I watched Senator Scott stand behind Donald Trump, and then walk up and declare his “love” for Trump, in jest, sure. Characterize it however you think necessary. One thing it certainly was was obsequiousness. […]
Is California Governor Gavin Newsom a real idiot or is this just a role he is playing by calling for an impossible-to-achieve constitutional amendment? […]
The odds of the Democratic party holding onto the Senate in 2024 are frighteningly high against that outcome. It is going to be a long election night. […]
Ronald Reagan presided over the real beginnings of American wealth polarization, which has resulted in the vast majority of Americans not seeing gains in America’s economy. […]
I have enjoyed finding agreement among friends and strangers, and I have enjoyed disagreements. Sometimes I learned a new perspective, and other times I learned how flawed perspectives were constructed. […]
A couple of weeks ago, during our most recent debt ceiling negotiation, Trump advised, “if {the GOP} doesn’t get massive concessions, you’ll have to do a default”. […]
However, today, while racism is an underlying force that has driven the evolution of 'Trumpism' toward full-blown fascism, everyone on the MAGA right is in denial re actually being a racist... […]
The suffix "Ism" means adherence or the following of an ideology, while the suffix "Ist" indicates a person involved in a certain activity, field or mindset. […]
You're a racist if you deny or are indifferent or unaware of the fact of the effect and impact of historical and contemporary racism on the daily lives of average black and brown citizens of this country... […]
If an overwhelming majority of the younger generations think and feel as this young woman does, we're on the right track, headed in the right direction... […]
Many states have become autocratic laboratories that have shown themselves to be increasingly more comfortable with the fascist tactics that are reminiscent of Mussolini and Hitler. […]
Hartmann is spot on. In my view, his assertions here are indisputable and indispensable to an understanding of the political divide in this country... […]
"The House Republican plan for the debt ceiling is about protecting the wealthy and the well-connected from paying their fair share in taxes — nothing more and nothing less." […]
Finally, I would make the suggestion that any reparation cash payments distributed on request, be made to the oldest black Americans first for obvious or even glaring reasons....
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There was a time when advocating violence as legitimate political expression in public discourse was sufficient disqualification from holding elective public office. […]
"If Trump were a black man, he’d have been indicted, prosecuted, and convicted by now and, he most certainly would be disqualified and barred from seeking any office in the future…"
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A student of modest capacity would be able to make a substantial and solid case against Trump upon successful completion of the first year of study at a law school anywhere in the country... […]
The fact that Trump is a loser and has a knack for picking electoral losers should be crystal clear to anyone paying half-hearted.attention to the proceedings. […]
Just ahead of the midterm elections that in involve the highest of the high stakes in the American political process, Biden speaks out on the fact that this time, Democracy is on the ballot.. […]
Today, Desantis is openly and publicly seeking and taking credit for his inhumane treatment of migrants seeking refuge from violence and oppression... […]
It's a funny thing. Back in the sixties and seventies, we were all sure that the FBI WAS a criminal enterprise that spent its time spying on the anti-war movement […]
The thing about Trump, the huge thing about Trump, is that he gets it. He’s the Only Sane Politician. Everything that’s obvious to you but not obvious to the politicians and the media […]
I didn’t hear anything in the morning when it happened. I was downstairs getting breakfast. I don’t think any shots were fired at the FBI building. […]
An astute constitutional originalist or textualist might easily conclude that forced pregnancy is subsumed into the phrase; "involuntary servitude". […]
Trump's MAGA movement and cult resonates, either intuitively or instinctively, with nearly half of the predominately white American population who America 'belongs' to white folks... […]
You want effective gun control?
