An academic text sets off a firestorm in South Florida over whether those who fled Cuba’s Communist dictatorship get special breaks.
Jeb Bush
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It’s Not Just the Growing Hispanic Population That Could Turn Texas Blue
The state’s major metropolitan areas lead the country on population growth.
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The O’Rourke Strategy For Political Realignment in the South
He ended the downward spiral that had engulfed Democrats in Texas.
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Even More Nonsense from John Kasich
Does anybody buy the good-guy act at this point? America’s favorite fake-moderate was dragged on to NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, and again tried to promote the dubious idea that Donald Trump and Roy Moore are anomalies in the GOP, as opposed to being an accurate representation of what his party thinks and believes: Ohio […]
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Bush-League Criticism
What was Henry Kissinger’s old joke about the Iran-Iraq war, again? The conflict between Donald Trump and the Bush family is perhaps the silliest of the 45th President’s many feuds, nothing more than the latest outbreak of red-on-red rhetorical violence (see Trump v. McCain, Trump v. Corker, Trump v. Flake., etc.) It’s fundamentally silly because […]
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The Party of George W. and Jeb Bush Is Dying
Voodoo economics and a militaristic foreign policy failed miserably.
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Trump’s Voters Are Responsible for Killing the Paris Climate Agreement
Forty years ago today, in an article Donald Trump and his supporters apparently never bothered to read, the New York Times reported: To avoid accumulation in the air of sufficient carbon dioxide to cause major climate changes, it may ultimately be necessary to restrict the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, according to Dr. […]
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Break On Through (To the Other Side): Part II
Are the Republicans who are declaring that they’re “with her” quietly admitting an inconvenient truth about the man who was declared victorious over Al Gore sixteen years ago? Notice the common thread that runs through the words of pro-Clinton Republicans: they’ve declared that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is “completely unqualified” for the White House, […]
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Jeb Bush Cut Taxes – But Mostly for the Wealthy
During his tenure, presidential candidate Jeb Bush cut taxes for Florida residents by $13 billion.
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America’s Forgotten Formula for Economic Equality
A signature moment in the first Democratic presidential debate was when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders how he could hope to win the general election as an avowed “democratic socialist.” The Vermont senator had a ready answer. Being a democratic socialist, he said, is about “saying that it is immoral and wrong” that […]
