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‘ A LITTLE GIRL MTG That’s me I’m like a little girl Who wants to be treated like a pearl. Can’t you see What it’s like to be me? Just to mention That I crave so much attention. I would...

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Why Oh Why Do people pursue a lie Are they so greedy And feel so needy What is the appeal From a man who Thrives on the steal He’s quick to blame And that’s a shame He’s good with the bluff...

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Donald Trump has taken Friedrich Engels’s definition of False Consciousness and made it into a fatuous reality TV show. Engels described this process of propaganda as the deliberate effort to m...

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" With this Republican Party, the party of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, what we have are cunningly deceitful ideologies that mask what are, in fact, naked power grabs to achieve this party�...

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"So, here’s the con: Trump buys a property with nothing down – with no skin in the game – by getting investors to put up the equity and banks to provide a mortgage for up to 100% of the ask...

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"The desire to stand for something can easily be eclipsed by the decision to stand for anything. This describes America’s Republican Party and the voters who support its policies. Today’s rel...

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“Lover?" she asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.” - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis For at least half of America’s population, Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficki...

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We have made our bed, and now it appears that we will die in it. And the irony is that, like the dinosaurs, we'll be the first to go. The post WINTER IS REALLY COMING appeared first on The Mod...

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“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” -   Honoré de Balzac The post CATCH 45 appeared first on The Moderate Voice .

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We have a Trojan Horse in our government. It’s not merely one man; it’s a movement that has been emerging since Reagan. The Trojan Horse is American Conservatism and its handmaiden is Christi...

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The Republican Party is all fringe and no center. But the GOP leadership is another story. The post MAMMON SMIRKED appeared first on The Moderate Voice .

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I’d like to pitch you an idea I’ve been kicking around for a new episode of The Twilight Zone. Like all the best ones, it takes place about 15 minutes into the future. It goes like this: Hum...

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President Barack Obama has long had a problem with his Democratic Party base because rather than immediately start pulling out of Afghanistan when he came into office he continued the American co...

https://themoderatevoice.com/gop-hawks-wants-romney-to-taketougher-line-on-afghanistan-extended-presence-of-u-s-troops/

WASHINGTON — It’s not often that a sound bite from a Democratic candidate gets so under the skin of my distinguished colleague George F. Will that he feels moved to quote it in full and then ...

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I don’t normally readjust my expectations based on a NewsMax article, but I do believe this one has validity: according to the conservative website NewsMax.com, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie i...

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