Fighting Fire with Cash: How Liberals are Playing into the Koch Brother...
One thing is clear: the value of the vote is being marginalized with every independent expenditure flashing through the airwaves, filling our ears and eyes with caustically meaningless drivel. And...
View ArticleRant: On Welfare
As comedian Jon Stewart correctly noted on The Daily Show, Fox News and its followers have gone mad over "entitlements," and how the country has become a "handout nation" full of despicable slackers...
View Article#IStandWithColbert and #IStandWithSuey but #IDon'tStandWithIgnorance
Slate has dedicated some efforts to discussing the intriguing controversy of Colbert's Wednesday, March 26 episode, wherein he made a joke about just how disingenuous the owner of the Washington...
View ArticlePlanetary Personhood
Natural rights theory relies on the idea that human beings, being born into the world, have a set of inherent natural rights stemming from labor and self-defense. These include the right to bear arms,...
View ArticleMonsanto's Money Modifies Politics
In July of 2013, the non-partisan National Institute on Money in State Politics issued a report focusing on contributions from agricultural giant Monsanto. Monsanto made over $600,000 in contributions...
View ArticleTell Honolulu City Council: Solve Homelessness, Don't Hide It
Homelessness is gripping the country in the wake of the great recession. The Honolulu City Council is indicating that it'd rather support the Hawaii Tourism Authority than the Hawaiians who have been...
View ArticleWhy Scott Walker's Union-ISIS Comparison Doesn't Shock Me
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is drowning in his own words, having stated that if he can stop union protesters in Wisconsin, he can handle ISIS. A lot has been said about this subject already, but I...
View ArticleCapitalism's Last Defense
American history is riddled with disingenuous moments wherein leaders, seeing their preferred system of capitalism threatened by bottom-up production, give the smallest concession to expanded liberty...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Economic Agenda for America
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a 12-step plan to revitalize the American economy last December, which has gotten fairly little attention. The self-proclaimed socialist, who is considering a 2016...
View ArticleI am Not Ready for Hillary
I really hope that Hillary Clinton, by some mercy bestowed upon us by an act of Fate or whatever, decides not to run for president. I know, I know, you've been ready since 2008, just seizing with...
View ArticleThink About the White People?!
Hanging out in your dorm room, paid for by your parents, your feet encased in your parents' shoes, kicked up on your parents' coffee table, tapping away on your Mac Book Pro, you see something that...
View ArticleWhere is the Outrage over Corporate Welfare? Follow The Money
Forbes published an article by David Brunori centered around "corporate welfare" entitled "Where is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?" which raises valid concerns about corporations siphoning...
View ArticleEverett, WA Solved Homelessness
It’s official: the Everett City Council wins the award for adaptive solutions to poverty. The passage of Ordinance CB 1509-40 represents a major breakthrough in legislative success stories: four...
View ArticleWA Rep. Jay Rodne Must Resign (Petition)
SIGN THE PETITION CALLING FOR AN APOLOGY & RESIGNATIONAfter the November 13 attacks in Paris, many elected officials in the United States have come out firmly opposed to Islam and the admittance of...
View ArticleTell Donald Trump: Suspend Your Presidential Campaign Now
TELL TRUMP TO SUSPEND HIS CAMPAIGN NOW!!!Donald Trump is racist, xenophobic, and violent. We must demand that he remove himself from the public sphere. After the November 13 attacks in Paris, many...
View ArticleIdaho Governor Disgraces Statehouse with Xenophobia
The large acceptance of racist and xenophobic language is encouraging violence against minority populations. On November 23rd, white supremacists shot five black lives matter protesters in Minneapolis...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Criticized for Doing Twitter
Earlier today, Ian Millhiser wrote an article for ThinkProgress entitled, “Why Bernie Sanders’ Misinformed Supreme Court Tweet Matters.” As a Bernie supporter, and a student of the law, the title...
View ArticleDoes Bernie Really Get More Outside Support Than Rivals?
Today, a very respected campaign finance journalist for the New York Times published a piece with a provocative headline: "Bernie Sanders Tops his Rivals in Use of Outside Money." Based on in-house...
View ArticleClinton Veers Left in New Website
Today, I hopped onto the interwebs just to see Hillary Clinton in her latest slide to the left. In a last ditch effort to make her campaign seem more amenable to the populist Left, Clinton came out...
View ArticleClinton Caught Deceiving Self, Voters
The Clinton camp is currently lined up behind a buffet of crow. Just earlier this day, a Clinton supporter wrote an article about how Bernie Sanders was yet again caught deceiving voters. Earlier this...
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