A Corkboard Candidacy
U.S. Senator Bernard Sanders is considered a possible candidate for President in 2016, but months have passed since his name was proposed by liberal activists, and still we don’t know what Sanders...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Prepared To Run For President
This week, U.S. Senator Bernard Sanders told Time Magazine, “We need candidates who are prepared to represent the working families of this country, who are prepared to stand up to the big money...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is #Up4Climate
Tonight, The Guardian reports, two dozen Democratic U.S. Senators are participating in an all-night vigil, discussing the importance of action to confront climate change. It’s a British newspaper, so...
View ArticleRand Paul Versus Bernard Sanders On CIA Spying Against The US Senate
Here we are, a full day since the news that the CIA has been conducting illegal spy operations against the United States Senate. In reaction to the revelations yesterday, our writer J. Clifford...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Versus Hillary Clinton On NSA Spying
It’s almost certain that former U.S. Senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to run for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2016. It’s also almost certain that U.S....
View ArticleSenator Sanders Notices Big Holes In Obama’s NSA Plan
President Barack Obama made news this week that he would propose a plan to decrease a small fraction of spying against the American people by the National Security Agency. The Obama plan would switch...
View ArticleThe Presidential Power of Hair Dye
K. of Washington State writes in to Irregular Times with a request: Could you possibly offer a Robert Reich in 2016 bumper sticker? (It’s one way of encouraging him to run. We need a good candidate...
View ArticleSanders Challenges Americans To Drop Their Political Apathy
“Given the enormous problems facing our country, the fact that we are moving toward an oligarchic society and the fact that we are not addressing the planetary crisis of climate change, it is...
View ArticleVoting To Confirm Judge David Barron, Bernie Sanders Lost My Support In The...
Earlier today, I wrote of a moral test in the U.S. Senate. This afternoon, David Barron’s confirmation to a powerful judicial position was put to a vote in the U.S. Senate. David Barron’s nomination...
View ArticleVoting for President: All About Limiting the Damage?
Since Peregrin Wood explained this Spring why he would no longer support a run by Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016, I’ve been thinking about whether I agree and why. Peregrin...
View ArticleThree Senate Democrats Join Climate Change Deniers
This week, Senator Bernard Sanders offered an amendment to S.1, Republican legislation to approve the construction Keystone XL tar sands pipeline across the American Midwest. The amendment didn’t...
View ArticleDemocrats Introduce Bill To Reduce America’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to push the President of the United States to re-enter the Cold War, engaging in a proxy war against Russia by sending weapons and money to the...
View ArticleSenate Votes Against Jobs And Social Security
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate dealt with amendments to S. Con. Res. 11, a resolution establishing the budget for the federal government in 2016. Within these amendments, two stood out as progressive...
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