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Emma Gonzalez

Time for students to patronize adults; not the other way around

February 27, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Democracy, Education, Guns, Human Rights, Justice Leave a comment

So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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Greitens with gun

Greitens illustrates why the mental health diagnoses won’t work

February 23, 2018 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Crime/Violence, Guns, Mental Health Leave a comment

One of the excuses de jour of why to not enact stringent gun controls is that the problems would be solved if guns were

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Can we please not start with, “I believe in the Second Amendment”

February 21, 2018 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Constitution, Crime/Violence, Guns, Violence Leave a comment

It’s an outlier. It is essentially unrelatable to the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights or anything else in the U.S. Constitution.

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Francis Horton

What a Hell of a Way to Organize: An Interview With Francis Horton

February 14, 2018 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Guns, Military, War One comment

(reprinted from Midwest Socialist) Francis Horton is that rarest of U.S. soldiers: a leftist and self-identifying socialist. Born in Missouri in 1983, he joined

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DACA

Trump’s SOTU DACA dis: All Americans are Dreamers

January 31, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, Immigration, Refugees, Trump One comment

Buried in the 90-minute smorgasbord of exaggerations, lies, false conflations and middle-school platitudes passed off as a State of the Union Address on Jan.

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Pritzker

What’s wrong with this picture?

January 31, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Corruption, Democrats, Government, Politics Leave a comment

Well, yes, it’s not the clearest photo of all time, but that’s because it’s taken from a television screen. But if you wanted a

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Obstructionist

Don’t lose the forest from trees with the shutdown

January 23, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Congress, Democracy, Politics, Republican Brain One comment

This is mainly about Mitch McConnell and the archaic rules of Congress. But first let’s give a kudo to Chuck Schumer and the other

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Truth-Lies

Leaders Who Lie: The Sorting Hat

January 19, 2018 James Wilson 2016 Election, Campaigns, Community/Common good, Corruption, Democracy, Government, Politics, Trump One comment

President Trump began his Presidency by falsely asserting that his Inaugural crowd was larger than Obama’s, a claim easily refuted by comparing aerial photographs

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Fresh Air

Tom Steyer: The Fresh Air of Politics without Begging for Money

January 18, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Corruption, Democracy, Good government, Money & Politics, Politics, Voting/Elections One comment

One of the refreshing things about going to Tom Steyer’s “Need to Impeach” web site is that there is no “DONATE” button. He wants

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Income Disparity

Is it my hang-up, or society’s, that we are so tolerant of poverty?

January 16, 2018 Arthur Lieber Capitalism, Charity & Justice, Democracy, Republican Brain, Social Sec/Medicare One comment

As is self-evident, Republicans are gung-ho on cutting taxes because there is very little that government does that they truly value. The bigger the

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