Author: Joshua De Leon

Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker all hate teachers and teachers’ unions. Now, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) has joined the anti-teacher fold, reported RawStory. Granted, Kasich isn’t as insane as his fellow Republicans, but he’s still in the ballpark. Speaking about teachers, Kasich said “If I were, not president, if I were king in America, I would abolish all teachers’ lounges where they sit together and worry about ‘woe is me.’” Kasich would rather them feel like that at home after he fires them all and privatizes education. The Republican anti-teacher mission reemerged in...

At least 32 million names, addresses, and phone numbers have been released in the massive Ashley Madison hack. A various number of politicians were found to have been included in the recent data dump. One such politician is Jason Dore, Executive Director of the Louisiana Republican Party. According to Dore, he only created an account for “opposition research” to dig up dirt on his political rivals. Is that true, or is he covering himself? Dore used to run a law firm, and he claimed to have done the research for political purposes. “As the state’s leading opposition research firm, our...

CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about Pope Francis and capitalism, of which the pontiff is critical. In the hypothetical scenario that the pope would condemn capitalism to Trump, the real estate magnate said he’d respond by scaring the pope with ISIS. “ISIS wants to get you,” said Trump. “You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican – you have heard that. That’s a dream of theirs.” “I’m going to have to scare the pope,” he added. “The pope, I hope, can only be scared by God, but the truth is —...