I've said this repeatedly:
Advise and urge black people to exercise their 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms... […]
This particular path comes from wondering about Palestinian self-determination. I’ve noticed that the Palestinians seem far more concerned with getting the Jews out of Israel […]
A leaked memo indicates that five members of the sitting Supreme Court of the United States are on record favoring the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal […]
Black people have been saddled at birth with the burden of overcoming this social, political, legal, and cultural barrier through the entirety of the history of this country. […]
Vladimir Putin recently brought up the idea of using nuclear weapons. When he talked about invading Ukraine he wasn’t bluffing. About using nuclear weapons […]
Quora is a site where people pose questions and whoever feels like it answers them, with or without listing credentials. I sometimes find questions I’m interested in answering […]
It has been said that democracy is not the best form of government, but it is the best we have. I find this analysis to be valid because it allows for choice, and the accountability for those choices. […]
Today is a little different, though. Did you notice? The tanks are back. In our American morning, there is still a sort of silence. We can pretend that coffee time is the same, but tanks are being called to an assembly in Europe and the noise is rising. […]
Frankly speaking, diplomacy, as such, won't work with an individual who is incapable of responding to anything other than the power of money and military might. […]
Individuality became a power to rival the power systems created by humans since humans settled onto plots of land and started declaring ownership of it…and the people on it…and women. […]
The impact of Kings speech and the nonviolence of the Civil Rights Movement can be heard in the speech given by LBJ as he addressed a joint session of Congress in 1965... […]
”Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” […]
It begins with the disregard of fundamental human and civil rights and the declaration that the very presence of the "other" in the general population is somehow fraudulent and illegal... […]
The defense attorney here is the embodiment of 'living history' and provides us with the opportunity to relive history in real time without the need for a dramatic reenactment... […]
"In general, the reason the Democratic Party always sounds so helplessly incoherent is because its lawmakers are trying to simultaneously appease their corporate donors and look like they are fulfilling their public promises to fix problems created by those corporate donors. […]
Subsequent to a contempt citation, the presiding officer of the chamber can be instructed to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. […]
there are a lot of politicians and judges…not really trying to reduce the number of abortions in America by the most logical means, which would be reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies, putting the lie to what this issue is really about. […]
When lies and hypocrisy are treated as the rhetorical and moral equivalents of truth and fact In public discourse, reason and reasonableness no longer matter. […]
Bill Baird gave a single condom and some contraceptive foam to a female Boston University undergraduate. He was promptly arrested for violating the Massachusetts Crimes Against Chastity law in 1967. In 1972, SCOTUS overturned the law. […]
The top House Republican said his party would retaliate against any company that cooperated with an order to preserve the phone and social media records of G.O.P. lawmakers […]
If America doesn't continue to evolve toward a multiracial, multicultural egalitarian democracy it must surely devolve into a plutocratic autocracy predicated on white supremacy.... […]
Legislative bipartisanship is little more than a rabbit hole the exploration of which will accomplish nothing more than the waste of the time remaining on the legislative clock that will run out by the end of July. […]
Since testimony began on March 29, at least 64 people have died at the hands of law enforcement nationwide, with Black and Latino people representing more than half of the dead. The average was more than three killings a day. […]
If Israel wants East Jerusalem to be considered other than occupied territory, it is incumbent on the Israeli government to treat the Arab population there like they are treated within Israel’s borders and not like they are treated in occupied territories. […]
Losing to people who would destroy American Democracy and establish an Americanized version of apartheid, rule by the white minority, is not an option. […]
Given the current political climate, proof of vaccination may well become an element of exercising the right to vote, travel, see a movie, or a ball game. […]
It’s a one sentence post. There’s no sense in reading an excerpt, particularly given that this excerpt contains one more sentence than the post does. […]
The poll — which was conducted July 9-12, before the death of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis — found that a majority of voters, 56 percent, say that American society is racist, while 40 percent disagree. […]
A Democratic president from Texas--a Democratic president who had been a segregationist for most of his career--finally and firmly embraced civil rights. […]
On August 29, 2011, I published a post on Open Salon called “Governor Perry’s Flirtation With Secession.” I’m reprinting it here, with an epilogue. […]
a) (1) A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the first degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony under this article, he or she solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct. […]
What if Farrakhan and the event organizers had chosen to ignore and violate the terms and parameters of the permits issued and march up Pennsylvania Avenue with the expressed intention to storm the Capitol? […]
Resolved, the Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: […]
The idea of bipartisanship is exactly what we all know it to be...unless it isn’t. To the point, I think this recent Tango with the GOP over governance, and the desire to do so in a bipartisan manner, is a litmus test for how committed they are to the United States […]
