Rep. Chris Stewart, a Republican from Utah made this statement on Monday at the House Intelligence Committee, “Every media organization, every political organization, every
Category: Corruption
Arrests: What’s missing from Trumpgate
It unfolded so differently. The first that we heard about it was the announcement of the arrests, not rumors. Watergate began with the weird
McCaskill stands up to Sessions; GOP attempts smack-down
Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskilll didn’t waste any time. As soon as we learned that current Attorney General and former Trump campaign advisor, Jeff
Holman rule: Purging federal employees
Republicans in Congress are binge-ing and purging–but their disorder isn’t of the eating variety. They are binge-ing on power and setting the stage–via passage
James Comey’s “Oh shit” Moment
Having worked with high school students for the past 45 years, there are a couple of descriptors of life that involve the word “shit.”
Three things Hillary can do if she wins the election
Soon after Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, he convened an economic summit in his home town of Little Rock, AR. He saw the
How Verizon convinced me to use paper ballots
Two things happened to me over this past weekend to strengthen my conviction that paper ballots are superior to electronic voting machines. The first
What Obama and Sanders can do to keep “the Bern” alive while helping Clinton
President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders met on Thursday, June 9, 2016 to discuss “where do we go now” following the primaries
Defeating supply-side economics with supply-side democracy
One of the terms with which Republicans couch their conservative views is supply-side economics. It sounds innocent enough, but history since the “Reagan Revolution”
Noam Chomsky: On capitalism and why electing Bernie isn’t enough
In a recent interview in Jacobin, linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky gave an interesting answer to a question about the American capitalist system. He basically said