Tag: Bernie Sanders

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., this week posed for a selfie with The Anti-Fascist Handbook, billed as a relatively new historical look at anti-fascism movements past and present. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

Red Alert Politics

Conservative students blast Dem Rep. Keith Ellison’s ‘irresponsible and foolhardy’ embrace of Antifa

Neil Dwyer · January 5, 2018 5:01 am

The British government-run National Health Service has abruptly canceled 50,000 nonemergency surgeries due to overcrowding at hospitals this winter. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Socialized medicine update: Britain cancels 50,000 surgeries as NHS hospitals face winter crisis

Philip Klein · January 3, 2018 3:11 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted late Sunday: "In 2018, we will not only intensify the struggle against Trumpism, we will increase our efforts to spread the progressive vision in every corner of the land." ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Bernie Sanders vows to ‘intensify’ fight against Trump in 2018

Caitlin Yilek · January 1, 2018 5:58 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wrote opinion pieces for both the Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader to explain that the new tax impacting Berea College as a result of the tax overhaul spearheaded by GOP leadership should be pinned on the "hypocrisy coming from Senate Democrats." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell dukes it out with Kentucky newspapers over tax on Berea College

Daniel Chaitin · December 30, 2017 9:04 pm

Kevin Nicholson, who is running in a Republican primary for Senate, said: "I think [Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.,] embodies many of the worst impulses of the Democratic Party, to patronize people, to in no way shape or form focus on opening up opportunities for them, to appeal to peoples' instinct to view each other as competing interests, not as fellow Americans." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Beltway Confidential

Tammy Baldwin ’embodies’ worst of the Democratic Party, says Wisconsin Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson

Emily Jashinsky · December 30, 2017 2:26 pm

Drunk tanks are mobile medical facilities that provide for intoxicated morons who render themselves incapable on a night out. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Drunks in the UK explain the problem with socialized medicine

Tom Rogan · December 29, 2017 9:15 pm

In light of Doug Jones' rise to the U.S. Senate, Democrats should open their primaries to independents. But if they don't take the lessons of Alabama's special election seriously, they may not necessarily have the upper hand in 2018. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Democrats are making a mistake in failing to open their primaries to independents

adam-morfeld · December 28, 2017 5:01 am

The independent senator from Vermont was born and raised in Brooklyn, which Bill de Blasio represented as a city council member. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bernie Sanders to swear in New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

Ariella Phillips · December 27, 2017 11:03 pm

Obama beat Trump 17 percent to 14 percent, making it the 10th year in a row the former president has earned the title. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Obama beats Trump as most admired man: Poll

Caitlin Yilek · December 27, 2017 4:58 pm

Republican senators have argued that any bill that offers relief to those protected by Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals must also address "negative side effects." President Trump has endorsed their efforts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Under Trump, immigration hawks learn the ‘Art of the Deal’

W. James Antle III · December 27, 2017 5:01 am

If others have had to resign in disgrace over sexual misconduct allegations, then President Trump's treatment of women also merits a resignation, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Sunday. (AP Images)

Bernie Sanders: If Al Franken has to resign for sexual harassment, ‘it would be appropriate’ for Trump to resign too

Mandy Mayfield · December 24, 2017 3:19 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. signals a thumbs-up as he leaves the Senate chamber. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate narrowly passes GOP tax cuts, sends back to House for one last vote

Joseph Lawler · December 20, 2017 5:46 am