By Glynn Wilson – Defying the odds and the oddsmakers in the mainstream media, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is still alive in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, and one of the reasons his campaign resonates with so many people is because the traditional press in America would rather focus on the conflict…
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Look Which Political Party is Crying Now
Making Sense – By Michael Reagan – Look which party is blowing itself up now and struggling to unify behind a single candidate. Hint: It’s not the Republicans. After all those months of worrying and complaining about having too many candidates, the GOP finally found its 2016 presidential candidate, for good and bad. A couple…
Robert Reich: Advice for Divided Democrats
By Robert Reich – With the Democratic primaries grinding to a bitter end, I have suggestions for both Clinton and Sanders supporters that neither will like. First, my advice to Clinton supporters: Don’t try to drum Bernie Sanders out of the race before Hillary Clinton officially gets the nomination (if she in fact does get…
Hurricane Season Comes Early: Experts Predict More Major Storms This Year
By Glynn Wilson – It seems hurricane season is coming a little early this year, just in time for the Memorial Day holiday. Five days before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, the second tropical storm warning of 2016 was issued Friday for the coast of South Carolina by the National Weather Service.…
Happy Memorial Day President Obama, America’s Political Jackie Robinson
Robert Reich: Why Trump Might Win
By Robert Reich – A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday finds Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie, with Trump leading Clinton 46 percent to 44 percent among registered voters. That’s an 11 percent swing against Clinton since March. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, also released Sunday, shows Clinton…
Moody’s Election Model Based on Presidential Approval Rating Predicts Clinton Would Beat Trump in General Election
By Glynn Wilson – Now that President Barack Obama’s approval rating is higher than 50 percent, one survey research firm is predicting that the Democratic Party’s nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, will hold onto the White House in the general election come November, even if she has to face Donald Trump. According to a compilation…
Eight 100 Million Dollar Ideas for Prison Reform in Alabama
By Stephen Cooper – Guest Column – Instead of wrapping an $800 million dollar ($1.5 billion over 30 years) albatross around the necks of Alabamians to build four new super-prisons, here are eight $100 million dollar ideas, each of which, I respectfully submit, are more efficient and morally sound ways to tackle Alabama’s prison problems:…
Bernie Sanders Wins Concessions from Democratic Party, Names Five Members to Platform Committee
Glynn Wilson — To understand the impact Bernie Sanders is having on the presidential election of 2016, look no further than Tuesday’s announcement that Sanders gets to name 5 of the 15 members of the Democratic Party platform committee. While the Washington Post broke the story, the paper now owned by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos chose…
Vietnam Should Be Considered a Friend and Ally of the United States
By James Rhodes – Special to the New American Journal – HANOI, Vietnam — Political pundit Bill Maher frequents laments over the stupidity and ignorance of the voting electorate in the United States. What amazes me is how grossly understated this phenomena actually happens to be. The most recent case in point is President Obama’s…
Trump’s Successful Republican Campaign is Based on George Wallace’s Politics
Will the Country Really Go Along with the Alabamification of America? – By Glynn Wilson – Mainstream news organizations, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats alike keep trying to make an issue of the fact that Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump refuses to release his tax returns. Do they simply do not realize that antipathy…
Facebook Scandal a Warning for the Future of the Internet
By Phil Kerpen – A Conservative View – Many conservatives are waving off concerns about Facebook manipulating its Trending News feature because it’s a private company. In addition to legal concerns related to the fact the feature was deceptively misrepresented, there is a bigger reason Facebook’s conduct should set off alarm bells: the company has…
Donald Trump: Not For Sale, but Now for Rent
By Michael Shannon – A Conservative View – Donald Trump has upended presidential campaign conventional wisdom yet again. In past years, it was traditional for candidates to wait until after inauguration to break campaign promises. Trump isn’t even waiting until he’s the nominee. Before last week’s startling announcement, two of Trump’s biggest applause lines were…
Artist to Perform WWII Japanese Internment Show Sunday
Kimi Maeda’s solo performance, Bend, tells the true story of two men interned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II: Maeda’s father, an Asian Art historian who suffered from dementia at the end of his life, and the subject of his research, Isamu Noguchi, a half-Japanese-half-American sculptor. Weaving together live feed projections…
Trump’s Presidential Reality Show Should Be Canceled Come November
By John L. Micek – We already know Donald Trump thinks the presidency of the United States is “the ultimate reality show.” So is it really any surprise that the real estate magnate spent years posing as his own spokesman as he tried to plant favorable stories among the New York reporters who covered him…
Ashamed to Be From Alabama
How the CIA Tip That Jailed Nelson Mandela and Donald Trump’s Politics Converge
By Juan Cole – The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest should come as no great shock, though the public confirmation is perhaps surprising. Nor is it unconnected to the popularity of Donald Trump, who is proposing a new Apartheid…
Advice for RV Nomads on Choosing a State of Residence
Facebook Needs to Be an Open Book on News Feeds
“By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible. These voices will increase in number and volume. They cannot be ignored. Over time, we expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by…
Fish Markets Muddy the Water of Capitalism
By James Rhodes – HANOI, Vietnam – When I taught economics at the college level, my students learned that our capitalistic system which included production, industry, distribution and delivery systems under private ownership operated for profit. All decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments were made by the market and never by the government.…