What you say about Lee is true, but he did fight for slavery and against the US government, and there’s a difference between condemning someone and not lauding them.

Bullshit. What some random dude claims about Trump is not and should not be “news.” There is plenty of tough reporting to be done on Trump, and none of it needs to draw on tabloid-worthy rumors.

You give Reagan too much credit. He happened to be in office when the gradual decline of heavy industry became a crash, and he, like Thatcher in the UK, chose to exploit the crash to break the back of organized labor instead of stepping in to soften the blow (while simultaneously giving rich folks big tax cuts), but…

Have to wonder if the Pegulas are also why the Sabres are doing worse than expected this year. Glad to have the teams still in town, but unhappy to see them continue to wallow along in the bottom halves of their respective leagues.

Since when is the pronunciation of the word data a signal of how much someone knows about data analysis? (Me = degree in CS, years of experience in data analysis, use DAH-ta and DAY-ta interchangeably depending on context.)

The fact is that most “facts” are provisional truths. They are “to the best of our knowledge.” It is a fact that the BLS announced that the unemployment rate was 4.6% in November; it is also a fact that the official unemployment rate was 4.6% in November, but it is not a fact that 4.6% of Americans were unemployed in…

China will chastise Trump, but I doubt they will get too up in arms (literally or figuratively) about this. Their ministers read the news. They know who and what Trump is. Fortunately for us and even more fortunately for Trump, they will almost certainly give him a lot more leeway than they would have given Clinton.…

But how many times can one person “melt down”? According to the press, he’s melted down at least half a dozen times since 2015. What does he do in between melts? Is he any different after he congeals, or is he the same old fill-in-the-blank? Come on! Just call them temper tantrums or strategic delusional outbursts, or…

In what way is this a “meltdown”? This is Trump continuing to do what he has consistently done so well: muddy the waters so much that his followers are happy to follow and everybody else gets lost in the slime.

One legal expert said the settlement should have been for at least $50 million.

We should all register as Muslims if it comes to that.

I just saw that, and I’m very impressed. I’m used to thinking of the ADL as an organization that opposes affirmative action because it can’t see the difference between promoting opportunity and stifling opportunity, and that can’t tell the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. (These often go hand in hand;…

And just like that - POOF! - all mentions of $25 million dollar fraud-settlement, business meetings with Indian business partners, Ivanka sitting in on the meeting with Japanese leader - gone.

Conservatives who believe in freedom from government intervention (“interference”) in our lives are mythical creatures. Conservatives want to make you bring unwanted pregnancies to term, pray in school, and salute the flag, and they want to prevent you from expressing opinions they think you shouldn’t, marrying people…

1. Ellison is a great candidate for this position, both for the reasons you mentioned and because he is young, energetic, smart, likable, and strongly behind grassroots organizing.

I said “reckless.” And international connection is not modern. Marco Polo? British Empire? According to BLS, a bit more than 12% (one-eighth) of American workers are represented by unions, including 35% (more than one-third) of public sector workers. Union power is indeed way down, even way-way down, but unions are…

At their best, the GOP comes up with ideas that actually work. It’s not frequent, but, e.g., the Earned Income Tax Credit is a significant boon for low-income people who work. It doesn’t help those who can’t find a job, of course. Romeycare/Obamacare was not a great idea, but it held the promise of an advance on the…

No question. Deinduistrialization hit the Midwest hard in the late 1970s/early 1980s and relatively few places have had the resources, resilience, and leadership to rebuild a robust economic base. I lived in Buffalo for more than a decade, a place that is finally making some steps forward but continuing to lose…

You have a point. Even “socialist” Obama did not much distance himself from the DLC crew, which you can really see in his support for TPP and “frack baby frack,” for example. Furthermore, the party has a very real conflict of interest problem. Private sector unions are mostly dead, and the GOP will use the full force…

Bullshit. Racism and sexism should be called out. Scapegoating should be called out. And Democrats have tried to do this, pointing to the “1 percent” and the corporate rich who, mostly through GOP-supported policies, have enriched themselves while keeping most Americans’ incomes stagnant. But fear and resentment are…