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Author: Steve Sorkin

A lifelong organizer and activist, Steve Sorkin now qualifies for the senior menu at IHOP and spends his time pontificating on the intertubes. He credits reading Doonesbury faithfully for 40 years for everything he knows.

More “compassionate conservative” BS

November 27, 2013 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

Get ready for another wave of “compassionate conservatism,” as politicos like Paul Ryan try to cut Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, aid to families

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Militarized police force: No longer just a threat, it’s here

July 15, 2013 Steve Sorkin Cities, Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, Police, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

Judging from the two excerpts published so far on Salon.com, Radley Balko’s new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police

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Obama’s judicial nominations: Still blocked after all these years

May 8, 2013 Steve Sorkin Courts, Obama, Politics, Senate Leave a comment

Don’t fall for that baloney that “both sides do it.” We are talking about obstructionism many magnitudes worse than anything done before by either

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Behind the background-check fiasco: All politics, all the time

May 3, 2013 Steve Sorkin Crime/Violence, Guns, Obama, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

Here you have it. A Republican senator admits that the GOP voted not on the merits of the issue, not on doing what is

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