How to fix Social Security Disability
Today, I discovered a report submitted to Congress regarding modifying the Social Security Disability Program. I read enough of the report to know that the people who prepared it had never actually...
View ArticleDisability Blankets for the Thumb-Sucking Masses?
The short story is that I subscribe to daily google news feeds on disability. Last evening, this article title came across my screen. I thought, oh dear. This is not going to be a pleasant experience....
View ArticleThe rest of the "Ted Cruz scares little girl" speech
A content-free, scary speech from Ted Cruz is demagoguery at its worst. And no wonder people think politics is confusing. They go home thinking this guy is going to solve their problems. They do not...
View ArticleThe Big Lie: Part Umpteenth Jillion
The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary ClintonBy ASHLEY PARKER and NICK CORASANITI, MAY 16, 2015http://nyti.ms/...WASHINGTON — A Twitter post recently caught the eye of Bill McKibben, the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Dumbest Senator* Joni Ernst is going somewhere again!
By Olivia LaRosa, May 27, 2015The extreme traveller and one-term Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst has added another destination to her 99-county tour of Iowa**…VietNam. I am sure that Joni’s constituents...
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What earth would look like if all the ice melted
Bad news for the State of Florida: it disappears, evaporates, submerges nearly totally and completely. Is this their punishment for re-electing Rick Scott? Many major cities disappear. Here in the US,...
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul’s appalling views on disabled people clash with the facts 6...
by Olivia LaRosaThis sound biteabout the disabled is disgraceful and embarrassing. Dr. Paul, you are making up stories about disabled people.Rand Paul, is it because you want to divide Social Security...
View ArticleFour things rotten in the State of Iowa
by Olivia LaRosa, June 13, 2015 from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, New York TimesRead yesterday, late, that Iowa has cancelled Straw Vote. The New York Times said, "With (mostly the large field...
View ArticleWCGW? Immunization Could Halt Post-Traumatic Stress
Tired of typing the tongue-in-cheek what-could-go-wrong, I am now defaulting to WCGW?This headline from Scientific American, by Sara Reardon, made my eyes bug out of my head. Here's the...
View ArticleMy Bernie comment not posted at NYT
I posted a comment after a wonderful Paul Krugman article at the NYT that spoke of the successes of Obamacare. (I know there are different opinions about that. Please set that aside for now.)I post...
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The Weekly "F" Bomb: Trump: NSFW
I subscribe to a lot of listservs. I've lost track of the number, but among them is "Funny or Die." Each week they choose someone who humiliate with withering sarcasm.The winner this week is Donald...
View ArticleDefunding of Planned Parenthood bill BLOCKED in the Senate; but the switch...
Some brave Republican Senators stood with women today, joining the Democrats in blocking their bill to unfund Planned Parenthood.This is the official point at which the Republican Party has thrown the...
View ArticleDoes Mississippi have Democratic Primaries?
"Mississippi College Republicans staff voting site in emergency"I have been there and done that in regard to elections: poll worker, election protection worker and trainer, political science degree,...
View ArticleDriving While Peaceful
related to: Angry driver plows into protesters on I-70, police file charges against protesters for SUV damage, Jen Hayden's article of Wednesday, August 12, 2015.July 2005Recently, people in Orange...
View ArticleNate Silver on "the grave problems families face today"
And non-white voters are sometimes extremely pragmatic. They’re concerned about grave problems that their families face today, and they aren’t necessarily looking for a socialist revolution. ~The...
View ArticleThe scary empleomaniacs in our midst: Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Hillary...
Olivia LaRosa, August 29, 2015"A strong effort should be made to extirpate the empleomania, the eternal place-hunting, which is the bane of Spain."— The Times (London), 3 Aug. 1854This word tends to be...
View ArticleBig Data Geeks: See live tracking of Daily Kos
LiveTracking of Daily Kos website in Ghostery.This is not meant to be a promotion. I put www.dailykos.com into a link that I did not mean to.This is the result. It moves for me all the time. I don't...
View ArticleMr. Sanders goes to Washington: With Biden in, Bernie wins the primary!
I established a daily Bernie Sanders news alert a few months ago.Last night I found this extraordinary group of articles, videos and other at CNN. After sleeping on it, I think this possibility of a...
View ArticleJeb Bush cans his Chief Operating Officer
SHE is the one who makes things happen. SHE is female. Good Job, Jeb!Despite having a huge campaign warchest, way more than $20,000,000 and that Right to Rise PAC funded at $100,000,000 that's One...
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Bernie Sanders wins the Interwebs! Four reasons Bernie can become our President.
The New York Times frets that Hillary’s campaign suffers from “a lack of enthusiasm.” Well yeah, duh! People keep saying that Hillary is “the one,” yet the public keeps demonstrating how reluctant they...
View ArticleHeadline: Ex-conservative teen endorses Bernie Sanders for President
‘Conservative Wunderkind' CJ Pearson States He Plans to Work for Bernie SandersPhil Palmer, TimesOracle.com 12-12-2015On Wednesday, he (CJ) reportedly told CNN that he believed Sanders was "the right...
