[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Bernie Sanders was right to skip AIPAC. The current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination would be the first Jewish president. He once lived in Israel. But he refused to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference this week because, he said, the...
Editorial: California Housing Prices Are Too Damn High. Cities Can Help Change That If They Want to
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription The cost of building new housing in California is too damn high. And one reason is all the pricey development fees layered on new apartments, single-family homes and even affordable housing projects. Cities throughout the state collect an assortment of fees from builders to raise...
Warren Buffett: This Is Your 1 Greatest Measure of Success in Life
[aggregation-styles] CNBC Make It Warren Buffett is no doubt one of the few business icons who can deliver the gift of wisdom and truth when we need it most. And those truths, when you really stop and consider them, are always spot-on. In her biography of Buffett, “The Snowball: Warren...
Bernie Sanders’ Scandinavian Fantasy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that his proposals “are not radical,” pointing again and again to countries in Northern Europe such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway as examples of the kind of economic system he wants to bring to the United States. The image he...
'AIPAC and All Pro-Israel Leaders Must Oppose Netanyahu’s Disastrous Settlement Plans In And Around East Jerusalem'
[aggregation-styles] J Street J Street calls on the leadership of AIPAC and of the entire American pro-Israel movement to join us in opposing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plans to build thousands upon thousands of units of new housing in and around East Jerusalem. Announcing these projects — specifically in this most...
Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders Is the Front-Runner Because of How We Raised Our Kids
[aggregation-styles] CNBC With his convincing victory in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, Sen. Bernie Sanders is solidifying his status as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination more than ever before. So how did a life-long avowed socialist and someone who’s never actually won an election as a Democrat get to the...
Devin Nunes’ District Remains the GOP’s Ruby Heart as Blue California Votes
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Up the backbone of California, north of Bakersfield, the billboards that dot state Route 99 speak volumes. “Jesus is Lord,” says more than one. “Dam Water Grows Food,” proclaim several others. A picture of a mother and infant dominates another towering sign, which declares “Pro Woman,...
Finally, Can We All Agree? Everything We Were Told About Bernie Sanders Was Wrong
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Can we agree, in the wake of primary contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and now Nevada, that everything we were told about Sen. Bernie Sanders was wrong? That the press, the pundits, the politicians were all wrong about him? And not just wrong, but completely, utterly, demonstrably,...
Bernie, Bibi and the Brutal Occupation: Listen to Gideon Levy
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz One week ahead of Israel's third election in less than a year, host Simon Spungin is joined by senior Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy. Among the issues on today’s agenda: Read More → By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Weekly | 23 Feb 2020
California’s Progressive War on Suburbia
[aggregation-styles] California Globe For three years in a row, California’s progressive lawmakers have attempted to legislate higher density housing by taking away the ability of cities and counties to enforce local zoning laws. And for the third year in a row, the proposed law, Senate Bill 50, was narrowly defeated....