Bernie Sanders Outrages Evangelical Republicans With The Idea Of A Socialist Jesus

Bernie Sanders Outrages Evangelical Republicans With The Idea Of A Socialist Jesus Evangelicals are incensed by ideas of a socialist Jesus, but facts are facts - Jesus, like Bernie Sanders, championed the poor, not the rich     Read more »

Exclusionary Anti-immigrant Rhetoric Dooms GOP’s Chances To Win Over Asian-American Voters Asian voters are defecting from voting Republican at an even faster rate than Latino voters are moving to the left.     Read more » Editorial Cartoon: Blowing His Own Horn Notes from a blowhard...     Read more » Supporters Respond To Pro-Clinton Super PAC Smears By Donating $1.2 Million To Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders supporters responded to an ugly smear campaign carried out by a pro-Clinton super PAC by donating $1.2 million to the Sanders campaign in less than 48 hours.     Read more » Fact Check: Hillary Clinton Says Having A Democrat In The White House Is Better For Economy Hillary Clinton told Wolf Blitzer that the economy performs better under Democratic presidents. Let's look at the data to see if Clinton's statement matches up with the facts.     Read more » Carly Fiorina Peddles Shameful Lies About Planned Parenthood To Push Her Candidacy Fiorina built her debate "victory" on a bed of lies, including her false memory of non-existent footage in the Planned Parenthood videos     Read more » Bernie Sanders Demolishes Republicans For Blaming Falsely Obama For Every Problem Bernie Sanders was a one-man fact bomb on CNN, as the Democratic presidential candidate told the truth about the Republican pattern of falsely blaming President Obama for every problem.     Read more » CNN’s Trump Hysteria Backfires As Republican Debate Ratings Drop CNN wanted to break Fox News's record for biggest debate audience, but their bloated three-hour Republican candidate death march had one million fewer viewers than the first debate.     Read more » Bernie Sanders Outrages Evangelical Republicans With The Idea Of A Socialist Jesus Evangelicals are incensed by ideas of a socialist Jesus, but facts are facts - Jesus, like Bernie Sanders, championed the poor, not the rich     Read more » Even Donald Trump Is Complaining About CNN’s Horrible Trump Obsession CNN has managed to do the impossible. They have gone so far with their Trump obsessed coverage, that even Donald Trump himself complained about it during an interview on MSNBC.     Read more » Obama Vows To Veto Republican Bill To Defund Planned Parenthood While the Republican presidential candidates were grandstanding on Planned Parenthood, President Obama hit Republicans with reality when he issued a veto threat that promised to reject the GOP attempts to defund the organization.     Read more » Pope Francis Warns Churches To Practice Religion Or Start Paying Taxes The Pope is put off that there are churches that would rather use buildings they own to make money than to house refugees     Read more » Mike Huckabee is an Awful Human Being and Needs to Go Mike Huckabee has amply demonstrated has lack of presidential bona fides over the span of two debates and appalling comments in between     Read more »

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The Wall Street Journal's number is entirely bogus

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I've had so many calls about an article appearing earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal -- charging that Bernie Sanders’s proposals would carry a “price tag” of $18 trillion over a 10-year period -- that it's necessary to respond.

The Journal's number is entirely bogus, designed to frighten the public. Please spread the truth:

(1) Bernie’s proposals would cost less than what we’d spend without them. Most of the “cost” the Journal comes up with—$15 trillion—would pay for opening Medicare to everyone. This would be cheaper than relying on our current system of for-profit private health insurers that charge you and me huge administrative costs, advertising, marketing, bloated executive salaries, and high pharmaceutical prices. (Gerald Friedman, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, estimates a Medicare-for-all system would actually save all of us $10 trillion over 10 years).

(2) The savings from Medicare-for-all would more than cover the costs of the rest of Bernie’s agenda—tuition-free education at public colleges, expanded Social Security benefits, improved infrastructure, and a fund to help cover paid family leave – and still leave us $2 trillion to cut federal deficits for the next ten years.

(3) Many of these other “costs" would also otherwise be paid by individuals and families -- for example, in college tuition and private insurance. So they shouldn't be considered added costs for the country as a whole, and may well save us money.

