by Elisabeth | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Politics
On Tuesday, just four days before South Carolina’s Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton took questions from voters at a lively CNN Town Hall in the newly de-battle flagged state capital of Columbia. Amid all the talk about Wall Street, racism, Donald...
by Elisabeth Parker | Dec 21, 2015 | News & Politics
The NRA And Their Bought-And-Paid-For Senators Have Blood On Their Hands. How can not one, but three gun bills fail to pass after two horrific mass shootings in just one week? How can our GOP-run congress remain so cruelly indifferent to our grief and outrage? Since...
by Elisabeth Parker | Dec 2, 2015 | News & Politics
Republicans are constantly howling about terrorist threats beyond our borders. Yet they ignore the looming threat of stochastic terrorism here at home. I recently wrote about why we should treat “shooters” and “bombers” as terroristic threats....
by Elisabeth Parker | Nov 22, 2015 | News & Politics
Welcome to the new class divide: good dental care, or the lack thereof. Any parent who has taken their son or daughter to their six-month checkup — while desperately praying their child won’t need braces or other expensive procedures — knows the...
by Elisabeth Parker | Oct 10, 2015 | News & Politics
We’ve seen the propaganda videos with ISIS parading through conquered territory in their shiny, new Toyota trucks. But how are they getting them? Yikes! Those evil, marauding terrorists from ISIS are still at large, but fear not: ISIS can’t escape from the U.S....
by Elisabeth Parker | Aug 22, 2015 | News & Politics
[Updated 03.16.2019] Top economists admit what we’ve known all along: Republicans’ cruel and senseless policies really ARE the greatest threat to our economy. Funny how it’s taken them this long to figure out that fighting costly wars, holding down wages,...
