By Glynn Wilson – We are closer than ever to answering the question: Are we alone in the universe? If there are other planets out there that could support life like Earth, NASA’s Kepler space telescope may find them first. Due to the most recent analysis of data from Kepler, launched in March 2009 and…
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Will the Bernie Sanders Political Revolution on the Left Continue?
By Ethan Corey – A YEAR AGO, WHEN BERNIE SANDERS ANNOUNCED HIS RUN FOR PRESIDENT, few thought his bid would amount to more than a protest campaign. But today, after more than 2 million donors and 400,000 volunteers have helped Sanders build a highly effective political organization that has earned him victories in 18 states…
Abe Lincoln Must Be Rolling Over in His Grave
By Dick Polman – Here’s the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds….” And here’s the presumptive 2016 Republican…
Turns Out There Is No Republican ‘Establishment’
Can we please retire the notion that Donald Trump is hijacking someone elseâs party? – By Frank Rich – In mid-July of 2015, a month after Donald Trump announced his presidential run, I joined a gaggle of political junkies in a clubby bar four blocks from the White House to hear a legendary campaign strategist…
Alabama Bloggers and Lawyers Have Egg All Over Their Faces
Donald Trump is No Ronald Reagan
Trump Could Be the Next Herbert Hoover
By John L. Micek – One of them is a free trade-wary millionaire and political neophyte who locked up the Republican presidential nomination with promises to make America great and get the economy firing on all cylinders. The other is Donald Trump. As he’s insulted, ranted and bullied his way through the 2016 primary season,…
How the JFK Assassination Mystery Still Influences U.S. Politics
Texas Senator Ted Cruz Drops Out of Republican Primary Race for President – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How is it possible that the mysterious assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 is still influencing presidential politics 53 years later? In an attempt to knock out his closest rival Ted Cruz…
Bernie Sanders Supporters Begin to Plan Post Election Movement
Everything’s Connected: Alabama Medicaid and You
Back bone connected to the shoulder bone, â¨Shoulder bone connected to the neck bone, â¨Neck bone connected to the head boneâ¨, And thatâs the way it goes — Dem Bones – By Pippa Abston, MD – You probably recognize that verse — you may have sung this more recent secular version or the original by…
How to Reverse the Widening Wealth Gap in America
By Robert Reich – Wealth inequality is even more of a problem than income inequality. That’s because you have to have enough savings from income to begin to accumulate wealth – buying a house or investing in stocks and bonds, or saving up to send a child to college. But many Americans have almost no…