by MCDC | May 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Global Warming, Quote of the Day
In Fresno, Donald Trump says environmentalists are to blame for California's drought and he will solve it by "opening up the water". — James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) May 27,...
by MCDC | May 27, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the...
by MCDC | May 26, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Video
https://youtu.be/q1Mrfu4yE-w “Let’s be clear. Nurses and teachers and dock workers — they pay their fair share to keep Trump’s businesses going. Programmers and engineers and small business owners — they pay their fair share to support...
by MCDC | May 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Virginia, Voter Rights
THE HILL The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Republican challenge to redistricting in Virginia, leaving in place a map that could prove more favorable to Democrats. The court unanimously held that Reps. Rob Wittman and other Republicans from Virginia, including...
by MCDC | May 20, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Satire
clayjonz writes Trump released a bunch of names of people he’d consider for the Supreme Court. Little premature, right? This is a move to show the base he is a conservative and not trying to put his liberal sister on the court as each pick is anti-women, anti-LGBT,...
by MCDC | May 19, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Opinion
fas·cism /ˈfaSHˌizəm/ noun an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. synonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; Nazism, rightism; nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism;...