(4) Finally, Bernie’s proposed spending on education and infrastructure aren’t really “spending” at all, but investments in the nation’s future productivity. If we don’t make them, we’re all poorer.

That Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal would do this giant dump on Bernie, based on misinformation and distortion, confirms Bernie's status as the candidate willing to take on the moneyed interests that the Wall Street Journal represents.

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Robert Reich: Why Defunding Planned Parenthood Is an All-out Attack on American Families

Planned Parenthood is under attack and it’s up to all of us to fight back.

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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

September 17, 2015

Robert Reich: 'When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street.'

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On Thursday, right-wing extremists in the U.S. House of Representatives will vote to try to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of women’s health care and family planning services.

Planned Parenthood is under attack and it’s up to all of us to fight back.  Any society that respects women must respect their right to control their own bodies.  There is a strong moral case to be made for this — but this video isn’t about that.  This is about the economics of family planning – which are one more reason it’s important for all of us to stand up and defend Planned Parenthood.

Reproductive rights, family planning, and women’s health are all interrelated. All girls and women need full information and access to family planning services, including abortion—regardless of their income level—so they can determine if or when they have children.

Public investments in family planning—enabling women to plan, delay, or avoid pregnancy– make economic sense, because reproductive rights are also productive rights. When women have control over their lives, they can contribute even more to the economy, better break the glass ceiling, equalize the pay gap, and much more.

Take the state of Colorado’s highly successful family planning program. Over the past six years, in Colorado health department has offered teenagers and low-income women free long-acting birth control that prevents pregnancy over several years. Pregnancy and abortion rates plunged—by about 40 percent among teenagers across the state from 2009 to 2013.

In 2009, half of all first births to women in the poorest areas of the state occurred before they turned 21. But by 2014, half of first births did not occur until the women had turned 24, a difference that gives young women time to finish their education and obtain better jobs.

Nationally, evidence shows that public investments in family planning result in net public savings of about $13.6 billion a year—over $7 for every public dollar spent.

This sum doesn’t include the billions of additional dollars saved by enabling women who may not be financially able to raise a child and do not want to have a child or additional children to stay out of poverty.

Yet, over the last five years Republicans have cut 10 percent of the Title X federal budget for family planning, which also pays for critical services such as cancer screenings and HIV tests. And the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee has gone as far as trying to eliminate the program.

Meanwhile, many states have been cutting or eliminating family-planning funds.  This isn’t just morally wrong; its bad economics.

Obviously, these crass economic numbers don’t nearly express the full complexity of the national debate around abortion and family planning. And they help make the case that we all benefit when society respects women to control their bodies and plan their families.

Please watch my latest video, which includes the economic argument for funding family planning and women’s health services, and why it’s critical that all of us step up right now to defend Planned Parenthood.

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"Planned Parenthood is under attack and it’s up to all of us to fight back," Robert Reich wrote this week. "Any society that respects women must respect their right to control their own bodies.  There is a strong moral case to be made for this — but this video isn’t about that.  This is about the economics of family planning – which are one more reason it’s important for all of us to stand up and defend Planned Parenthood."

He's spot on and we must stand with him in defending the rights of all women. Sign the petition and show you stand with Planned Parenthood! 

Robert B. Reich has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He also served on President Obama's transition advisory board. His latest book is "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future." His homepage is www.robertreich.org.

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GOP Debate: More Whoppers Than Burger King

GOP Debate: More Whoppers Than Burger 

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Posted: 17 Sep 2015 11:06 AM PDT

By Doug Porter

When there’s a stage full of candidates from a party with a tenuous connection to reality, there’s bound to be soooo many ‘misstatements’ to chose from. I’ve winnowed it down to what I thought were the two biggest: Carly Fiorina’s Planned Parenthood utterances and The Donald’s validation of an anti-vaxxer talking point…  I originally thought about doing a running fact check on Wednesday’s CNN debate featuring their top 10 (plus 1) Republican candidates. But with two hours and forty-five minutes to digest, I realized it would be a fool’s errand.  Then it occurred to me that the act of watching CNN for anything longer than a minute or two was, in itself, a fool’s errand. Especially on a day when the weather was actually nice. So I resolved to get up extra early to do my due diligence on the debate. This wrap-up took a while to write because I felt like I needed a shower afterwards. And I just skipped the Junior Varsity debate. I hear Trump won that one, too, despite not being on the stage.   [Read more...]

