Year: 2016

Ralph Nader’s Getting the Band Back Together

Whatever you might think about Ralph Nader as a presidential candidate, you should acknowledge his enormous contributions to consumer rights and safety, ecology, and good government. He spawned a generation of organizers that...

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Boehner Won’t Vote for Cruz

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner made news last night when he made an appearance at Stanford University. “You can call me boner, beaner, jackass, happy to answer to almost anything,” said former Speaker of the House John...

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Sanders Supporters: Take Heart

I hope Bernie Sanders supporters will read this and take heart. In 1984, Jessie Jackson came to the convention in a situation much like Bernie’s position this time. He had a lot of fervent supporters but not enough to win....

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Casual Observation

Trump pretty much wraps up the Republican nomination and the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House gets fifteen months in prison. It must be time to write a few “Democrats in disarray” columns.

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Ireland to get a Government at last?

In Political Paralysis in Ireland? I wrote about the inconclusive outcome to the Irish general election of February 2016 and predicted that we were in for a prolonged period of Kabuki theatre where the major parties, Fine Gael...

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