Category Archives: The New Democrat

C-SPAN: Molly Worthen- Lectures in History: 20 Century Fundamentalism

Source:The New Democrat According to Wikipedia: A fundamentalist, “is a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion.” That could cover any religion anywhere in the world but generally its’s Protestants in America and Muslims … Continue reading

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The Real News: Paul Jay Interviewing Peter Kuznick- Undoing The New Deal

Source:The New Democrat I actually agree with Paul Jay on something here. ( For a change ) President Franklin Roosevelt, his Administration and Congress, didn’t create a socialist economic system in America for good reasons. They left the American capitalist … Continue reading

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Skeptic Magazine: How Michael Shermer Became a Card-Carrying Skeptic

Source:The New Democrat If you want to make this about religion, I come from a German-American family in Maryland, but my father is a hardcore card-carrying Atheist, who if anything has gone Communist when it comes to religion and perhaps … Continue reading

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The Film Archives: Book TV- U.S. Representative Bobby Rush- Interviewing Catherine Wilkerson: ‘The Legacy of The Weather Underground & The New Left Movement of The 1960s’

“Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last … Continue reading

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Movie Clips Trailer Vault: Groundhog Day (1993) Starring Bill Murray & Andie McDowell

Source:The New Democrat Groundhog is one of my favorite comedies from the 1990s as well as all time. Because the movie which obviously is not believable that a basically normal even narcissistic man like Phil Connors ( played by Bill … Continue reading

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Bloodletters & Badmen: Virginia Hill- Mistress To The Mob

Source:The New Democrat If you watch the movie Bugsy from 1991 with Warren Beatty playing Ben Siegel with Annette Being playing Siegel’s mistress Virginia Hill, the movie portrays Virginia as much more than a mobster’s mistress. Mistresses are common with … Continue reading

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The Rubin Report: Steve Davies: ‘The Difference Between Classical Liberals & Libertarians’

Source:The Rubin Report talking to Steve Davies from Learn Liberty. Source:The New Democrat “Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Steve Davies (Institute of Economic Affairs) about the difference between classical liberals and libertarians. This is part of our … Continue reading

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The Economist: Srdja Popovic Interviewing Bassem Youssef- Revolution For Dummies

Source:The New Democrat What I would say about this is that it takes a special type of narcissist to want to be a dictator, let alone actually be a dictator. Regardless of whatever authoritarian ideology you come from. Whether it’s … Continue reading

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Monologue: ‘Banana Republicans’

Source:The New Democrat Watching CNN yesterday afternoon as I was working ( of course ) they were obviously covering the release of the Devin Nunes memo and they had Robert Baer on who was a career CIA intelligence officer before … Continue reading

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Politics & Prose: David Cay Johnston- ‘It’s Even Worse Than You Think’

Source:The New Democrat I agree with David C. Johnston that Donald Trump is not the disease in American politics, but a symptom. His presidency is an example of what can happen when Americans are literally so pissed off about American … Continue reading

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