If this ripoff tells us anything, it is telling us that the people who support Donald Trump believe that other people who support Donald Trump are so stupid that they will believe this drivel, and they might be right. […]
"If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; ... if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
------Sun Tzu […]
Sure enough, the zombie rose again. Watching this process repeat with this concept and others over the past couple of decades, I began to wonder about the capacities of human intellect broadly. […]
In honoring his legacy, it should be noted that his method and approach to making an accusatory case for equality and justice, ensconced in the effectiveness of rhetorical lamentation, is sorely missed... […]
The thing we need to address right now is that it appears that people within government are at least sympathetic to the insurrectionist’s position, if not totally aligned. […]
Unless all or most of these conditions are met, there can be no National unity or healing, and we can look forward to nationwide repetitions of what took place in the Nation's Capitol last week... […]
Hawley does not fit the profile of an insurgent, a rebel, or an insurrectionist. Why in the world would Hawley sacrifice a comfortable future within the establishment to raise a fist in front of an angry mob […]
Now that the Democrats have somehow managed to grab onto the reins of power by their fingernails, some of us are already writing off the Biden administration by declaring that they will blow this chance to remake reality. Shame on US. […]
Once the news showed the attempt at breaching the Speaker’s suite of offices, I began to think of the riots in Los Angeles when I was a police officer. Back then, I was closer to Nately’s age, but had a dual perspective between Nately’s and the old man’s. Not only was it my job to keep the peace, but I was also a young Black man. […]
While it is true that BLM would have been met with a different response, the comparison is not apt. What results from such comparisons is that movements like BLM are considered to be complementary opposites of groups like Q-anon, or even broad, enthusiastic Trump support […]
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the District has six local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents. This is the highest proportion of police officers to citizens of any state or territory. […]
And now I’ll say something I never expected to say in my lifetime: How the police have treated Black protesters would have been more appropriate yesterday than how they treated those White protestors. They are terrorists and traitors. […]
There’s nothing I can add to this explanation of why there was little or no fear of a police presence or a police response to this seditious riot at the capitol today… […]
A typical white male, "law & order", Republican is now suggesting that street violence is a legitimate response to failure at the polls and in the courts.... […]
In light of the recent spate of presidential pardons, it should be apparent to most conscientious Americans that something must be done about excessive and/or abusive use of the Presidential power to pardon. […]
If we don’t straighten this wealth and income disparity shit out, American Democracy won’t be worth shit, and it will be gone by the end of the century…. […]
"It is difficult to get a man (or woman) to understand something, when his or her) salary depends on his (or her) not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair […]
Quite a few people are questioning whether the continued refusal of the Republican party to accept the results of the recent election might not constitute sedition. I did some extensive research on this subject some years ago and I do not believe that anything has changed since then but, No, it is NOT sedition. […]
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of
complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of
the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially
cognizable interest in the manner in which another State
conducts its elections. […]
Despite the Court packing efforts of Trump and McConnell, the Supreme Court is likely to unanimously vote against the Texas suit, thus snuffing out the last remaining chance of a favorable legal outcome for Trump and his supporters... […]
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a public–private partnership initiated by the U.S. government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. […]
Was feeling about half past dead. Just need some place where I could lay my head. Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed. He just grinned and shook my hand, “genocide” was all he said... […]
This occurred in North Dakota however the reality is that it can, and most likely will, occur in any state where there are large rural areas without street addresses designated by 911 administrators. Interestingly, the entire problem goes back to 911 enabling legislation. […]
Now that the Republican party has lost the presidency and failed to recapture the House of Representatives, Republicans and the more stupid Democrats in Congress, along with the chattering classes, will immediately resume their "National Debt" hawkishness. […]
There is an editorial currently running on the National Review's website that begins with the following statement: “There are legitimate issues to consider after the 2020 vote about the security of mail-in ballots and the process of counting votes..." […]
With all of the speculation about the illegal things Donald Trump may have done, he did this right out in the open and we never even blinked: he voted illegally in the 2020 presidential election. […]
I find this interesting because I am not entirely sure what their angle is. There is already a 10pm closing time for bars and restaurants. Maybe this is to avoid closing other businesses, and allow citizens to make essential errands without necessarily weighing on businesses directly. […]
During the Women's Suffrage Convention In 1851 white women were expected to choose between the Abolitionist movement and the Women's Rights Movement.....