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San Diego’s Police Citizen Review Board Falls Short on Transparency, Accountability

Posted: 17 Sep 2015 07:59 AM PDT

Opportunity to provide citizen input at September 23 meeting

By Jeeni Criscenzo Four years ago today (September 17, 2011) the Occupy movement began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in Wall Street. Like wildfire the movement that defined Us (the 99%) vs Them (the 1%) spread from city to city. Three weeks later a large and exuberant crowd gathered in San Diego’s Children’s Park before marching defiantly to Civic Center Plaza, and Occupy San Diego was born. And from that emerged a group of mostly “mature” women (of which I was one) who used our experience and energy to advance the movement long after the camps in cities throughout the nation had been aggressively dismantled by an organized police campaign. It was in that “dismantling” that many of the original members of Women Occupy San Diego (WOSD) came face to face with the ugly underbelly of SDPD.   [Read more...]

How Our Stadium Saved Hilton’s Ego & Other Chuckles To Cry Over Posted: 17 Sep 2015 07:05 AM PDT As published by the original San Diego Free Press (circa 1968), we reprint the rundown on the Stadium in Mission Valley. Outside of the names and a few little details, you'll be surprised how little has changed. Part Two & Three of Two... Transcribed by John Lawrence / Original byline "Jim Knastick" Hi sports fans. Big Jim, again. Well, fans, last issue - - when we looked into that great muskmelon in Mission Valley - - we found a bill for $52 million addressed for the little taxpayer in San Diego and nothing but profits for local sports czars (your druggist knows them as merchants, financiers and industrialists). Current vignette, fans: Taking Care of Barron.  [Read more...]

California Poised to Take Major Step for Democracy Posted: 17 Sep 2015 06:51 AM PDT By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams California is poised to take a major step towards advancing voting rights for millions of citizens after the state legislature late last week approved a resolution that requires the automatic registration of all eligible voters. Proponents of the measure say that Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is expected to sign the bill, know as the California New Motor Voter Act. If that happens, the old, manual entry process would be replaced by a system that would automatically sign up California residents when they do business with the Department of Motor Vehicles as of January 2016. State officials estimate that the state has approximately 6.6 million eligible but unregistered voters who may soon be added to the voting rolls.   [Read more...]

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Actress Gets Offered Less Than Half Of Her Male Co-Star’s Pay, Says No Thanks

Actress Gets Offered Less Than Half Of Her Male Co-Star’s Pay, Says No Thanks

British actress Sienna Miller turned down a role on Broadway after she learned how much less she would be paid than her potential male co-star....(read more)

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Bankruptcy Complications From Elizabeth Warren for Both Hillary and Joe

Bankruptcy Complications From Elizabeth Warren for Both Hillary and Joe Michael T. Hertz: If you think that the impact of money in politics is central to our broken political system, you'll want Bernie Sanders for President over both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.  READ MORE shared from THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 Bankruptcy Complications From Elizabeth Warren for Both Hillary and Joe Michael T. Hertz: If you think that the impact of money in politics is central to our broken political system, you'll want Bernie Sanders for President over both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Weapons of Math Instruction John MacMurray: "Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Mayor Van Duyne said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute value." READ MORE A Black Woman’s Case for Atheism Sikivu Hutchinson:After a brief holding pattern, the resurgence of aggressive Christian fascist dogma and moral policing of women’s bodies is back on the rise. READ MORE GOP’s War on What’s Inside of Women Tina Dupuy: By my count there are 163 candidates battling for the Republican nomination and not one of them thinks women should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. READ MORE Be Like Ike: Give Safe Haven to War Refugees Williams Lambers:Eisenhower ordered food and other assistance for the refugees. Welcome kits were provided. Ike met Hungarian refugees at the White House. READ HERE (Sponsor this newsletter) Our email address is:  dick_and_sharon @yahoo.com Mt. Washington, California 90065 Copyright ©2015, LA Progressive, All rights reserved.

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