Tag Archives: Republicans

Brighter Children, Brighter Future

Education is a vital aspect of any democratic country. The reason it is so important is because citizens make the major decisions. If those decisions are made by uneducated individuals then the consequences can be dire. If a resident hasn’t been taught about their political and economic systems or how to critically think for themselves […]

Uninsured America

The above image comes from a New York Times article analyzing the number of people in each county in the United States who lack health insurance. Before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was rolled out in 2013, nearly the entire map was dark blue because nearly 20% of all Americans lacked any kind of health […]

American Fascism

In recent weeks, another Republican challenger, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, has been surging in Republican primary polls. In the most recent Iowa polls, he has even taken the lead from business mogul, Donald Trump. Despite his lack of political experience or any real credentials as a serious candidate, Carson has not had difficulty in finding […]

Too Little, Too Late

It seems like the Republican and Democratic candidates have caught the smell of change in the air. Suddenly, everyone from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to Jeb Bush and Donald Trump are talking about tax reform. They have clued in, maybe too late, that Americans are more than fed up with the state of our […]

Wall Street Loves Illegals

Thanks to Donald Trump, immigration has become a hot button issue in this election. Immigration is always a contentious problem in the United States, with legalities, economics, compassion, and, yes, some racism all coming together to make for very heated arguments. However, the debate has been ratcheted up to a new level of tension this […]

Martin Shkreli is not the problem

One of the biggest items in the news this week is the story of Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager who started a pharmaceutical company, purchased the US marketing rights to a 62 year old life-saving drug called Daraprim, and then promptly raised the price from $13.50/pill to $750/pill. While Mr. Shkreli has been […]

Health Care Compromises

It is no secret that most people throughout our country are dissatisfied with the state of health care in America. Our health care system has been a mess for decades. We pay more for our health care system than any other country in the world, but Americans have worse health outcomes than nearly any other […]

Trump is Costing Us

Once again, the news cycle is obsessing over Donald Trump. This time, the Republican made the mistake of responding to a question about his history of sexist treatment of women by aggressively attacking the female debate moderator with sexist comments. So, of course, that is all the media will talk about for the next week, […]

Reinvest in America

Many of the current crop of presidential hopefuls have been talking about the economy. The Democrats like to talk about how their party saved the economy, the Republicans like to talk about how the Democrats have ruined the economy for the past six years, and all of them love to talk about how they are […]

Where is the backbone?

The 2016 presidential election season is in full swing now, with Hillary Clinton riding high as if she’s already won the Democratic nomination despite her sinking numbers and the rising support for other Democrats like Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, more than a dozen contenders have piled into the Republican clown car, many of them blatantly and […]

We Don’t Want a Dynasty

The national conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties may still be more than a year away, but the news media would have us believe that the nominees have already been selected. Pundit after pundit and columnist after columnist have declared that the 2016 Presidential election will be a titanic battle between two of America’s […]

What is outsourcing?

It has been decades now that Americans have been worried about outsourcing. Starting in the 1960s, American corporations began closing factories and plants in the United States and moving them elsewhere, costing untold millions of Americans their jobs. As a result of this practice, the American middle class has been collapsing in on itself – […]

Bush Criticizes Obama

Last Saturday, former President George W. Bush attended a fundraising event for the presidential campaign of his brother, Jeb Bush, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. At this meeting, former President Bush delivered a series of harsh criticisms of his successor Barack Obama’s record in the Middle East. Wealthy donors from the Republican Jewish […]

Cutting Social Security

Last week, in a speech delivered on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared his intention to cut Social Security benefits across the board. He has received praise and accolades from wealthy conservatives who believe that Social Security is a waste of money and that this program, which millions of […]

Political Dynasties

There is a very good chance that the 2016 Presidential Election ballot will look identical to the 1992 Presidential ballot. While right now, more than a year from the election, it is too early to say for certain who the nominees of the two mainstream parties will be, it seems likely that voters on November […]

Treason in Congress?

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was reelected in a surprise landslide victory. Israeli pollsters were predicting his right wing Likud party would come in second place to the centrist Zionist Union party, and are crediting his surprise victory with a blitz of media appearances he made in the final days before the […]

Closing Guantanamo

One of President Barack Obama’s first actions after being sworn in as president in January of 2009 was to sign an executive order directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut down its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. This closure never happened, both because of Congress’s reluctance […]

Iran Talks

On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed Congress on the subject of Iran. American diplomats, including Secretary of State John Kerry, have been engaged in negotiations with Iran over Iran’s desire to develop nuclear energy and, many believe, nuclear weapons. President Obama’s government is trying to find a way to […]

They Hate America

Last week, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani declared his belief that President Obama does not love America. At a private fundraising dinner for Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker, Giuliani said, “I do not believe – and I know this is a horrible thing to say – but I do not believe that the president […]

Funding the DHS

We are living in extremely dangerous times. It seems like hardly a day goes by without a new threat or a new terrorist action somewhere in the world. There was the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, in which Islamic terrorists stormed a Parisian newspaper office, murdering journalists and political cartoonists, while a separate gunman attacked […]

Obama’s ISIS Plan

While it has fallen out of the news cycle to some degree in recent months, the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State or ISIS has suddenly regained the media’s attention. With the incredibly barbaric and brutal murder of captured Jordanian fighter pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, and the reported death of American hostage Kayla Mueller, […]

Obama’s Budget

This week, President Obama introduced his budget plan for the next ten years. In this budget, the president created a wish list of government policies that sound too good to be true. The unfortunate fact is that these policies are too good to be true. They are simply another deception in the false Demo-Republican rivalry, […]

Failing Security

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how our current government in the United States has bent over backwards to appease the world’s bullies, like Russia, rather than standing up for what is right. In that post, I mentioned the provocative and dangerous Russian act of aggression against a United States Navy warship, the guided missile […]

Dysfunctional Government

On November 20, 2014, President Obama issued an historic executive order intended to provide relief to thousands of families who are struggling with our broken immigration system. Many Republican critics are declaring that the president’s executive order is unconstitutional and that they are going to do everything they can to counter this action when the […]

Immigration Reform

One of the biggest issues facing America today is the question of immigration reform. Every year, roughly one million immigrants are granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. However, at any given time, there are over 11 million immigrants living and often working illegally in the United States. Our government attempts to deport as […]

Good Cop/Bad Cop

As a two party system, our government naturally falls into an adversarial dynamic. With alternative, outside viewpoints being so rare, the Democrats and Republicans define themselves by their opposition to each other. The parties work together so rarely that the ability to pass legislation seems to depend almost entirely on one party having a majority […]