Posts by libresist
A Bargain Foul…Or Fair?
Editor’s Note: Cesar Vargas has recently posted in HuffPost an indictment of the Democratic Party’s recent deal with the GOP to keep the government in operation. Vargas argues that this amounted to a betrayal of the Dreamers, i.e., “undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. However, our columnist William Albee strongly disagrees: I cannot…
Read MorePart II: Education, Betsy DeVos, and Those Pesky Bears
Editor’s Note: this is the second in a three part series on Julia Peacock, who is running California’s 42nd Congressional District. Sadly, many people prefer to treat troubled youth as disposable children. But, there are individuals like Julia Peacock, who realize that a positive influence in their lives can have an enormous beneficial impact. She…
Read MoreDelusion And Bigotry Within The Cult
By Thomas Hudson Donald Trump’s election depended on bigotry, aided by a reinforcing cycle of ignorance. As a candidate, Trump race-baited constantly and lied ceaselessly, yet with such repetition that those with only a marginal attachment to politics and the facts of a nation came to believe in his confidence and opted to forego even the…
Read MoreSpotlight: Julia Peacock for California’s 42nd Congressional District
Part I: Those Who Shape Our Lives People are often asked, “Who was an influence in your life when you were growing up?” or “Who did you look up to when you were young?” For me, it was my teachers. Especially, the ones who took the extra time to help me master a difficult subject,…
Read MoreTeddy IV Says Watch It!
Remember Theodore Roosevelt? You know, the president who basically created the modern Federal government? And who, in spite of his many admitted shortcomings, was never-the-less one of the most important and effective presidents in US history? And who, by the way, championed conservation? Well, he had kids. In fact, he has a modern name-sake, Theodore…
Read MoreDreamers Revisited
I recently wrote a post entitled ” How Dems Can Immediately Save DACA.” (See https://usaunify.org/liberalresistance/dems-can-immediately-save-daca/) I argued that the Democrats should insist that the budget extension last week should include a provision requiring Homeland Security to accept renewal DACA applications, at least for the period of time of the budget extension. That is what the Ninth…
Read MoreDriving Out Blue Voters
There is an interesting and perhaps alarming article over on the Washington Post, Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America by Michael Scherer. It seems that the next census may include a question about citizenship status… which would scare off quite a few Hispanic immigrants. Non-citizens can’t vote, of course,…
Read MoreHow Dems Can Immediately Save DACA
By Bill Albee and Van Newstrom How can the Democrats save DACA when the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House? There is a way and it can happen next week. On Friday the 19th, Congress must pass a budget extension or the Government will shut down. The Republicans know they need…
Read MoreThe Plutocrat’s Jubilee
By James Carter We own all the money—we will own the land The Courts and the Congress are at our command. Our fortunes have gone up like beautiful rockets’ We’ve the Dems and the Republican both in our pockets; And to please the fool people, we make our salam, And let them choose either—we don’t…
Read MoreWhen Kansas Rules The Globe
By William Albee Editor’s Note: The Trump administration has based its economic policy largely on the pseudo-libertarian theories of the Hard Right in American politics. This means that we have, now, a nation-wide version of the disastrous strategy which the Koch Brothers forced on Kansas, and which nearly bankrupted that state. In the follow commentary,…
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