Vermont Public Radio has coverage of Bernie Sanders Kicks Off His Campaign In Burlington.

The article has the following link:
Full audio of Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at the event to kick off his campaign for President, in Burlington, Vt.

I don’t know of any candidate running this year or in the past 4 decades who holds out a greater possibility of getting this country back on track as does this candidacy of Bernie Sanders. It would be a tragic mistake if the voters of this country didn’t get to hear this message, and decide for themselves where they want this country to go.

Why limit this to The United States? There are probably billions of people around the world that would like to have a person like Bernie Sanders leading their country.

Bloomberg News has the article ‘Political Revolution’: Bernie Sanders Officially Launches Democratic Presidential Bid. It has some video clips to go along with the audio above.

I know this is horse race coverage which we should not promote, but what fan of Bernie Sanders could resist taking heart from this excerpt.

Sanders, one of the most avowedly left-wing members of Congress, has risen steadily in polling since hinting at a bid. A November 2014 Bloomberg/Saint Anselm poll put his support in New Hampshire at just 6 percent to the 62 percent enjoyed by Hillary Clinton. At the start of May, Sanders had risen to 18 percent, benefiting from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s repeated insistence that she would not run for president.

Paul Krugman has the opinion piece in The New York Times, The Big Meh.

In other words, at this point, the whole digital era, spanning more than four decades, is looking like a disappointment. New technologies have yielded great headlines, but modest economic results. Why?
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One possibility is that the numbers are missing the reality,
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Another possibility is that new technologies are more fun than fundamental.
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So what do I think is going on with technology? The answer is that I don’t know — but neither does anyone else.

The feigned ignorance that Krugman displays in articles like this is getting way more than a bit tiresome. He seems capable of thinking up two possibilities, and then seems to give up. He fails to note that over the more than four decades he cites, there has been a decimation of the government’s incentives for industry and the oligarchs to share the benefits of increased productivity with the workers. In past periods of increased productivity and economic growth, the sharing of the benefits with the workers has spurred enough job creation to make up for the jobs wiped out by increased productivity.

For a self-declared liberal with a conscience, Krugman’s inability to imagine this as a third possible explanation makes one wonder what has happened to that conscience. As John Oliver of the Last Week Tonight show might wonder in reference to Paul Krugman’s articles in the lame stream media, How Is This Still a Thing?

MSNBC has the article Lindsey Graham’s ‘pool room’ education.

At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City, Graham didn’t make things any better. The BBC reported:

In context, Graham didn’t seem to be arguing that Iranians were dishonest pool players in the South Carolina hall where he used to work, but rather, he got to know dishonest pool players, giving him finely tuned lie-detection skills, and those skills now tell him that Iranians are just like those pool sharks he used to know.

How can you give a guy like this any respect? I don’t know why we don’t just laugh him off the political stage.