With Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Paris Climate Accords, the revelation that Jared Kushner created a secret line of communication to talk with the Kremlin, and the disastrous repercussions of the NATO conference, the Purity Left only wants to talk about one thing – the ...read more
So, that's it. It's over. The last presidential primary has come and gone, with Hillary Clinton once again winning by a landslide in an area with a large minority population. This time it was Washington, DC, which had 20 delegates up for grabs. She completely overwhelmed Bernie ...read more
The weeks-long feud between Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and protesters from the #BlackLivesMatter movement culminated this weekend in yet another confrontation, this time at a Sanders rally in Seattle. The increasingly bitter rift, which took off at Netroots Nation a few weeks ...read more
With the routine killing of unarmed African Americans by the police, the Black Lives Matter movement could not be more important an issue right now. It should be at the forefront of any serious Presidential candidate's campaign, and anyone who does not address it appropriately ...read more
Based strictly upon his agenda, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would be a groundbreaking president, and in a general vote-your-conscience sense, he's definitely worthy of support from the activist left. Here are just a few of the reasons why: he supports single-payer healthcare; he ...read more
The following is a re-post of an article I published back in September. It seems appropriate this week given Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) announcement on Thursday. -- Apologies if you've heard this one before. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dials the customer service number for ...read more
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is about to make life very unpleasant for Hillary Clinton as she attempts to moonwalk to the Democratic nomination in 2016. The 73-year-old U.S. senator from Vermont is expected to make his candidacy official on Thursday. A self-described ...read more
You can't walk 10 feet in D.C. without running into a high-minded centrist extolling the virtues of moderation and reaching across the aisle. This way of thinking casts itself as above partisan nonsense and cloaks itself in intellectual rigor -- real, in the case of The New ...read more
If Hillary Clinton is to be believed (and she is probably not), she and her husband are the protagonists of the greatest rags to riches story in memory. Having exited the White House in 2001 "dead broke," the Clintons have since amassed a fortune of some $100 million, much of it ...read more
Apologies if you've heard this one before. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dials the customer service number for his cell provider. An automated voice on the other end says, "Press one for English and two for Spanish. Para Espanol, oprime el dos." Sanders replies, "Fine, but first ...read more
