https://pilotonline.com/opinion/editorial/cartoons/image_3bffbca0-44fb-11e9-a289-bfc1170c6e40.html
Steve Carlson nailed it. Not wealthy, no justice.
Author: lenrothman
Coal country is broke no thanks to Trump
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kentucky-sheriff-cuts-20190304-story.html
This ran in the Sunday Pilot, but their search engine is past redemption. Here are the essentials.
And people wonder why some sour on American capitalism
“GSO Capital Partners, a unit of Blackstone Group LP, agreed to lend money to Hovnanian on the condition that the company default on a small portion of its bonds, in an effort to trigger a payout on credit-default swaps.”
The financial sector is huge, accounting for 20% of GDP.
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Trump budget classic GOP agenda of “borrow and spend”
During the Obama administration we managed to take a $1.4 Trillion deficit to around $600 Billion by the time the Trump regime took power.
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Democrats blamed for Republican election fraud in NC. Say what?
Apparently McConnell thinks Americans are inherently ignorant.
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Drug dealers charged with murder? How about Big Pharma?
https://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/national/article_1bdc2f89-a6d2-5860-92a9-a2fda249f91b.html
For decades Big Pharma has been flooding the market with highly addictive opioids with phony literature and sales pitches to doctors saying there is no danger. When in fact they knew otherwise but the money was too good.
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Gun Lobby at it again: target practice against Democrats
Headlines and photo placements are deliberate design constructs to draw attention to an article.
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Nuclear technology to the Saudis. Really?
Saudi Arabia, the source of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers and ground zero for Sunni extremism, is being fast tracked for American nuclear technology. And there seems to be an effort by the administration to bypass Congressional oversight and approval as required by law.
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National emergency? Not so much.
Let’s look at what is being ignored while Trump tends to his personal ego emergency.
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