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It’s The Delegates, Stupid!

Columnists Susan Estrich - March 11, 2016 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Whenever I hear some otherwise smart person explain to me how Joe Biden is going to march in and become the Democratic nominee, or how “they” – whoever they are – are going to come in and save the Republican Party from Donald Trump, I pretty much know that person has never been to a convention or met a delegate, let alone tried to convince one to be for someone other than […]

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For Honest Conservatives, The Only Answer Is #NeverTrump

Columnists Joe Conason - March 4, 2016 0

BY JOE CONASON From his opening slur against Mexicans to his current coddling of the Ku Klux Klan, Donald Trump has shaped the Republican presidential race into a character test for conservatives. For months, too many of the country’s most prominent figures on the right have failed to respond adequately to the threat he embodies. Yet now, as Trump seems favored to clinch the GOP nomination, a growing cohort of principled Republicans is forthrightly proclaiming […]

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Republican ‘Takers’ Take Down The Establishment

Columnists Froma Harrop - March 4, 2016 0

BY FROMA HARROP Just as Donald Trump did a Super Tuesday stomp on the Republican establishment, the establishment showed why it deserved the rough treatment. The Republican Senate leadership yet again announced its refusal to consider anyone President Obama nominates for the Supreme Court until after the presidential election. It is the job of the U.S. Senate to hold hearings on, and then accept or reject, the president’s choice. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and […]

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To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions

Columnists Jim Hightower - March 4, 2016 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The financial transaction tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in the last year of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to help us recover from the Great Depression. Today, 40 countries have FTTs, including the seven with the fastest-growing stock exchanges in the world. Eleven members of the European […]

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Hillary’s The One

Columnists Susan Estrich - March 3, 2016 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Can I say I was right? OK, half right. I was right about Bernie Sanders but not about Donald Trump, which is really too bad, because Trump is a whole lot scarier than Sanders. After all, Sanders has been a working and productive member of the U.S. Senate, while Trump emerged into the political spotlight by confusing Hawaii [where President Obama was born] with Mexico [whose residents, according to Trump, are rapists […]

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