Hilary Clinton takes a fair amount of criticism for her willingness to compromise her positions from people who aren’t her supporters on the left. I heard an interview with her which was very illuminating the other day in this regard. The interview was from when she was running against Obama in the Democratic primaries. During
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Eric J Rhoades
O.k. a rather inflammatory title, but bear with me, let’s think about this for a moment. If we take a big picture view of the forces which are shaping the global economy it may be possible to make the argument that income and wealth Inequality serve a purpose. This would be primarily because in an
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Bernie Sanders health care plan has come under a great deal of scrutiny over it’s cost, in the arguments over that we need to be aware of a very important fact. Sander’s plan would save us, not cost us money. Every developed country which has universal single payer health care spends less in health care
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Let me be upfront about this, for years I have argued in favor of gun control, but there is a huge problem with this issue, and that is that the more we argue in favor of gun control the quantity of guns sold keeps going up. Fact is gun manufacturers and the NRA both benefit
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Bernie Sanders is attracting a lot of support, it isn’t unusual to see newsworthy items about him concerning the size of the crowds he is drawing and the number of donors he has attracted. For someone who is a self-proclaimed Socialist, (more properly he is a Social Democrat in the Scandinavian style), that is unheard of for U.S.
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There is an increasing amount of conversation about the development of artificial intelligence, with a great many smart people coming out to warn of what this could lead to. Most scenarios concern things along the lines of if AI believes humans compete with it for energy it may decide it is better off eliminating humans,
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So due to a software vulnerability the Sanders campaign was able to access, and attempted to download, Clinton campaign data relating to voter databases. As a result, the DNC, which hosts these databases, denied the Sanders campaign access to its own files as punishment. This caused a popular backlash amongst Sander’s supporters and resulted in
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The division and breakdown of peoples is a fascinating subject. If we consider our daily lives we spend countless hours dealing with people with whom we may have widely differing opinions on how things should work. Many of these people, neighbors, co-workers, vendors, we are probably friendly with. If something happened where one of these
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Conservatives like to tout the natural power of the U.S. economy, how it is due to our free markets that we have an economy so large, and one capable doing so well while others falter. Yet does this really hold water? What is the driving force behind the U.S. economy? Interestingly enough it isn’t how our
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It is ironic that the U.S. can spend so much time and energy training soldiers and police in nations like Iraq and Afghanistan when we seem to be becoming aware of shortcomings in our own police forces. Quite obviously there is a need here to address problems in policing methods, as we seem to veer
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