Author: Gary Bentley

Republican representative Jason Chaffetz is continuing a long Republican tradition of attacking low income American citizens.  During an interview with CNN, he scolded low income Americans for buying iPhones instead of health insurance, and he said that these people may have to ditch the phones if they want to be healthy. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Cousins: Republican House Representative Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, went on CNN shortly after the Republicans unveiled their American Healthcare Act, and told the interviewer something that could be taken a little...

The Republicans in Washington have finally come up with a replacement for Obamacare, and they did it in just under a decade.  But their replacement plan is nothing to get excited about, and it will result in fewer people with insurance coverage and higher premiums for those who are already struggling. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: It only took them about seven years, but this week Republicans have finally released their replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. This has been something, again, they’ve been talking about for seven years, they’ve been...

Dr. Ben Carson stated during a speech this week that many “immigrants” came to the US in the bottom of slave ships and worked longer hours for less pay, but they did it because they had a dream of a better life for themselves and their children.  No, Ben, those were slaves.  They were brought here against their will to work for literally nothing. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Cousins: Dr. Ben Carson may have a PhD. He may have gone to medical school, but what this man really needs right now...

Establishment Democrats like David Brock and Peter Daou understand only one thing – money.  That’s what their careers have been based on.  They don’t want to help rebuild the Democratic Party or understand the populist uprising during the 2016 campaign, they just want to make as much money as possible while screwing over the rest of us. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcript of the above video: If you’ve never heard of a guy named Peter Dow, he was a Hillary Clinton campaign worker, big Hillary Clinton supporter, he’s the guy who if you go to his...

While it’s important that we know what Trump is doing as president, we can’t forget that there are other branches of government that deserve our attention, too.  Most notable, the US House of Representatives introduced a flurry of bills last week that the corporate media completely ignored – these bills could do very serious damage to the country, but the corporate media only seems interested in covering Donald Trump’s Twitter meltdowns. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: While we have all been distracted by Donald Trump for the last few months, whether...