Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his military service on Saturday, saying McCain “was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” The other Republican presidential hopefuls were quick to condemn his remarks, and on Sunday CNN “State of the Union” host […]
Have you ever noticed there are no conservative comedians – you ever wonder why? Michael Moore and John Fugelsang explain the function of humor and politics. The Left Forum has been bringing together leftists of all kinds since 1981. A “culmination of the creative efforts of thousands of participants,” the Left Forum is a “unique […]
Remember the time Rick Perry was unable to remember the three federal agencies he would cut if elected president? Perry, the governor of Texas at the time, was debating other Republican presidential hopefuls back in 2011 when he responded with the following in the middle of one of his answers: I will tell you: It’s […]
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the 72-year-old Vermont socialist is surging in the Democratic Primary against Hillary Clinton with “free education in one fist, single-payer healthcare in the other.” Bill Curry of Salon wrote that “Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders” […]
One of the best known speeches by Frederick Douglass is “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” – delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. The speech, given at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was filled with biting oratory in which the abolitionist leader told his […]