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On the Way - Make America Sick Again?
Jan. 5, 2017 3:02 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
Yesterday on Capitol Hill Vice President Elect Mike Pence reassured Republicans that repealing Obamacare will be "first order of business for the incoming Trump administration".
But as Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer pointed out in a press conference yesterday, Republicans simply have no idea what they're going to replace Obamacare with.
What’s the Fake News Freak Out Really About?
Jan. 3, 2017 3:49 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...For decades a staple of the far-right has been the story that the news media in the United States is unreliable, doesn't tell the true story, and even promulgates outright lies. There was the "absolute reality" that the moonshot was faked, that the government is filled with communists, that whites are the superior race, or that both 9/11 and the Newtown massacres were false flag government psychological operations. Conspiracy theorist and right-wingers have long pointed the finger of doubt or damnation at the corporate news agencies in our country.
GOP Plans to Destroy Our Safety Net Will Also Kill Democracy
Dec. 29, 2016 2:18 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Newt Gingrich openly bragged recently at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were going to "break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model." That "model," of course, created what we today refer to as "the middle class."EPA Says Fracking Harmful to Drinking Water - Will Trump Listen?
Dec. 28, 2016 3:41 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...
Here in Washington, DC, the Environmental Protection Agency - EPA - has reversed course on fracking.Initially, the agency had concluded in a draft report that released last year that fracking had no "widespread, systemic impact" on drinking water.
That conclusion outraged environmentalists as well factions of scientists within the EPA itself.
Kasich Signed A Bill Killing Local Democracy in OH
Dec. 22, 2016 4:05 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The Republican Party's worship of so-called local democracy and states' rights is a scam - and John Kasich just proved it.
On Monday, while most of the world was busy watching twin tragedies unfold in Berlin and Ankara, the Ohio governor signed a bill that effectively killed local democracy in his state's biggest city - Cleveland.
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