Elizabeth Warren: Let's talk about the *real* national emergencies
The Boston Globe reports:The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate was first asked about how — or if — she would use the executive power of the White House during an appearance on “The...
View ArticleSanders to campaign surrogates: "engage respectfully with our Democratic...
HuffPo has an email which Sen. Sanders has sent to ~100 of his supporters last night. You can read the whole thing via this link; here’s some key grafs:As surrogates who will be speaking on behalf of...
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I think we're all underestimating how popular Joe Biden will be
I am not writing this piece as a Joe Biden advocate. I believe he was a steady hand as Barack Obama’s vice president, and on balance he’s a great Democrat, but for a variety of reasons (ideology,...
View ArticleRepublican state rep ruins swearing-in of PA's first Muslim-American woman...
I was thrilled to work to help elect Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell in a special election earlier this month. After she lost her son to gun violence in 2013, she created the CHARLES Foundation, a...
View ArticleSCOTUS grants stay of execution to protect Buddhist's equal rights in the...
Sometimes, the sequel is markedly better than the original.You may remember the hue and cry barely two months ago when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, denied an application...
View ArticleIn kickoff speech, Cory Booker pushes pragmatic progressive results over purity
I’ll provide a link to the full video below, but one portion of Cory Booker’s hometown kickoff rally in Newark from Saturday really struck me as providing something different in this field. “Newark has...
View ArticleTo understand Biden's support, listen to African American voters.
Almost two months ago, I wrote a diary titled "I think we're all underestimating how popular Joe Biden will be," talking about contemporaneous polling suggesting that Democratic primary voters were...
View ArticleTrump State Department fighting to deny birthright citizenship to one of two...
Equal means equal, unless you’re dealing with the Trump administration. And especially when you’re dealing with immigration. But this, however, is going to require a bit of set-up for me to explain.In...
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Biden, Warren feeling California Love in new LA Times/UC Berkeley poll;...
I’ll let the LA Times explain:The findings from a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, done for The Times, provide bad news for some of the contenders, starting with Sen. Kamala...
View ArticleSupreme Court effectively grandfathers in most older religious displays on...
On a publicly owned traffic circle in Bladensburg, Maryland, sits a 32-foot-high Latin cross, erected almost a century ago as a memorial to the World War I dead of Prince George’s County. Today’s 7-2...
View ArticleTheir districts voted for Trump. These freshmen still voted to impeach. We...
They did it. They really did it. This was the toughest vote they may ever have to take, the solemn vote to impeach a president and place him on the path to potential removal from office.And it was an...
View ArticleCould rogue electors swing the results of a presidential election? (My Phila...
So I wrote this, and it was printed yesterday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Based on fair use, I can give you the opening here:On Nov. 3, Pennsylvania voters will cast votes for president. About five...
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