NYC to get $15 Minimum Wage in 2019 [Updated]
According to the New York Times, (now being reported by plenty of others) New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has hammered out an agreement with the state legislature to push the minimum wage in the city...
View ArticleSanders Campaign Insists on Their Right to Make the Same Mistakes That...
Yes, it’s true. In 2008, the Clinton campaign made many dumb moves. They miscounted delegates or merely ignored the fact that the contest was about winning delegates and fell decisively behind early....
View ArticleThere Is No Political Power in Not Voting
In the next couple days/weeks I expect we’ll see a lot of diaries and discussion about what Clinton (no Sanders! no DWS! no Jeff Weaver! BBB! Bobswern!) needs to do to unify the party/mollify the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Hillary Clinton Seen Palling Around With USAG's Boss
That’s right! The man who Attorney General Loretta Lynch reports to, the person who appointed her to that position, President Barack Obama, has been seen together with Hillary Clinton who — I remind...
View ArticleTrump was hand-picked to beat Hillary Clinton
There’s been some discussion of how damaging FBI Director Comey’s announcement that Clinton should not be indicted will be (or should be) for Clinton’s campaign. The general consensus is that it should...
View ArticlePitting Trump-ism Against Republican-ism Will Shred the GOP
There’s been plenty of reaction to today’s speech from Hillary Clinton. This diary is only tangentially about that speech. Since the convention, Clinton has been hammering home the message that Donald...
View ArticleWhy Trump Picked Pence (And Why Clinton Picked Kaine) On Display In Last...
Pence was not Trump’s choice for VP (that would be Ivanka). He had his arm twisted by the GOP leadership. They told him he needed a traditional Republican on the ticket to mollify the donors and assure...
View ArticleEcuador Cut Off Assange's Internet
So some noise was made overnight about poor Julian Assange not having access to the internet as he hides in an Ecuadorian embassy in London. Much speculation that US covert ops or some other nefarious...
View ArticleWhere Are Donald Trump's Tax Returns
Donald Trump flat lied about releasing his tax returns. He will never do it. And, going forward, no candidate will ever do so again.Simply because there’s no penalty for not releasing your tax returns....
View ArticleHillary Clinton is This Election's Agent of Change
Hillary Clinton is the agent of change in this election. The media narrative about “change” elections like this one is that the Presidency switches parties because the voters want to go in a new...
View ArticleTrump's Going to Name a Wall Street Hedge Fund Manager to Run Treasury
Who didn’t see this coming?Trump is going to drain the swamp using snakes as his subcontractors.Per the LA TimesSteven Mnuchin, 53, a wealthy Wall Street executive and successful film financier who...
View ArticleHow To Cover the Next Election
Kos has a great rant up where he lays the sources of his deep frustration and anger over the outcome of this election. I can’t say I disagree with anything in the list. We should have been able to win...
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