Watch: Bernie Sanders Schools Rand Paul On Why Healthcare Is A Right

In this astonishing clip, Bernie Sanders destroys Rand Paul for his offensive remarks on American healthcare. The now presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) believes that a “right to healthcare” is another term for slavery. 

“You have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. It means you have the right to come to my house and conscript me. Means you believe in slavery. It means you’re not only going to enslave me, but enslave the janitors at my hospitals, the orderlies, the nurses.”

It is an astonishingly callous statement from someone who dares to call himself a physician (Paul is not a certified doctor).

Sanders then asks a nurse at a public clinic whether or not she feels like she is a “slave”, which she obviously does not: 

“I love my job, I do not feel like a slave.” Sanders then goes on to ridicule Paul’s atrocious remarks, which the panel finds quite amusing.

Rand Paul seems to have a very twisted view on what “rights” are, and appears to believe that it entails forcing people to do things to fulfill those rights. Remember that when the election comes around; this man thinks he can be our president some day.

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New Poll Shows the Bernie Sanders Surge Is Spreading to Iowa

 By Gregory Krieg June 25, 2015

Bernie Sanders is surging in the Midwest.

A new Bloomberg poll out of Iowa shows the independent senator from Vermont closing the gap on Hillary Clinton, with Clinton falling to 50% support among likely Democratic caucus-goers as Sanders jumps to 24%. That margin represents a 16-point bounce from the 42-point gulf that existed between the candidates in early June.

Source: Mic/Bloomberg/Des Moines Register

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Shell Heads for Alaska While Awaiting Final Drilling Permits

Jun 26th, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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Shell Heads for Alaska While Awaiting Final Drilling Permits

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Jun 26, 2015, 3:42 PM ET

By DAN JOLING Associated Press

One Royal Dutch Shell offshore drill rig is headed to Alaska and a second is poised to leave, despite lacking final federal permits that would allow exploratory drilling and possible confirmation of rich oil reserves under the Chukchi Sea.

A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC said that’s routine. But an attorney for Oceana, one of dozens of groups objecting to Arctic offshore drilling, said seeing Shell’s flotilla sail north puts pressure on federal agencies to sign off on the permits.

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Shell’s Secret Sale of Oil, Gas Reserves In Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Jun 26th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Shell’s Secret Sale of Oil, Gas Reserves In Bayelsa State, Nigeria

“We just woke up one morning and started reading in the newspapers and the electronic media that our oil fields have been sold by Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC) and acquired by an unknown company – Aiteo Eastern Exploration and production company limited…”

BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK: JUN 26, 2015

The Elders and Traditional Rulers of Nembe Kingdom, in Nembe Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State, have sent a protest letter to President Muhammad Buhari. The letter exposes secret sales of oil and gas reserves from the Area by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) without the involvement of the indigenes. The Nembe kingdom is one of the biggest on-shore oil producing communities in the Niger Delta, with the oil mining lease (OML) 29 producing over 150, 000 barrels of crude oil per day. The oil block covers an area of 983 square kilometres.

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The Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage

Robert Reich

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This morning a majority of the Supreme Court – the four Democratic appointees plus Anthony Kennedy (who wrote the majority opinion) – decided that the Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage, under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The four other Republican appointees dissented, saying the Constitution says nothing on the subject of same-sex marriage. (Of course not; it says nothing on the subject of black children in segregated schools, either. The document was intended to be interpreted.)

Any of you still cynical about the capacity of this nation to embrace social justice should think again. Not long ago, same-sex marriage was abhorrent to a majority of Americans. (In 2002, when I ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts and came out for same-sex marriage, not just civil union, my campaign advisors told me I’d just lost the race.) Yet polls now show most Americans approve of it, 36 states now allow it, and more than 70 percent of Americans live in places where gay couples can marry. Rarely in American history has positive social change on this scale happened so quickly.

There’s another lesson here. The Supreme Court is a powerful agent for good or ill. It often reflects changes in social norms, but not always. Four of the current Supreme Court Justices are over 70 years old. The next president will almost certainly be appointing one or more to replace them. Scalia, Alito, and Thomas are rabid reactionaries, and Roberts isn’t far behind them. If nothing else moves you to become more politically active in the run-up to the 2016 election, this reality alone should.

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