A survey the Harris Poll conducted last week for the Ctr. for American Political Studies at Harvard Univ. concluded registered voters nationwide (of whom 2,068 were sampled) have a more favorabl...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2023/07/of-major-parties-contenders-for-potus.html
Three times in the past month, digital editor Carmen Rios of feminist magazine Ms. has openly wished for the death of Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2016 became the first Jewish presidential can...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2017/05/digital-editor-of-ms-magazine-calls-for.html
In a "fireside chat" on February 8 about continued work of her party, former Green presidential nominee Jill Stein MD briefly discussed a status that appeared the previous day on her account on ...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2017/04/dems-avoid-self-help-continue-to.html
As we conclude the year of the most surreal election ever, here is how I would cast -- and otherwise employ -- its candidates in a production of Alice in Wonderland, which is based on the books A...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/12/presidential-aspirants-of-2016-present.html
Contrary to the notion according to which the Green Party robustly campaigns only for president, I assembled this incomplete list of contenders who -- in elections that ended on Nov. 8 -- drew a...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/11/down-ballot-green-party-grows-in-reach.html
In 2012, Jill Stein MD defeated comedian Roseanne Barr for the presidential nomination of the Green Party and scored the highest percentage of the popular vote any woman had ever amassed in a g...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/11/jill-stein-for-president.html
Delaware is the 20th state to prohibit execution. In Nebraska, application of the ban on capital punishment is postponed because an initiative to restore it will appear on the ballot there on ...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/08/commendation-to-de-for-its-abolition-of.html
Sanders (Gage Skidmore) True to his word, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) campaigned through the final weeks of Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses. In that period, most of the p...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-bernies-voters-should-reject-his.html
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In April, Pennsylvania became the 25th state to allow for medicinal cannabis. Enactment of a law in Ohio yesterday means most states in this country now do. Meanwhile, the acting administra...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/06/acclaim-to-pa-oh-for-their-legalization.html
Clinton (Dept. of State) Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton's victory in the Democratic presidential primary in New York was portrayed as epic by corporate media even though she had b...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/05/those-yet-to-vote-in-dems-race-for-pres.html
Sanders (berniesanders.com) The primaries/caucuses that will lead to allocation of over 45% of pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention, which is where the presidential nomin...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/03/pundits-call-race-at-halfway-point-hope.html
Sanders (Robert Turtil / Dept. of Veterans' Affairs) Now that ex-governor Martin O'Malley (D-MD) has terminated his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the only contenders for ...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-clintons-third-inevitability-is.html
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Propaganda according to which ex-senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) would have a better chance to win the general election than would Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) -- who is her chief rival for the De...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/01/beating-back-biased-behavior-that.html
Last night, as she did in 2014 and 2015, Councilwoman Kshama Sawant PhD of Seattle, who is a member of the Socialist Alternative Party and was re-elected in November, rebutted the annual speech...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2016/01/socialist-response-to-state-of-union.html
Here is an incomplete list I assembled of candidates of the Green Party who won -- or did well in -- elections that ended on November 3. Because full tabulation of ballots often takes weeks or...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/12/victories-and-good-showings-for-greens.html
The departure by ex-governor Lincoln Chafee (D-RI), by Professor Lawrence Lessig and by ex-senator James Webb (D-VA) from the Democratic presidential contest, and the decision by Vice President ...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/11/clearer-contrast-btn-hillary-bernie-as.html
As rising support for Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) brought an end to the first-place status of ex-sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in polling about the two earliest contests in the race for the Dem...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/09/more-prominent-allies-of-hillary-are.html
In the heat of the most tumultuous year in American history, the flagship of each wing of the bald eagle met in the eye of the storm and, before the eyes of the nation, actualized the quintessenc...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/07/preview-of-best-of-enemies-which-opens.html
Two members of Congress who have endorsed the presidential candidacy of former senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) were not ready to wait for a truthful basis on which to attack her main rival for the...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/07/already-desperate-hillary-surrogates.html
Although the break by the United States from the United Kingdom was declared on July 4, 1776, the vote by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress to officially adopt independence occurr...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/07/today-is-real-independence-day.html
Laws in 24 states and in three territories now reflect an awareness, a sensibility and a compassion the federal government continues to resist for reasons it does not make clear, although they m...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/07/acclaim-to-louisiana-for-legalizing.html
Vincent Bugliosi, who died Saturday, was known mostly as the lawyer who carried out the successful prosecution of Charles Manson for his notorious murders and who chronicled that prosecution in ...
https://politicsofcourage.blogspot.com/2015/06/mourning-diligent-intrepid-champion-of.html