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Trump Continues to Disparage Our Veterans & Military Heroes |
For Political Reasons, Trump Bullies GOP into Opposing Bipartisan Border Solution - updated |
GOP Now Refuses to Support Your Right to Use Birth Control |
Unlike Trump, Biden Delivers on Infrastructure Promise - updated |
Trump Continues to Lose Support from His White House Team, Including Mike Pence |
Sorry, Trump Repeatedly Showed No Respect for Our Veterans - updated |
Job Growth Under Biden Continues to Out-Perform Expectations - updated |
GOP-Leaning States Have Highest Gun Violence - Some More Than Chicago |
2023 Vote: Dems, Choice, & Democracy Continue to Do Well |
EV Battery Life Longer than Thought |
Construction of U.S. Factories is Booming Under Biden |
Did Trump Even Steal His MAGA Slogan? From Bill Clinton? |
Democrats Are Delivering for Michigan...So GOP Tries Recall |
Expanding Medicaid Helps Rural America -- N.C. Signs Up, But When Will Mississippi? |
Boebert Embarasses Herself Again - This Time On Public Urination |
Alex Jones Found Guilty of Sandy Hook Lies - Owes Plaintiffs $980m |
2022: What Red Wave? GOP Barely Wins House, Dems/Freedom/Democracy Prevail Elsewhere |
Trump Takes the Fifth in Criminal Investigation |
America Approves of Schumer-Manchin Bill, But GOP Still Votes No |
CIA Kills Zawahiri, 9/11 Mastermind |
Did Gorsuch & Kavanaugh Lie to Congress about Roe vs. Wade? |
Oil Execs Blame Wall Street for High Gas Prices, They Don't Blame Biden |
Biden Isn't Messing Around on Cybersecurity - updated |
Biden/Blinken Rally NATO to Support Ukraine; Entire World Condemns Putin...Except Trump & Fox - updated |
Study: Trump's Trade War a Failure |
Best Stock Market Results One Year After Election Belongs to...Joe Biden |
Fox News Covid Policy for Employees: Get Vaccinated or Get Tested Daily |
FDA Fully Approves Covid Vaccine - No More Excuses? |
Former CPAC Head Says GOP Now a Cult: They Wouldn't Even Elect Reagan |
Dems Pass Biden's Covid Relief Bill; GOP Votes No |
Trump Encourages Seditious Mob, Won't Stop Violence, Gets Impeached |
Biden Wins Presidency; Trump Pouts, Promotes Baseless Fraud Conspiracies |
FBI Director Says White Supremacists are Biggest US Terror Threat, Russia is Helping Trump, No Signs of Voter Fraud |
Sorry, Trump Dislikes Our Veterans |
Biden Won't Defund the Police, but Trump's Budget Does |
Biden Helped Save the U.S. Auto Industry, but Pence Voted No |
Will GOP Ever Fix Our Infrastructure? |
Even Trump's Sister Disses Him |
Lincoln Project's Ads Skewer Trump |
GOP's Perdue Was Proud to Send American Jobs to China |
Eric Cantor Calls Joe Biden 'Awesome' |
Powerful Long-Time Lindsey Graham Supporter Says "Not This Year" |
Trump Culture of Hate Trickles Down in GOP: AOC Accosted on Capitol Steps |
Was Breaking Up a Peaceful Protest to Stage a Photo Op the Last Straw? |
Bush Calls for Unity During Pandemic, but Trump Tries to Pick a Fight |
Clint Eastwood Endorses Bloomberg |
Mayor Pete's Health Plan Saves $'s |
GOP, Conservatives, Evangelicals Who Support Trump Impeachment |
Trump Foundation Shut Down by NY Atty Genl for Illegal Actions - updated |
2019 Elections: Dems Take Virginia Assembly, KY & Louisiana Guv Races |
What? Fox's Tucker Carlson Likes Elizabeth Warren's Economic Plan? |
Is this why Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorsed Trump? |
Beto Pays El Paso, Trump Doesn't |
Kentucky GOP Chickens Out: Uninvites AOC to Coal Country |
Reagan's Budget Chief Calls Trump "Unhinged Madman" |
Trump Insults Allies, Cozies Up to Communist Dictator, and Gets Played...Again |
Even Fox Calls Out Trump's Lies About the Mexican Border Wall |
George H. W. Bush: A Retrospective |
2018 Blue Wave: Dems, Min Wage, Healthcare, Democracy Win Big |
Don't Look Now, But Trump Doesn't Like Southerners Either |
Right-to-Work Defeated by Missouri Voters - Bigly! |
Russian Hackers Penetrate U.S. Power Grid |
Is "Medicare for All" Gaining Momentum? - updated |
Anti-Immigrant Activists Should Check Their Own Family History First |
Trump Tries Claiming He Can Pardon Himself - Why, Unless He's Guilty? |
Tillerson's Concerns About Truth & Ethics Seen as Swipe at Trump |
Uh-oh: Carter Draws Bigger Crowd than Trump at Liberty Commencement |
Will Agriculture Pay the Price for Trump's Trade War? |
Tillerson Fired Via Tweet - Weak!! (Was Russia the Tipping Point?) |
Kochs Contribute $500k to Paul Ryan After Tax Bill Passes |
Missouri Gov. Greitens Admits Affair - Will Evangelicals Still Support Him? |
Gates, Buffett, & Now Bloomberg Have Doubts About Trump Tax Plan |
"Deal Maker" Trump Botches Another Opportunity: This Time It's Jerusalem |
Bannon Loves Roy Moore, But Why Does the Senate GOP? |
2017 Election Results: Dems Win Big |
Starting Day 1, Trump Already Hurting Many Who Voted For Him - updated |
Arpaio Pardon Shows Trump's Contempt for Rule of Law |
Even GOP Leaders Criticize Trump Comments on Va Violence |
Fox Downplays Story of Iowa Cop Killer Who Backed Trump |
ACA Helping to Reduce Bankruptcies |
House GOP Rejects "Buy American" Provisions |
McConnell Admits (Sort of) that Coal Jobs Aren't Coming Back - Now What? |
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U.S. Factory Construction Booming Under Biden
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As we'll explain in more detail, this favorable trend in private-sector construction can be directly attributed to three major economic bills proposed by President Biden and passed by the 2021-2022 Democratic Congress: the Semiconductor (CHIPS) bill, the Infrastructure bill, and the Inflation Reduction Act. These bills included some direct spending, but also contained tax breaks and other incentives for businesses as well as consumers. |