Racism was on the ballot in 2020, but the majority of white women chose Trump anyway. […]
Emily W. Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, has yet to recognize President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. for the transfer of power to begin. […]
This isn't over yet...and it won't be over until the fate of the two Senate seats from Georgia are decided when Georgians go back to the polls on January 5, 2021. Joe Biden's very slender margin of victory in Georgia should not encourage us to expect these races to go in our favor. […]
The assumption being made here, and it’s a surprisingly common one, is that in the workplace the choice is between Merit hiring and Affirmative Action hiring. […]
After all that has been revealed and all that has occurred, nearly half of the electorate remains solidly in support of the individual who appears to be hell-bent on the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’, the dismantling of the democratic process, and the outright destruction of American Democracy. […]
At a time when a would-be dictator must be defeated by an overwhelming margin, most polls show the race for the presidency is within the statistical margin of error or simply too close to call. […]
In his mind, he determined that since the virus would do the most harm to people of color who lived in 'blue state' cities, there was no real need to declare a national emergency and react and respond accordingly... […]
So what he was actually saying was:
You cannot be elected to public office in South Carolina if you’re a liberal young African-American or immigrant. […]
Under review. Context of this post may be wrong. ks
Answer: “If you are a young African-American, an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, 10/9/20 […]
I understood that he wouldn’t care if people he didn’t know got sick with COVID-19. I didn’t know that not caring would extend to people he interacts with all the time personally. […]
On February 7, 2020, Donald J. Trump told reporter Bob Woodward that COVID-19 could be transmitted through the air, that it was very dangerous and that it would be difficult to contain, saying, “This is deadly stuff,” Why, then, did Donald Trump - having admitted to knowing this - launch an anti-mask crusade that is largely responsible for the spread of the epidemic throughout the United States. […]
Now that DJT has contracted COVID-19, reality has taken some strange twists. If DJT becomes incapacitated, he would have to turn the presidency over to Pence, who would become acting president,...unless or until Pence comes down with it. At that point, Nancy Pelosi becomes Acting President. […]
A poll was just conducted by the Yale School of Management. They polled attendees at Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute CEO Caucus. These guys like Trump because of his tax and regulatory policies, right?
Wrong. […]
Last night, though, I found myself quite surprised. Donald Trump shocked me. You might think this is a criticism of Trump’s conduct. It isn’t. Trump’s conduct did not shock me in the slightest. The thing I can not get my head around was what Trump did not do. […]
If Trump isn't beaten by landslide proportions, on the ground at the polls, on election day, we may well lose the fight to retain and secure our democracy.... […]
The NY Times has reported that Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2017.
Well, that’s how most people are reading it but, strictly speaking, that’s not what the Times reported. They reported that he paid $318,672 in taxes in 2017.
