Only a Republican/Teabagger would consider lunch programs for impoverished youth a problem. Must be the super rich still don't have enough wealth for it to trickle down to lunch programs. Better break up some more unions and ship jobs to Mexico.

If only the poor would get out and vote against the billionaire party! ...If only?

I'm so glad someone finally pointed out the Republicans hatred for the living and their rallying around the unborn. If only we could get mainstream media to publicize it, the republicans would be finished, like the dinosaurs.

Only in america

In listening to Trumps online interviews, he comes across as reasonable, measured, and intelligent.

His bombastic public persona must be for political theater.

Agree with previous post that he is not a Republican.

Anybody but Hillary.

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The death of the planet does not come all at once. The corporate media likes stories about comets hitting earth because that gets people thinking that it would take a catastrophic meteor strike etc to destroy the planet-so lets forget about global warming, plastic pollution and all the rest of the human caused impacts to the global environment.

The earth is dying-a little at a time-ecosystem by ecosystem. Dead animals washing up on the beaches with guts full of plastic and the response of one plastic manufacturer was ' those animals are pretty stupid if they eat it'. They will take no responsibility unless they are forced to do so. That was what regulation was about until Reagan and Watt let the dragons loose on us. I remember one oil company official telling me back in the 1980's that "wow, we could not believe that we would be this free to do whatever we wanted to do" as they made huge piles of cash.

I was trained as an ecologist and can tell you that pretty much no one listens to ecologists. Business CEO's consider ecologists to be like a social "appendix" in that they have no function in the modern body of politics or society and most people will not think about the planet going to hell because they prefer to live in a fairytale state of mind that does not cause mental stress. So they go along with the media with the fantasy that environmental problems are not really that much of a threat and maybe somebody will solve them down the line a few years from now.

The reality is that the planet is about half dead. We have only about half the terestrial animal biomass left since 1970 and the loss of animal life in the oceans is about the same. The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere keeps rising and yet congress voted to expedite fracking. I guess they want to kill their mother and they are doing a good job at it.

So if you meet a real ecologist who appears depressed- buy him or her a beer and celebrate what time that we have left.

Tom Wheeler's previous job was as the head of the biggest telecommunication's lobbying firms, and now he's head of the FCC. Gee, I wonder why he gave this deal the nod. The revolving door between gov't and the private sector just keeps spinning.

Sam - Madea was so right to correct your characterization of Bernie supporters who were Obama supporters as"radicalized". Really???? !!! Take a breath Sam. Reset. Get out of the bubble you have fallen into. My god! So disappointed.

As I understand it, all state tax revenues are deposited in the ND State Bank and doled out for state spending. So in essence they act as the state treasury.

https://bnd.nd.gov/2015-annual-report/

A glowing report. At least 9 other states have considered following suit. So far, no results.

We Vote Against Bernie, the Bodacious

{… a 2-versed limerick …}

It’s Bernie who’s admirably bodacious, -

- yet we vote for opponents mendacious

and/or loudly loquacious

and/or sneakily predacious

and with policy-ideas fallacious.

... ... ... ...

We vote for the highly audacious

whose hold on Reason is tenacious,

with appetites voracious

for Power. - Goodness gracious!!

we vote for a future vexatious!!

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I believe Trump will win in Nov. We are one terrorist attack or a significant economic downturn away from a guaranteed Trump victory.

The smugness of the Eastern Establishment has boggled my mind for decades. Neither end of the political spectrum (which is only from "a" to "b") gets that the largely supressed-rest-of-us are not on board, have been pitched overboard and no longer believe there's anything worth backing in NYC -- WashDC metro-web (if we ever did!) I doubt there's anyone capable of hearing a reasoned "pitch" to simply back the best ideas (Bernie's moderate reforms) in the Dem Establishment. Trump is spitting in the eye of the Rep Establishment, and knows just what he's doing. Most small business owners, doctors, lawyers, skilled blue collar workers will end up going for Trump if Bernie isn't allowed to take him on -- not just the Limbaugh rabble. Blow hards like Trump are members of every country club in every county seat in the country -- and they throw good bar-be-ques and buy the drinks. Hillary? She's an upstart married to a trailer-trash grifter from Arkansas with his pants unzipped. Wall Street money won't save her from his wit (like it or not, it is, indeed, wit.) It is time, Thom, that the Beltway looks into the mirror and sees how naked and pasty-assed they look. I'm sorry it has come to this, but lack of willingness to engage in self-critical debate lends itself to just what we are witnessing.