“This Is A No”: Joe Manchin Kills Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda

Joe Manchin

This past Sunday, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin effectively killed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act by stating he would vote no on the legislation. Manchin made his intentions known during an appearance on Fox News Sunday with host Bret Baier. West Virginia’s Senior Senator cited numerous concerns as to why he could […]

Expanding The Supreme Court Will Only Cause More Problems

United States Supreme Court

On April 15, 2021, several Progressive Democrats in Congress introduced legislation to expand the U.S. Supreme Court from nine Justices to 13. The effort, co-sponsored by Democratic congressmen Hank Johnson, Jerrold Nadler, and Mondaire Jones, as well as Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, has almost no chance of advancing in the House. Shortly after the […]

Understanding Media — The Challenge Progressives Must Meet In 2020

A very fine and specific nuance emerged for me this past weekend in my own evolving attempt to understand American media coverage of politics, economics, and public affairs. There will be more election analysis in the coming weeks, but as I sat down to write this week’s column, it struck me that media analysis (which […]

As The Donald Turns; Twitter Storm

Social media has been at the forefront of political discussions this week so the staff at As The Donald Turns presents “Twitter Storm.” • There has been so much Donald could have been talking about this week, like the healthcare bill skating through the Senate with no public hearings, any new workforce week plans he […]

Donald Trump Already Has One Eye on the 2020 Election

Anyone who thought that, having won the election, Donald Trump might tone down his rhetoric has been proved wrong in the past few days and weeks. From suggesting that millions of ‘illegal’ votes were cast on the 9th November, to opening a particularly lively can of worms by bringing a phone call with the Taiwanese President into […]

WikiLeaks:Ten Years Anniversary

Julian Assange, 45 years of age, is a native-born Australian citizen and a journalist. He is the founder and director of WikiLeaks, a controversial website for leaking enormous amount of classified materials with attached top secret files directly extracted from government agencies. For the last ten years, WikiLeaks released more than 10 million classified documents, […]

Bernie Sanders with Daily News

What Happened During That Bernie Sanders Interview and Why Can’t Anyone Agree? On April 1st Bernie Sanders had an interview with The Daily News.     The Media Takes Their Sides A blog writer for the Washington Post felt moments in Bernie Sander’s conversation left him “agape” and another said it is “pretty close to a disaster”, Vox […]

Big Pharma: Big Brother’s Heavily Medicated Cousin

Big Pharma: Besides the words President Trump, few other utterances possess the ability to make every man, woman and child tremble with genuine fear. Similar to The Donald, the term Big Pharma has come to represent something dishonest, malevolent, and thoroughly distasteful. An enigmatic entity consisting of corporations, regulators, politicians, and a growing number of physicians, Big […]

If Bernie Sanders Loses, Would it Have All Been Pointless?

We were told the Democratic nominee was going be Hillary Clinton. Hell, it almost certainly will be as whispers that Bernie Sanders has all but accepted defeat have been making waves over the weekend. Despite this, the #FeelTheBern phenomenon has gripped many would-be and potential voters across the United States, none more so than the young electorate who […]