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As bad as Obama's eight year tenure may have been, the well meaning incompetence, naive mismanagement, and embarrassing diplomacy of his presidency pales next to the rolling dumpster fire of Donald Trump's moral turpitude, naked crony corporatism, and manifest legal malfeasance.
The Trumplican's argument as to why labor force participation hasn't increased? It's too hard, because Baby Boomers.
Clearly, in many ways, we are every bit as flawed today as we were when the first rosy light of the morning of September 11th, 2001 dawned upon Manhattan seventeen years ago, but, honestly, shouldn't we be better?
Paul Manafort, long time confidant and 2016 campaign manager for president Donald Trump, has finally rolled.
Why are these entitled, thin-skinned, red capped, Republican Party goons so triggered?
America bids farewell to John McCain, a man who played it straight until the end, gaining the respect of both his allies and his rivals.
[T]here's no more reason to believe that arbitrarily raising the minimum wage will elevate the poor to economic security than throwing them off of a building will teach them to fly.
The two World Wars fundamentally changed America and the world, in ways that we are still trying to understand, and the Boomers grew up in an America at ideological war with much of the rest of the world.
For the pseudo-intellectual jerks and the pop-con punditry actually morally credulous enough to believe Alex Jones is entitled to spew his stupidity on any platform he wants, here's a refresher on how freedom of speech and freedom of association actually work.
Once upon a short while ago, Republicans feigned acceptance of these principles as properly basic, but now it seems they professed these beliefs in vain.
No matter what the president, his cronies, or his rowdy mob of gormless buffoons say or do, the fact of the matter remains that the "Russia thing" isn't going anywhere.
In American parlance, however, the gist of all great Chinese works is neatly, if bluntly, summarized with the English truism: The tone is set from the top.
Seriously, though, why does it seem like a good idea to entrust political franchise to people who can't even accurately answer what the candidates on the ballot are expected to do?
When our leaders can be no more trusted than can practically any wretch sobering up in a drunk tank anywhere in America, where are we as a country?
When was the last time you read it? Today.
This "great" America was a myth. A lie. A fabrication. There was nothing about America that made it "great". It was something that was missing: competition.
[O]ne thing Trump is very good at is claiming responsibility for the things that are going right for the United States economy, but these claims don't actually hold up to any rigorous scrutiny.
While it is reasonable to seek to control the border and to have a just immigration policy that balances the needs of the individual against the realities of national security, those who take the Word and twist it to justify unconscionable terror tactics against mothers and their children befitting the worst villains of the Bible shall pay a price, as will all those who support them while they do so.
In many ways, Feminism now, more than ever, faces the same awful situation that faces American Conservatism.
The philosophical goal many mislabel as "western culture" is, at its most basic, the tireless pursuit of truth.
Liberty is For The Win 