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What we’ve learned from right wing reaction to Obama, and now Trump

December 15, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

On January 27, 1998, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky revelations, Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show and said, “The great story

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Obama could take a page out of Fiorina’s playbook on Syria

November 17, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Foreign Policy, History, Military, Obama Leave a comment

Well, not exactly. But there is something interesting that Carly Fiorina says about budgeting for the federal government that might be helpful in reassessing

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Noam Chomsky: On capitalism and why electing Bernie isn’t enough

October 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Activism, Banks, Climate Change, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Obama Leave a comment

    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

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Media does for Bernie Sanders what it never did for Dennis Kucinich

October 16, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, Good government, Health care, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

The first question that Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders was, “A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the

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Obama presidential library

Obama’s presidential library: Excessively expensive

August 30, 2015 Arthur Lieber Obama Leave a comment

We have learned a great deal about our former presidents from what they have done upon retirement. Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have

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Is Obama endorsing Biden for President?

August 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Obama One comment

On August 24, White House press secretary Josh Earnest responded to reporters asking about Joe Biden possibly running for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton:  

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National Review compares Bernie Sanders to Nazis: Offensive and inaccurate

August 3, 2015 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Media, Obama, Republicans 2 comments

Commentators cannot seem to leave the memory of Nazi Germany alone. Nazi comparisons became especially heinous after the 2008 presidential election, when haters compared

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Nuclear agreement: There is no “better deal” with Iran

July 30, 2015 Steve Sorkin Foreign Policy, International, Obama, Politics Leave a comment

Those who think “a better deal” with Iran is possible are beyond just dreamers– they are dangerous and naive fantasizers. Believing that the US

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Iran Nuclear Deal too complicated for TV commercials

July 29, 2015 Arthur Lieber Climate Change, Foreign Policy, Labor and unions, Media, Obama, Politics, Public safety, Science, United Nations, War Leave a comment

A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the

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After TPP, Obama may have a tough time convincing some on Iran deal

July 17, 2015 Arthur Lieber Consumer issues, International, Obama Leave a comment

Like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the nuclear deal between Iran and five other countries including the United States is complicated, and the devil is

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