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U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick cares deeply about Ukraine and endorses strong military weapons support for its Freedom Fighters. But the congressman fails to grasp a crucial piece of important information: In order to accomplish anything in Congress, one needs to build coalitions. The budget Republicans called the Big Beautiful Bill went from the House to […]

Deficit ExplosionThe forever promise of Republicans has been that tax cuts would generate so much economic growth that the government would take in more dollars than it would have through increased taxes. They do not even pretend that this claim has ever proven to be true, and now they are just pushing to make Donald

Defending a people’s freedom against an evil invader is why we sent young Americans to fight in two world wars as a way to make the entire planet safe for democracy. That we are not defending Ukraine with the full force of our weapons is a disservice to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who

Of the 10 richest people in the world, nine of them are Americans. These nine Americans have accumulated wealth that totals $1,500,000,000,000. There are Republicans who scream and complain that there is too much business regulation. Baloney. It is obvious that the United States with approximately 4% of the world’s population — 300 million of

Bill Barr turned to his interviewer and said, “Did he succeed?”  In context, that innocuous-sounding statement is, in fact, a frightening confirmation of the depths the Republican party is going to defend a man whose foundation and university were judged fraudulent, who was found liable for sexual assault and who faces multiple serious indictments. Barr was excusing

Let the word go out. The Republican Party just destroyed its very last vestige of being the party of law and order and personal responsibility. Dead. Gone. Disappeared. George Santos stole, robbed, cheated, and lied about every aspect of his entire existence. People were hurt by him. Apparently, his only saving attribute was that, in