View ArticleYour Daily Bernie Sanders Digest, Dec 15 2015
I set up a Google Search for Bernie Sanders a few months ago and the number of articles has increased to the point where I think I should just put them up for people to view and share. Here’s the first...
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Your Daily Bernie Sanders Digest, Dec. 16, 2015, AM
BustleBernie Sanders Gained The Most Twitter Followers During The GOP Debate, Which Is A Bad Sign ...BustleBernie Sanders gaining more Twitter followers during the debate than anyone on stage in Las...
View ArticleYour Daily Bernie Sanders Digest - December 17, 2015
Welp, it was a quiet news day for Bernie and the Berners, and I will abstain from pasting today’s list. You should know that Bernie is already writing his inauguration speech, and even though Barbara...
View ArticleSanders beats tRUMP by a landslide!
At Informed Comment, a blog by Professor Juan Cole, mideast expert, he shares a new Quinniapac poll showing Bernie clobbering the Terrorump 51% to 38% . Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47%...
View ArticleInternational Press comments on the Democratic Debate & Candidates
Foreign and US insightful commentators weigh in on the Democratic Debate: 1) bad timing; 2) views of Hillary and Bernie; 3) are we the police of the world? xYouTube Video Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is a...
View ArticleIf you are a Hillary supporter, yee-haw for you!
I actually received this in a fundraising message from the Hillary campaign tonight. Puedes encontrar más información sobre la campaña de Hillary en español aquí. If you're still reading this, you must...
View ArticleFour reasons to go for the Financial Transaction Tax, Bernie's plan to fund...
Four reasons to go for the Financial Transaction Tax, Bernie Sanders’ proposal to fund public collegesbyOliviaXLaRosaPosted onJanuary 6, 2016Deborah Lagutaris (nom de plume) Olivia LaRosa) has a Law...
View ArticleBernie Sanders is surging just at the right time!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is surging in early-state polling as the Democratic presidential primary approaches its final stretch before Iowa and New Hampshire voters weigh in.In a poll out...
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Bernie's Bacon's Rebellion: Class-based analysis of Democratic electorate,...
This article went missing from the front page of the New York Times after only 60 comments. Makes you wonder, why?A Key Divide Between Clinton and Sanders Supporters: IncomeThis is a class-based split....
View ArticleHillary: Carrying on Obama's legacy...
Obama's Last Budget Quadruples Military Spending on RussiaHonest, is this where the American people want to flush our infrastructure money? Bad Americans! Asking for safe bridges and highways? Clean...
View Articlerecent scary economic history makes me scared
Rebalancing a portfolio: a commentary on the market as a wholeI am back in school. I swear this is my last degree. I had to drop out of an LL.M. Program in Taxation and Financial Services in 2013 due...
View ArticleA big surprise from New Hampshire
New Hampshire Republicans are seriously changing the election gameWe all know that New Hampshire voters are serious about their politics and independent of the party line more than some others. I feel,...
View ArticleThe superdelegate problem: DWS admits they are in place to stop grassroots...
Un-Democratic Party: DNC Chair Says Superdelegates Ensure Elites Don't Have to Run 'Against Grassroots Activists'Finally, admitting what we all knew anyway.Jake Tapper interviewing Debbie Wasserman...
View ArticleCalling FOUL: There were “Actually” no Bernie Fans chanting "English Only!"...
Shame on anyone who pays any attention to right-wing agents provocateurs. Who engages in this provocation? College Republicans, local police, White Hate Groups, Highway Patrol, Sheriff’s Department,...
View ArticleInternational Business Times reports on new batch of Clinton emails
Hillary Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department ReleaseSo, let me start out by saying to you sincere Hillary supporters that I...
View ArticleUnless the Democrats Run Sanders, A Trump Nomination Means a Trump Presidency
From Current Affairs Magazine.If Democrats honestly believe, as they say they do, that Trump poses a serious threat to the wellbeing of the country and the lives of minority citizens, that means doing...
View ArticleFormer Michigan Senator Don Riegle (D) Flint Michigan endorses Bernie Sanders...
He was GOP before he was a Dem and kept his seat. I tried to put Michigan in the headline three times but I ran out of space.Take it away, Michigan for Bernie! Let's get our President Sanders.Former...
View ArticleThe Transformative Power of Democratic Uprisings - In Praise of Impractical...
The Transformative Power of Democratic Uprisings - In Praise of Impractical Movements - See more at:...
View ArticleYou can vote on 2016 TIME Mag top 100 Persons! So far BERNIE LEADS AT 85%....
Accidentally I came across the Time top 100 People poll last night. I seem to have a lot of accidents on the Internet. But some of them are great accidents! If you do not have a TIME account, you can...
View ArticleBernie Sanders gets more primary votes from young people than Trump AND...
Hillary comes in THIRD. He beats them by A LOTRead it all here. www.washingtonpost.com/…
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