Tag Archives: United States

NORML: U.S. Congress- Legislation Introduced To Get The Feds Out of The Marijuana Enforcement Business

Source:The New Democrat Representative Jared Polis has been against the War on Drugs and in favor of marijuana legalization as long as I’ve known of him and I believe he was elected to the House in 2007. And has worked … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Beth Ethier: Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Promotes Industrial Hemp

Source:The New Democrat  This might be the only bipartisan bill short of a federal budget and the appropriations bills that Congress may pass this year. At least in the Senate where I think Leader Mitch McConnell will have Democratic support … Continue reading

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The Hill: Kevin Cirilli- New Democrats Looking to Strike Against The Warren Wing

Source:The New Democrat Blogger Andrew Sullivan about a year or so ago wrote a piece called something to the effect “where is the liberal Tea Party”. Where is the liberal alternative to the Tea Party. And he was talking about … Continue reading

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Safvio: Bill Clinton- His Life

Source:The New Democrat Just to start off, you should know that I’m a big fan of Bill Clinton and a lot of my politics and own liberalism comes from him. And following his own career and he would’ve been someone … Continue reading

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Foreign Affairs: Kenan Malik: Why Multiculturalism Failed

Source:The New Democrat The Far-Left both in America and Europe put down America as being this country of racial and ethnic discrimination where the majority population is always putting down racial and ethnic minorities. While Europe on the other hand … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: ‘Venezuela & Cuba: Partners in Repression’

Source:The Washington Post– the paper of record. Source:The New Democrat  Just as Cuba has started to move away from Castro Marxism/authoritarianism and have opened up their economy and at least to a small extent their country, Venezuela has moved towards … Continue reading

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Foreign Affairs: Jose W. Fernandez & Eric Lorber: Opening Cuba to American Telecommunications Investment

Source:The New Democrat  I agree that opening up the Cuban telecommunications industry and allowing for others to be involved there outside of the Castro Regime is a way to not only open up Cuba and open up a better relationship … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: William Galston- The American People to its Leaders: Ground Troops Against ISIS & a Stronger National Defense

Source:The New Democrat I think its pretty clear about what we’ve learned in the last thirteen-years or so in our Middle East adventures. That if you try to defend and govern a country that won’t do that for themselves, then … Continue reading

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Matthew Hormann: The Hollywood Ten -1 950

. Source:The New Democrat I don’t want to sound overly partisan here, but this was one of the ugliest anti-American, anti-liberal democratic, illiberal periods in American history. Where Americans were judged by who they associated with and political causes they … Continue reading

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Jnuss Bau: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960

. Source:The New Democrat The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our time. I think elements of today’s Tea Party … Continue reading

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