That’s a pretty big difference. Why isn’t Trump calling anyone on this? Why isn’t he talking about the other $317.922? […]
If you don't do anything else online today, it is absolutely essential that you watch and absorb the information and insight of this extremely enlightening video... […]
The winner is promised $1 million and headlining a show in Las Vegas. The show turns out to be two performances of a variety show, and the million is paid out over forty years. […]
So, you might ask, what’s so bad about that? Isn’t art to be interpreted? Yes. Art should be interpreted. It is fluid and flexible, and if interpretations help one to enjoy, then do so. […]
Packing the Court is a violation of tradition, but so is refusing to vet the Supreme Court nominee of a sitting President. Both are technically legal. The fuss will be asymmetrical. That will be the height of hypocrisy and we should treat it as such. […]
Should the Trump-McConnell-Barr cabal succeed in getting a Ginsberg replacement installed before January of 2021, the proverbial rock shall fall through the bottom of the legal, political, and social fabric of this country toward a depth of hell that even Dante would have been hard put describe... […]
Donald Trump wants to take control of the curricula of the American public school system and is trying to give that control to members of organizations with ties to conservative think-tanks in an attempt to subvert the educational system to suit his belief systems. […]
Anyone who believes that a Trump 'win' in November can't or won't signal the end of American Democracy doesn't have sufficient intellectual wherewithal to pay attention... […]
Hogan was a remarkable creature to behold. I fully accept that hearing this description is like hearing about a mythical creature like the Loch Ness monster or a “compassionate conservative”, but Hogan is real and the Hogan Constant is valid. […]
From an international standpoint, [the Chinese] are basically shooting themselves in both feet. It isn’t prudent, it isn’t playing the long game, it isn’t anything that we normally expect from China.
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There was a time when Blackness in America involved an internal psychological struggle with personal connections to the condition of slavery. Some felt shame. I am not judging that, but I don’t agree with it. […]
Yesterday, Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. It is a solid choice. In an earlier incarnation of Presidential politics, this would have been something of a ‘Hail Mary’. […]
While the Democrats and the media are focused on the counting of votes, he will declare the election to be a hoax and the results to be fake news.... […]
I' m angry at the Democrats in the House of Representatives because they are failing to do their jobs by NOT IMPEACHING Donald J. Trump AGAIN and doing so RIGHT NOW. […]
William Faulkner said, “[T]he past is not dead. It is not even past.” We are fortunate, in a sense, if we can look at it that way. With this egalitarian principle, which is more imagined than real... […]
In the wake of nationwide protests over the police murders of George Floyd and other people of color who are too numerous to enumerate, the current occupant of the Oval Office has completely ignored the armed occupations of state capitals and city halls by armed reactionaries, right wing militias and white supremacists...except when he chooses to praise them as "loyal Americans." […]
This wasn’t racism at work, this is about how and why racism works. It is about being different. The lesson is for the members of the mob who may have never said anything, never tried to trip the kid, never threw a punch. […]
Most racism in the United States is perpetrated by people who don’t admit their racism. Because they don’t admit their racism, the reasons for their views are not discussed; if they do discuss their reasons they are dismissed as immoral. The problem with that dismissal is that it leaves their reasoning in place […]
Doctor Fauci said, if you love Trump, shaved your armpits, have stretch marks, wear a table cloth for a belt, and have Pom-poms, you are right where you need to be. […]
The fact that the practice "peonage" (the hiring out of convicts to perform slave labor) continues down to the present day in both privately run and government run penal institutions is yet another indictment of the "American Way.") […]
Every journey starts with a point of origin, and this point of origin is the place with which you are all familiar. It is the place where your life journey started, shared with your mother at the moment of your birth. […]
The underpinnings of the United States are based on immoral beliefs of alleged racial and religious superiority. If we aren't willing to unpack that box we aren't going to fix the damn problem. If you aren't willing to help unpack the box you aren't helping People of Color. […]
Today I posted a video from the film, “Glory.” The portion posted depicted Trip, played by Denzel Washington, being flogged. Washington won an Academy award for his portrayal. The scene is quite compelling. […]
How would we feel if modern day Nazis or Nazi sympathizers presented evidence that she wasn’t as nice as we thought? Documented evidence that she was nasty to her sister or her parents? Would that mean every bookstore would pull the diary from their shelves and she would no longer be read in schools?
