Republican Party

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Caution is in order, since that state is demographically not very much like the rest of the United States, and both candidates are Northeasterners with advantages there. US journalism dreams of a presidential election […]

Republican Party

Would Trump or Cruz be worst President ever? & Why Jimmy Carter’s Answer will Surprise you

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By Ana Kasparian & John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Who would be worse for America as President, Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? Former President Jimmy Carter weighed in on the question of Trump vs Cruz. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it […]

Republican Party

Parable of the Elephant (GOP Pathologies)

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Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World Cartoon ) | – – Via Jamiol’s World . Wikipedia notes: “Rumi, the 13th Century Persian poet and teacher of Sufism, included it in his Masnavi. In his retelling, “The Elephant in the Dark”, some Hindus bring an elephant to be exhibited in a dark room. A number of […]

Featured

5 Worst Foreign Policy Moments of GOP New Hampshire Debate

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The New Hampshire GOP debate’s most charged moments were probably more domestic, as with Chris Christie putting Marco Rubio in his place as not having actually done anything and as overly reliant on his single script. But inevitably with this gang, war, torture and sundry mayhem […]

Plutocracy

Rubio wants to give each millionaire $220K by Eliminating Taxes on Stock Earnings

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Chuck Collins | Inequality.org | – – Bad tax policy ideas never die, they just get recycled. The latest retread is GOP candidate Marco Rubio’s proposal to entirely eliminate taxes on capital gains income. A preferential tax rate on capital gains has always been a staple of GOP tax policy. But only the brazen few […]

Bernie Sanders

Foreign Policy Winners and Losers in Iowa

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iowa Caucus voters likely voted mainly on domestic policy issues, though security and terrorism have been a big part of the campaigns as well. Now that the smoke is clearing, it is worth considering the foreign policy implications of the winners of the primary. Iowan […]

Far Right

Also-Ran Trump urges Thugs to Knock ‘the Crap’ out of Protesters, will cover Legal Fees

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump has encouraged his followers to commit violence before. Now he’s taking it up a notch, offering to pick up the tab for any lawsuits incurred while beating down protesters. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. “Republican presidential […]

Republican Party

Iowa Primary wins Predict Nothing: #Iowasowhite & doesn’t look like America

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By Donald Kaul | (Otherwords.org) | – – Who prevails in the Iowa caucuses won’t matter much, except in the fevered imaginations of the political reporters covering the spectacle. The Iowa caucuses are upon us. Hooray, whoopee, and two cheers. The contests mark the official beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign, which already feels like […]

Arab Americans

Anne Frank’s Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler

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TeleSur | – – Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as “bystanders” to the refugee crisis. Donald Trump is acting like another Adolf Hitler, Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister said in a column published by Newsweek […]