Bernie Sanders’ heart attack may have turned 2020 into 1968. His campaign just sent out an e stating “Bernie is in good health and is in good spirits,” adding “The fact of the matter is he’s coming out of this healthier and stronger.” God, I hope so. But questions about a candidate’s health can be fatal. Ten-term Congressman Walter Baring, D-Nev., kept his 1972 St. Mary’s … [Read more...]
Sanders Still Wants a Revolution, but Now He’s Got Company
By Will Weissert Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders is still leading a revolution. But his ideas no longer feel quite so revolutionary. The Vermont senator acknowledges that many of his top proposals, which were dismissed as radical four years ago, have been adopted by much of the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary field: “Medicare for All,” … [Read more...]
Sanders Accuses Biden of Distorting ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
By Scott Sonner Associated Press CARSON CITY — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday of distorting his proposal to provide single-payer, universal health care through “Medicare for All.” Campaigning in the early caucus state of Nevada, the 78-year-old Vermont senator said one of the things that disturbed him … [Read more...]
Our Media’s Terrible Performance
As the 2016 presidential sails into the sunset, one fact ought to concern Americans who rely on an independent press for information – a good many reporters were not independent at all. They worked hand-in-glove with the Clinton campaign against both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Consider the emails released by Wikileaks -- emails that would have remained secret, but now … [Read more...]
Elect Bernie Sanders president for good of nation
Among the welter of Republican candidates and the few Democrats running for president, Bernie Sanders is far and away the best. Senator Sanders, Vermont Democrat, socialist and presidential candidate, recently declared that immigrants should be welcomed and assimilated, not stigmatized and criminalized, as some Republicans insist on. Sanders would protect young immigrants … [Read more...]
Weekend at Bernie’s with Eugene McCarthy’s grandchildren
Her grandfather avoids politics “because we got burned by Eugene McCarthy.” His 20-something granddaughter has traveled here for the past several weeks to campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont. The Asian-American California girl (anyone the age of my granddaughters is a girl) attended last Friday’s Democratic Party Virginia Demmler Dinner at the Downtown Reno … [Read more...]
Weekly outrage, cheers for Sanders and fraudulent voter ID
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch rightly detests cellphones and cameras being punched and flashed while he is acting. The Digital Age has long since become the Insensitive and Discourteous Age. During his recent performance of “Hamlet” at the Barbican in London, Cumberbatch was about to deliver the “To be or not to be” soliloquy when a red light flashed from the third … [Read more...]
Washington mess gets messier
Last week Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination received a powerful one-two punch to the abdomen. The first blow came when it was revealed that her opponent in the primary, Bernie Sanders, surpassed her in the latest New Hampshire poll. The second came when she had to respond to a request to turn over her email server to the FBI. In response to … [Read more...]