Month: May 2016

No Former GOP Presidential Nominees Have Endorsed Trump

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The Republican Party, which is on track to nominate a candidate that defies party orthodoxy on everything from trade to nuclear nonproliferation, is going through a generational change. And nothing illustrates Trump’s departures from the rest of his adopted party like the near total silence from former Republican presidential nominees on Trump’s nativist campaign. Mitt Romney,… Continue reading “No Former GOP Presidential Nominees Have Endorsed Trump” →

Trump may be first presidential nominee to stand trial for fraud

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Festejan 5 de mayo con piñatas de Donald Trump

We have’t heard the last of Trump University and a fraud case where, for the first time ever, a presidential candidate will likely testify in his own defense in a trial where is being sued for fraud. In the meantime, the details of the Trump Institute-the scam which preceded Trump University-are relatively unknown. Yet they are… Continue reading “Trump may be first presidential nominee to stand trial for fraud” →

John Kasich’s Disastrous Campaign Proves How Ignorant the Majority of Republicans Are

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‘Way to milk it’: Gov. John Kasich drops out of race really, really bit by bit

I’ll be the first to admit that I am by no means an expert on John Kasich. I don’t live in Ohio and I didn’t pay attention to politics nearly as closely as I do now when he was a member of Congress. This article isn’t about breaking down who Kasich is, how disastrous he might… Continue reading “John Kasich’s Disastrous Campaign Proves How Ignorant the Majority of Republicans Are” →

So Sue Them: What We’ve Learned About the Debt Collection Lawsuit Machine

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Debt Collectors Adopt Mob Tactics as Russians Struggle to Pay Bills by NEIL MacFARQUHAR

Millions of Americans live with the possibility that, at any moment, their wages or the cash in their bank accounts could be seized over an old debt. It’s an easily ignored part of America’s financial system, in part due to a common attitude that people who don’t pay their debts deserve what’s coming to them. A… Continue reading “So Sue Them: What We’ve Learned About the Debt Collection Lawsuit Machine” →