Shawanda Wilson, who works at Taco Bell in Tampa, Fla. and makes $8.25 an hour, has never voted before. Neither has Tonya Harrington, a 42-year-old home care worker from Durham, NC, who makes $7.25 an hour. Both say they’ve steered clear of voting booths not because they don’t care, but because they’ve felt politicians don’t […]
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So far, following the savage attack in Paris, the only people doing better than ISIS terrorists at manipulating Americans into acting against their security interests are U.S. politicians. The scramble to duck and cover from Syrian war refugees that we are witnessing recalls the famous line from the comic strip Pogo:”We have met the enemy, […]
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There were two debates this week; one year out from the election. The 4th major Republican presidential debate was supposed to whittle down the number of candidates; but instead the lesser polling candidates (former Governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich, along with Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz) turned in strong debate performances. Rubio and […]
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Representative Paul Ryan, from Wisconsin, is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Ryan former Governor Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 is young (45), very conservative, and did not want the Speaker’s job. But he took it anyway. Ryan has his contradictions. He was a fan of the Russian born, American novelist […]
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From the git-go, the CNBC moderators lost control of the third Republican presidential Debate to the candidates. And it wasn’t hard. Sen. Ted Cruz wrested a budget question away from CNBC reporter Carl Quintanilla and turned it on him, “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz […]
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