No, because her sainthood isn’t the point. […]
The strangest irony in all this is that NFL players will now be free to take a knee, not because Kaepernick did but because Chauvin did. And, in dying, George Floyd became one of the most potent political activists in American history. […]
It is the height of absurdity to suggest that we do away with our police forces. There isn’t a country or a major city in the world that doesn’t have a police force. Even the Vatican City has a police force. Like it or not, there are violent criminals in the world […]
Previously unidentified officers wore shirts with insignia from at least two federal prisons in Texas, one of which includes active coronavirus infections. […]
When 49ers QB, Colin Kapernik, took a knee during the National Anthem in protest of police brutality, the NFL excoriated, ostracized, and ultimately banned him from the game. […]
In a mindless show of force, Trump bulldozed a peaceful protest in Washington's Lafayette Park so he could walk across the street and have his picture taken in front of a boarded church while holding the Bible upside down. […]
During her time as a county prosecutor in Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar failed to seek justice rather than higher office.
Now, as her failures come under greater scrutiny, she is hoping that Biden will take her off the hook. […]
When friends get together in sadness, we share a hug, and we share a laugh. You can’t just cry and be morose. That would just be depressing. And you can’t just smile and laugh. That’s disrespectful. […]
Donald Trump is desperate to get in front of an audience. Any audience will do....but the bigger, the better.That's why he's pushing hard for the Republications to hold a national convention in the middle of a pandemic despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing for a Republican Convention to do this year.... […]
Being black in this society is weird in ways that so many are blind to, and so many others know like the back of their hands. They are two parallel universes which are only visible to one of the universes. […]
Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump will live long enough to find out who was right, or whether Biden's plan will actually work. The difference is that Donald Trump's inaction is accelerating the timetable for global environmental and economic collapse […]
When the Dud Swallow compares Biden to Trump, he inadvertently elevates the Democratic Party. The poor Dud Swallow hears the call of another Dud Swallow, in this case, Hugh Hewitt, and then starts to warble his plagiarized nonsense version, this time about Joe Biden. […]
Can it really be an opinion if you do not genuinely think what you have offered as your opinion? Can any sentient being sincerely offer this as a legitimate comparison? I don’t think much of Marc Thiessen, but this is beneath even him. […]
This is the crazy thing about this crazy time that we are in. We don’t agree with all of our neighbors, friends, or even family members. That’s fine. Mr. McDaniel seemed like a regular guy, not different from most. Somehow he was convinced that COVID-19 was some sort of hoax for someone’s political benefit. […]
The greatest deal of any lifetime. No one has ever seen such a deal. What do you get? You get whatever you want. You get your life back. More specifically, I developed a cure for Covid-19. I alone can fix it. […]
There are widespread - and totally unfounded - concerns about Donald Trump cancelling the 2020 election by declaring martial law or through some other legal stratagem. That will never happen because Title 3 of the United States Code, Section 19 Item A (1) states: […]
It appears that the Tea Party is back. You remember the Tea Party, right? They used to gather together, and hold signs about how fiscally irresponsible the Democratic President was. […]
The people who are promoting this legislation are either stupid or ill-informed because voting by mail is an accomplished fact in ALL 50 states right now. It's called an absentee ballot...and they are available for the asking from your local Election Commission. […]
The NY Times published a opinion piece by the highly regarded Michelle Goldberg that casts some additional light on why the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 epidemic has been so incompetent. The answer to that question is Jared Kushner […]
Understanding the difference between health care insurance and health care is understanding the difference between concerns for profits and concerns for patients. […]
Someone observed recently, and then memorialized it in a meme, that the apocalypse was supposed to have zombies and anarchy. What we actually got was home office work and no toilet paper. […]
Thinking about it, I began to wonder about its origin. I knew what it referred to. It describes the process that takes place when a gas fueled aircraft crashes. Often, they catch fire and burn. The idiom means catastrophic failure. […]
