Trump’s “Condolences and Sympathies” Won’t Cut It
Keith Olbermann's perfect takedown of the modern—and incredibly incorrect—interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Kneeling for Life and Liberty Is Patriotic
Conor Friedersdorf for The Atlantic:
These original patriots risked death and pledged their sacred honor to those truths, for which they are properly honored, even in spite of their serious failures. Now as then, allegiance to those Founding principles is what defines a patriotic American, not whether he or she stands or kneels while an anthem about the flag is performed.
Trump is not a patriot. He is a self-aggrandizing narcissist with racist and fascist sympathies who used race-batiing and fear-mongering to further his own fortunes. He does not care about America, or it's dream. He doesn't care about its people, just himself and select progeny. The real patriots stand—or kneel—in opposition to Trump.
Bernie Sanders Just Released His Single-Payer Health Care Plan
From Patrick Caldwell's article for Mother Jones:
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Saders (I-Vt.) introduced an ambitious proposal to transition the country away from a system of private health insurance, with the government instead offering a beefed up version of Medicare to every person in the country. “Health care in American must be a right, not a privilege,” Sanders said. ‘Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace of the United States, our great nation, being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people. As proud Americans, our job is to lead the world on health care, not to be woefully behind every other major country.
The healthcare fight is far from over, but I'm glad we have someone like Sanders fighting that fight.