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Yankeestorm is a Nashville, TN attorney and the baseball expert on "Prime Time Sports" 1510 WLAC. A native a Newark, NJ, Norm is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Drake Law. He currently resides in Nashville.
SHARE Saturday, September 2, 2023 Backers of Endless War Deplore That Many Trump Supporters Favor Using Violence
Ever since Donald Trump became a former pres., news outlets & commentators have cited polls showing that many Republicans believe violence might be needed to save the country. As Trump's legal woes increase, so do mainstream media alarms about the specter of violent responses. But we've heard virtually nothing about connections between two decades of nonstop U.S. warfare overseas & attitudes favoring political violence at home
SHARE Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Showdown in Nevada as Democratic Establishment Targets Party Chair
To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, it's helpful to recall the panicked reaction from political elites three years ago when results came in from the state's contest for the presidential nomination.
SHARE Tuesday, January 17, 2023 So Much for the Idea That Biden Is the One to Beat the GOP in 2024
For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024...
But now, the bottom has dropped out of that timeworn spin for Biden in the wake of the discovery of unsecured classified documents under his control, the appointment of a special counsel to investigate and the botched handling of the scandal by the White House.
SHARE Tuesday, February 1, 2022 100 U.S. Organizations Release Statement Urging Biden "to End the U.S. Role in Escalating" the Ukraine Crisis
More than 100 national and regional U.S. organizations released a joint statement Tuesday urging President Biden "to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine." The groups said "it is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons."
(16 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not 'Whistleblowers' -- They're Cruel Vigilantes
As a journalist and activist, I've worked with a range of genuine whistleblowers during the last several decades. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they ended up tangling with institutions ranging from the Pentagon and CIA to the National Security Agency and the Veterans Administration. Their personalities and outlooks varied greatly, but none of them were bullies. None of them wanted to threaten or harm powerless people
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 27, 2021 Joe Biden's Relapse into Hallucinations About GOP Leaders
For a while, President Biden seemed to be recovering from chronic fantasies about Republicans in Congress. But last week he had a relapse -- harming prospects for key progressive legislation and reducing the already slim hopes that the GOP can be prevented from winning control of the House and Senate in midterm elections 15 months from now.
Biden's reflex has been to gladhand his way across the aisle.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 5, 2020 Elizabeth Warren: Which Side Are You On?
with corporate Democrat Joe Biden enjoying sudden momentum and mega-billionaire Mike Bloomberg joining forces with him, an urgent question hovers over Warren. It's a time-honored union inquiry: "Which side are you on?"
How Warren answers that question might determine the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In the process, she will profoundly etch into history the reality of her political character.
SHARE Monday, November 11, 2019 Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge
If Uncle Scrooge existed as a billionaire in human form today, it's easy to picture him aligned with fellow plutocrats against the "threat" of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 29, 2019 The Primary Contradiction: Corporate Power vs. Progressive Populism
For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming. The 2020 presidential election could turn out to be a real-life horror movie: A Nightmare on Wall Street.
SHARE Saturday, March 30, 2019 Pelosi and McConnell: Cranking Up Bipartisan Madness for NATO
When NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg gives his speech to the assembled members of Congress next Wednesday, you can count on the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader to be right behind him. The bipartisan enthusiasm will be obvious -- in tribute to a militarized political culture that is vastly profitable for a few, while vastly destructive in countless ways.
SHARE Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Being Better Than Republicans Is Not Good Enough
Winning elective power can and must be part of social movements that are engaged in wresting power away from dominant authorities in an array of walks of life while nurturing alternative institutions. Progressive power of enduring value grows from deep roots in communities, with huge potential to weaken the undemocratic power of the current oligarchy.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 11, 2019 Joe Biden on the relaunch pad: He's worse than you thought
Biden makes clear his distaste for the current progressive populist wave. "I know some want to single out big corporations for all the blame," he wrote in a blog post. "It is true that the balance has shifted too much in favor of corporations and against workers. But consumers, workers, and leaders have the power to hold every corporation to a higher standard.
SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2019 Bernie Sanders' Delegates Ready for Another Run
Three out of four former delegates for Bernie Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention now say he's their first choice to be the party's 2020 presidential nominee, while one out of 20 say he isn't their first choice, according to a poll conducted in late December.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2018 The Backstory on the Pelosi Leadership Flap
Pelosi is a longtime wizard at generating and funneling hundreds of millions of election-cycle dollars, and as speaker she'll wield enormous power over committee assignments. But she must keep Democratic House members minimally satisfied -- and along the way that should mean yielding more power to the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2017 The Ghost of Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey wanted to pretend that war abroad could be compatible with a great society at home. Today, at the top of the Democratic Party, the pretense is similar, as if continual U.S. warfare overseas can coexist with some kind of decent social policy at home. The mix of delusion and deception continues to cause vast human suffering.