Author: Joshua De Leon

New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate, Chris Christie, stood by his hate of teachers unions, reported CBS News. He famously stated that the unions should be “punched in the face”, and he has doubled down on that sentiment by saying the eradication of them would be “nirvana.” A pending case in the Supreme Court could make teachers’ unions “largely go away,” said Christie at an education summit in New Hampshire. “That would be a good thing for education in this country, no doubt,” he added. Earlier this month, Gov. Christie said that teachers’ unions deserve a “political punch...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seems to be at war against the corporate media as much as he’s at war against income inequality and Wall Street crime. A reporter from the Wall Street Journal tried to coax Sanders into attacking his opponent, Hillary Clinton. “[The people] are tired of a media which continues to want to have ‘gotcha’ questions and make conflict between the candidates rather than talking about the real issues impacting the America people,” said Sanders to a cheering crowd. Feel the...

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is getting dusted in the polls, and his brother, George W., is nowhere to be found. Talking Points Memo noted how Bush’s silence and invisibility is unusual for former presidents and that it may be because his tenure was disaster and the GOP wants to forget about it. George’s silence and invisibility is indicative of a larger mission being implemented by the GOP, reported TPM. During major election cycles, the Republicans don’t “trot out” legacy members of its party, but rather talk about how great Ronald Reagan was. The Democrats, however, still have Al...