Articles Tagged “Republican National Convention”
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The Shame Of America’s Two-Party Duopoly
BY RALPH NADER The Republican and Democratic Conventions are mercifully over but their corrosive impacts on our democracy persist. First, did you know that taxpayers helped fund these conventions at a level of $100 million for logistics and police sequestrations of demonstrators in Tampa and Charlotte and an additional $18.2 million each for general convention [...]
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He Kept Us Safe?
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The Elephant Show
BY SHARON MARTIN We’ve chosen our candidates in state primaries, so why do we even need conventions? Seems like a waste of good money to me. Maybe it fires up the party faithful, but aren’t those votes secure already? It might be entertainment, at least, if it all weren’t just so scary. In the first [...]
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What Republicans Want
BY KENNY BELFORD This information is not opinion, it’s now fact. At the Republican Convention they created their official platform that their candidates are running on. The issues, and their positions on them, are now official and made public. I’ll share some of the highlights with you [shown in italics] from the Associated Press article, [...]
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Bad Immigration Ideas From All Directions
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