybe there would not be so much interest in reviving Single Payer NOW, if the Political Operatives for the ACA had played their 'Bargaining Chips' a bit differently, BACK THEN?Chief of Staff Draws...
View ArticleAmazing Exchange at NPR - The GOP Unraveling Is Starting to be Acknowledged!
Afternoon drive time is when I usually listen to All Things Considered on NPR, or a bit of Hannity if I can stand it. (If I can’t stand either, lately I’ve been going to a CD of tracks from Cowboy...
View ArticleObama Signs Flint Poisoned Water Emergency Declaration. Sanders Calls on...
x Obama signs emergency declaration for Michigan over contaminated water.— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 16, 2016WASHINGTON (WXYZ) - President Obama has signed a Michigan emergency...
View ArticleBREAKING: Sanders campaign condemns 'desperate and vile attack' from...
x Just in: Sanders fundraising off @anniekarni's report that Clinton allies will ask about Sanders' health reports pic.twitter.com/b56dqMq3wA— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) January 16, 2016
View ArticleThe Disturbing Truth Behind Bernie's "Negative Ad" on Wall Street
On the Rachel Maddow show on January 14, Hillary Clinton tried to defend her attacking Bernie Sanders for running a so-called “negative ad” about Wall Street, and what Bernie sees as two different...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Responses to Bernie Skeptics
Robert Reich has a great facebook post up addressing Bernie skeptics:Six Responses to Bernie Skeptics: 1. “He’d never beat Trump or Cruz in a general election.”Wrong. According to the latest polls,...
View ArticleUPDATE 2 - Clinton campaign made "serious miscalculations." Again.
Earlier this week, I penned a diary under the title, The Emperor has no clothes.I started that diary with this:Let's be honest. Very few people believed, at the beginning of this campaign season, that...
View ArticleOh, FFS! This is what could be on the wreck list,
if everyone would shut the fuck up about Hernie and Billary. Honest to God! Do you think anyone is reading any of these diaries and thinking “Even if that comment did get hide rated into oblivion, I...
View ArticleIn Greenland, Zachariæ Isstrøm glacier has come undone and is flowing into...
“It’s one more side of Greenland that’s starting to lose mass … It’s like a boat that is taking on water from all sides.” Jeremie Mouginot of the University of California (UC), IrvineBeneath the calm...
View ArticleBernie raises $3.1 Million since Tuesday
Amid escalating tensions with Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders’ campaign has raised $3.1 million since Tuesday, his communications director confirmed to POLITICO on Saturday night. Read more:...
View Article20 Years An Expat "I just don't get it anymore"
It has been longer than that if you include my school years [St George’s Edinburgh, it would be 26] but 20 years a full time expat split between the UK and France, so over half my life. The reason I...
View ArticleHRC Fans Argue Urgent Need To Hear Bernie's Plans On How He'll Finance...
There was a diary on the Recommended list yesterday with a title that explicitly claimed Bernie Sanders was not being completely honest about his Single Payer Health Care plan. I found this claim to...
View ArticleOhio's Not Waiting for Bernie Sanders
Last week, Bernie’s first campaign office opened in Ohio… without the campaign. A group of forward-thinking activists and die hard Bernie Sanders supporters began planning and raising funds in...
View ArticleBNR - 'Sanders Prepares For The #DemDebate' & 'Bernie Puts Boots On The...
How Sanders Is Preparing For The DebateThe debate moderator looked at the woman in a dark pantsuit standing beside Senator Bernie Sanders and said, “Secretary Clinton, we’ll give you one minute for an...
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