Why FL just got High Speed Rail
As a Pinellas County native, I have been waiting 25 years for the announcement heard today: $1.25 billion would be granted for construction of a Florida high speed rail link. Estimated to cost $3.5...
View ArticleGood News for... Florida High Speed Rail!
Back in January 2010, I wrote a diary offering the political explanation for why Florida was granted $1.25 billion for a High Speed Rail line between Tampa and Orlando, as people understandably...
View ArticleProgressives win if Obama loses in 2012
Barack Obama has failed progressives in every arena. Although it'd be preferable to unseat Obama with a primary challenger in time for 2012, because none has stepped forward (tic toc...), it would be...
View ArticleCan Democrats Stop The "Bed-Wetting" over 2014?
So Charlie Cook has written that Democrats are in jeopardy of losing at least 10 (and as many as 13) Senate Seats in 2014. It's great copy. Democrats in Disarray! And that old Beltway trope has...
View ArticleGenocides do not begin with killing. They begins with words.
Words matter.Growing up Jewish, although not really that religiously so, the Holocaust has always been a part of my life. From the earliest memories of Hebrew School and Sunday School, there was the...
View ArticleDon't forget Hillary won on the economy, too.
(Please note this topic was diaried by RETIII last week, but I feel the issue’s importance deserves much additional discussion)As we’re forced to genuflect to the latest round of bitter recriminations...
View ArticleWhat Early Nazi History Can Teach Us About Treating Trump Supporters
The iconic photograph was taken by Mrs. Rachel Posner in 1931, from her window in Kiel, Germany. Rachel Posner was the wife of the town’s Rabbi, Akiva Boruch Posner. From the Posner’s grandson(1):“It...
View ArticleWhy the Media normalizes Trump, and how we fight back.
Trump has been President for 58 days. Usually the peak honeymoon period, the Trump “Administration” has been such a rolling disaster, it’s easy to lose sight of the imminent and grave danger we all now...
View ArticleIt's not enough for Democrats just to filibuster Neil Gorsuch
The conventional wisdom among center and left pundits at the time of Gorsuch’s nomination a few weeks ago was that the rascally Mitch McConnell had successfully nabbed a SCOTUS seat from President...
View ArticleThe Alt-Left is Now Embracing Antisemitism.
It isn’t news that the Trump Administration has an antisemitism problem(1). In the pantheon of Trump horrors, it’s easy to forget the rise of antisemitic violence; the blatantly antisemitic closing...
View ArticleThe WaPo Asks: Just What is Bernie Sanders Thinking?
In the Wake of the contentious election for DNC Chair that saw the perfectly accomplished and highly qualified progressive and Sanders-backed frontrunner U.S. Representative Keith Ellison lose in the...
View ArticleWhat level of compensation for a black man are some liberals okay with?
President Obama’s honorariums and book deals are still in the news. From Daniel Gross: The news that former President Barack Obama will reportedly accept $400,000 to give a speech to Wall Street...
View ArticleWant Single Payer? Work to Save Obamacare
Senate Republicans delayed their Obamacare repeal vote until after the July 4th Recess. If activists are foolish enough to hope that delay really does mean demise this time (ignoring the painful lesson...
View ArticleNow Democrats Need to Get Serious About Single Payer
Today, Republicans voted to… do something(1). That something may amount to nothing, or rob 32 million people of their healthcare. I recently wrote that preserving Obamacare is key to obtaining a more...
View ArticleNo, Nina. Something is wrong with Democrats who don't think of the consequences.
Nina Turner, three-term state senator of Ohio, President of Our Revolution, and arbiter of winning elections, has imposed a new litmus test on Democrats: Support Single Payer now (or else):“Any...
View ArticleRussia stooges on the Left go to even greater lengths to cover up the attack...
You may have heard about the release of a stunning new report (supposedly) proving that the intrusion into the DNC’s e-mail system was not perpetrated by hackers acting on Russia’s (and the Trump...
View ArticleBloomberg: Trump Hatches Desperate Scheme to Resurrect Obamacare Repeal
This will be a short diary, but Bloomberg is reporting on the latest desperate scheme to resurrect Obamacare repeal, because it’s more important for Trump to have a win than however many people you...
View ArticleGallup daily tracker tanks in wake of Charlottesville
It's always hard to tell if there's truly a cause behind fluctuations in daily tracking polls outside the margin of error, but today, Trump registers his lowest approval (34%) and highest disapproval...
View ArticleSorry, but yes, there is an alt-left. And they owe us all an apology.
There must be pie.In response to the tragedy in Charlottesville that saw the death of Heather Heyer, Markos issued the following tweet: xAnyone still pretending last year's election was about "economic...
View ArticleHave we reached a tipping point in Putin Apologism on the Left?
Did you hear the one about how the DNC hack was an inside job?Back in August, I wrote about certain figures on the left going to even greater lengths to apologize for Russia’s assault on our...
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