It is an interesting moment in western history. In this country, Trump is finally facing an impeachment inquiry. In Britain, Boris Johnson has suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the nation’s supreme court. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu fights for political survival. Nothing is firmly decided. The Right could still weather this particular storm.…

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Bill Weld is an odd duck to say the least. As governor of Massachusetts, he led the charge for privatization of state resources. (It didn’t always go well. I know. I was in the state at the time.) Then, as the vice presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, he did his best to help shift…

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Pollster and political analyst Stanley B. Greenberg has a new book out, RIP GOP, How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans. In it, he argues convincingly that changes in America’s demography (immigration), way of life (urbanization), and changes in gender relations (feminism) are so changing America that the Republican party is pretty much doomed.…

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News outlets are reporting that Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks and current billionaire, has dropped his bid for the presidency as a third party candidate. This is very good news for the Democratic Party, which had feared that Schultz might split the vote in 2020 and ensure a Trump victory. Here at LR…

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From Futurism.com: These Scientists Want to Bring Back Zeppelins in a Big Way, “Their proposed cargo airship is ten times bigger than the Hindenburg.” It seems you just can’t keep a good idea…or an airship…down. Airships, a.k.a., Zeppelins, were a technology that seemed to literally crash and burn over eighty years ago. Yet, they may…

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Photo via Good Free Photos To all LR Net readers, contributors, and friends on the East Coast or the Atlantic shore…be careful! Hurricane Dorian appears to be a genuine threat to life. According to the National Hurricane Center, Dorian is now the strongest hurricane in recorded history to hit the Northwestern Bahamas. It is expected…

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Yesterday, we learned that Kirsten Gillibrand had withdrawn from the presidential race. As a publication, LR Net is neutral on that fact. We’ll support whatever candidate emerges from the primaries to oppose Trump in 2020. But… I am personally delighted that she has taken her ball and her bat and gone home. She was one…

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LiberalResistance.net got its start in the great state of New Mexico, so we keep an eye on New Mexican politics when we can. And, right now, things are about to get interesting in our old home. New Mexico has a Senate seat coming open soon, and the choice looks to be either a Progressive Democrat,…

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Here’s a video tribute to a canine friend. Why? Well, because, heck, you can’t have politics all the time.      

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So this is amusing. You recall how Tumblr shut down all its “adult oriented” sites? Well, guess what. It was a huge mistake. Users scattered to the winds and now Verizon, which bought Yahoo, which had bought Tumblr, has had to sell the blogging site at fire sale prices. Specifically, Verizon has just passed it…

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