Donald Trump: A Problem Even for Conservatives The bully of the playground continued to be in the media spotlight and charging ahead to the Republican nomination for president. In the 11th Republican debate, Donald Trump, bold and arrogant as always, kept up the attack against his three remaining opponents. To the man who once delighted in…
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Raging Chicken Interview with PA Senate Candidate, John Fetterman: Inequality is THE Issue
Raging Chicken Interview with PA Senate Candidate, John Fetterman: Inequality is THE Issue Earlier today, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Fetterman who’s running for the Democratic Party nomination for the PA Senate. Last night, Fetterman took part in a debate at the Keystone Progress Summit with the two other Democratic party candidates,…
“Fund Our Schools!” “Fund Or Fail!” Those were among the chants that filled the Capitol rotunda today as about 450 students from all of the 14 universities of the PA State System of Higher Education converged in Harrisburg to demand full funding for their schools. After experiencing the deepest cuts in the history of the…
Bernie and Hillary Splitting Iowa Delegates – Clinton Slight Edge From Coin Tosses
Bernie and Hillary Splitting Iowa Delegates – Clinton Slight Edge From Coin Tosses It’s after midnight now and the official winner of the Democratic Iowa Caucuses is still “too close to call” according to all the media outlets. We know that Ted Cruz topped Trump to take the GOP side of the contest, but there seems…
Excited for Democracy: Iowa Caucuses, Philly Teachers Election, and Friedrichs
Excited for Democracy: Iowa Caucuses, Philly Teachers Election, and Friedrichs I’ve got to admit, I’m excited. The Iowa Caucuses a I am in full political geek mode. As messed up as our political system is, I still get super excited about the REAL beginning of the presidential election cycle – when people, not pundits get to cast…
Sarah Palin’s Quixotic Quest for Relevance
Sarah Palin’s Quixotic Quest for Relevance She’s back and tightly holding Donald Trump’s coattails. That’s right, Sarah Palin, having again found the media spotlight, is casting her shadow across the more thoughtful conservatives. This past week she declared her undying love and support of Trump’s attempt to seize the presidency from the more experienced and knowledgeable…
A Model of Unionization We Can No Longer Afford: Philly Teachers to Decide Future
A Model of Unionization We Can No Longer Afford: Philly Teachers to Decide Future Yesterday, current Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president, Jerry Jordan, made an appearance on the Rick Smith Show to discuss the union’s upcoming, contested election. Jordan and much of his leadership team are facing a significant challenge from the Caucus of Working Educators, group…
Blustery Donald Trump vs. The Quiet Christian
Blustery Donald Trump vs. The Quiet Christian Before a cheering and whooping crowd in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Donald Trump, spewing the blustery rhetoric of a demagogue, declared that the United States should ban all Muslims from entering the country. He claimed to have Muslim friends who supported his position. He claimed that Muslims want “to change…
Bernie Sanders Launches Webisodes as Part of Presidential Campaign
Bernie Sanders Launches Webisodes as Part of Presidential Campaign Yesterday, Bernie Sanders launched the first “webisode” outlining the principles of his campaign. The move by Sanders’s campaign calls to mind the incredibly successful short videos released by Robert Reich which have made a significant contribution in popularizing a progressive economic analysis and making sense of mind-spinning…
Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era
Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled,“The Negro in the Class Struggle.”…
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