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| The Gun Conversation America Needs |
If U.S. Citizens can come to a consensus on two key questions regarding guns, the seemingly never ending argument over gun ownership may get resolved. |
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Martin Luther's Advice on Pandemics |
In 1527, Luther addressed how people should respond to the bubonic plague: If you promote your "independence" and won't use your God-given intelligence and medicines, God will not be pleased. |
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Upcoming Gun & Militaria Shows |
Looking for a gun show, military collectables, or political Americana show to attend? Here is a list of 2024 shows our readers recommend. |
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Voters Should Choose Their Politicians, not Vice-Versa...Just Ask Lincoln |
Politicians (especially the GOP) have been rigging the system to get their folks elected and people are finally saying enough is enough: no more gerrymandering. |
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PRE-VIRUS, TRUMP'S ECONOMY WAS JUST A CONTINUATION OF THE OBAMA RECOVERY
(Jobs graph illustrates the Dems' successful recovery from the GOP Great Recession) |
Three years into the Trump Presidency, momentum from the Democratic recovery continued driving job growth, while Donald's ham-handed trade war and tax cuts for the well-off didn't help at all... Here's some of the detail on why, when it comes to the economy, we'll stick with the Dems. |
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Ranking the All-Time Best NFL Helmets |
After a few sodas, this topic frequently comes up among NFL fans, so we decided to weigh in with our take on one of America's favorite NFL points of discussion. |
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Social Security Is Not Going Broke... |
...and, despite the rhetoric you may have heard from the right-wing media and many far right politicians, Social Security is not impacting the federal budget deficit either. |
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Has the Supreme Court Legalized Political Bribery? |
A lot of people are saying just that and it's difficult to make a convincing argument against it. |
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Lyin' Donald Trump? |
Throughout his few years as a politician, Donald Trump has made more unusual assertions than most politicians have in a lifetime. We'll evaluate just how accurate some of these are. |
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OUR FAVORITE PRO-GUN DEMOCRATS |
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For those of you who may have been misled into thinking that if you're pro-gun you have to vote Republican, even though we think it's pretty clear that doing so is not in the country's best interest, nor in your own... |
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| Koch Bros Fighting Against Solar Now |
If you're thinking about going solar, better hurry before the Kochs come calling in your state. |
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Political Cartoons & Memes |
It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words; hence the popularity of political cartoons and memes. Here are some of our favorites. |
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(Mostly) Clean Examples of Trump's Poor Behavior & Lack of Class - updated |
Regardless of their politics, most Americans agree that Mr. Trump's personal behavior is not that of a role model. Here are some lesser known, but (mostly) clean examples to support that fact. |
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RIGHT WING MYTH-BUSTING |
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Voter Fraud, Deep States, Death panels, Benghazi, etc. For too many on the far right, the truth is secondary to their politics. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans hear the right's claims and actually believe them. This column is dedicated to setting you straight on these right-wing myths and myth-makers. |
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The GOP Was For It Before They Were Against It |
The key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) were developed by the GOP and supported by them for over 30 years - why are they so dead-set against it now? |
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| Is it Time to Start Buying American & Stop Supporting the Red Chinese? |
With so many US jobs having gone abroad, particularly to Red China, is it time to make a concerted effort to buy American-made products? |
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FRACKING NOW VIABLE THANKS TO...THE FEDS?
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The right-wing ideologues are going to hope you don't read this... That's because this story is the exact opposite of what those folks like to tell us regarding government spending and government "interference" with the private sector. |
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House GOP Panel Admits Benghazi Rumors Not True |
Despite conservatives' ongoing attempts to smear Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, the comprehensive 2014 report from a House GOP panel disagrees. |
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Fun Economic Statistics |
Sometimes economic numbers actually can be fun to read. Like these, that show the economy does better when the Democrats are in charge. |
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