In every presidential election, the Republican candidate runs as a conservative promising to reduce the debt and deficit. The promises have been made for so many decades that they have created a myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives determined to reduce the National Debt and the Democrats are crazy, uncontrolled spenders. In the 2016 election,…
On July 30th, CNN held the July Democratic presidential debate. This was the second scheduled debate on the trail to 2020. While the first debates were more civil, the July debate turned into a fierce fight where candidates held no punches. The candidates were Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Former…
By Hans Bader I lost ten pounds in the summer that I worked at McDonald’s, eating there all the time. Yet, people try to blame fast-food restaurants for their obesity. It’s one of the “myths about fast food” discussed this week in the Washington Post, which observes that “just eating burgers does not cause obesity.”…
A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in federal school meal programs…
The Anti-war Left by-and-large, well… left, sometime during Obama’s Presidency. Most were killed by the kind of partisanship that would excuse expansions of the war machine as long as the guy doing it had a “D” by his name. Among the partisans, there is still lingering denial about bombing more countries than Bush, violating the…
For the past couple of years, when I’ve criticized Trump, I’ve often heard “but Obama…” It was annoyingly irrelevant. He was no longer President. Whether or not he was “worse” or “better” than Trump didn’t change whether any specific Trump-led policies were positive or negative. The same people who rightly criticized Obama supporters for continuing…
Two prominent Democrats addressed the victims of the Sri Lankan church bombings that took place on Easter Sunday in a bizarre way which has upset many people on Twitter. Both Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama refused to use the word ‘Christians’ when referring to the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, which currently has…
Both NPR News and former President Barack Obama appear to follow a few interesting choice Twitter accounts. Fleshjack, a gay sex toy manufacturer as well as an account called StudJulian are both followed by the news outlet and the former President. It’s unclear why they would be following these accounts, or if they were previously…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss oral arguments on Monday for the first time as the 85-year-old recovers from surgery that removed cancerous nodules from her left lung. Kathy Arberg, a spokesperson for the court, said Ginsburg was still recovering from the surgery she underwent on December 21st to remove cancerous lesions, and it…
Kush Desai Former Bush administration Director of Black Outreach Paris Dennard claimed that in the wake of the 2015 deadly shooting of a black Charleston church, President Barack Obama “did not name [the shooter] and call him a domestic terrorist” on CNN Monday. The statement was made during a heated exchange regarding President Donald Trump’s…