Anyone who doesn't think that Trump will attempt to pull some kind of really undemocratic dirty shit is clueless and has no idea of who and what we're up against. […]
And now, I can be grateful that the mere fact of Donald Trump’s existence taught me one of life’s greatest life lessons. Racism is about power, and not about information...and facts don’t matter […]
Super Tuesday wasn't the blowout that the media is making it out to be. According to the New York Times, Joe Biden walked away with 433 delegates to Bernie Sanders 388, a difference of 45 pledged delegates. with 17 states in the bag so far. That isn't even close to an insurmountable lead. […]
A team of researchers at MIT released a security audit of Voatz—a blockchain app that already was used in a limited way for absentee-ballot voting in the 2018 mid-term elections—that they said bolsters the case for why internet voting is a bad idea […]
The ultimate irony of all historical information is that it has no innate meaning whatsoever until interpreted at another future time, in another political context. […]
"You have to stand proudly for the national anthem, or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country." ---Donald Trump […]
It doesn’t matter that the majority of Americans want testimony or even if the majority of Americans want Trump removed. What matters is where those Americans live […]
We are living in the end times, and Donald Trump has been cast in the role of The Savior, but there was a misprint in the program. Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. […]
Medicare for All is what it always was, a divisive, undoable, and ultimately unpopular proposal that might very well cost the Democrats the election in 2020. Study after study has indicated that MFA may be a loser in 2020. […]
I am not going to vote in the Democratic primary and it isn't just because I am not a registered Democrat. I really don't care who the Democrats nominate because I am going to have to vote for whomever the Democrats get around to nominating...but I am not going to like it. […]
As things stand the 2020 election will be a referendum on the Articles of Impeachment presented by the House of Representatives and the vote of acquittal by the Senate. […]
"The investigators called the manner in which Comey disclosed the FBI’s findings on Clinton’s email, at a news conference in July of the election year, “extraordinary and insubordinate.” […]
The couple is ordered out of the car. The young man is cuffed and kicked in the back of the legs. The young woman is ordered repeatedly to exit the vehicle but she’s on a side in the back seat where the door doesn’t open so she can’t do it quickly, which is just making the screaming escalate. […]
Medicare for All is going to be one of the battlegrounds in the 2019 Democratic primaries and in the 2020 presidential campaign. Most Republicans don’t want it. Some Democrats do. […]
I am watching the Democratic party racing toward defeat. The Democrats are going to be defeated in the Senate when they try to convict Donald Trump on a Bill of Impeachment. T […]
Democracy Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes: As reported in the New York Times today, More than 24 House Republicans attempted to invade a closed door meeting of the House Intelligence Committee meeting […]
This should now be obvious to everyone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a clear and present danger to the survival of the Republic […]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with this particular Yiddish word, it means unmitigated gall but more extreme than that. My father used to give the classic example of the guy who kills his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan.....I didn’t think I’d live to see the day that my father’s example would be, well, trumped. […]
I’m not going to throw you under the bus, but you must understand that you have to fall on your sword if I am to have any chance of getting away from this… […]
Our efforts were intended, and evidently succeeded, in thwarting corrupt interests in Ukraine, who fought back by selling baseless conspiracy theories to anyone who would listen. Sadly, someone
was listening, and our nation is the worse off for that. […]
There are way too many pictures of the various subjects of this piece already floating everywhere on the internet so you get to look at my dog sleeping instead. He turned 14 the other day. […]
We might as well get used to the new facts of life in America.There are now four major political parties in America: - and none of the above holds the key to the next election
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Rudy Giuliani is the president's personal attorney. He is not an employee of the federal government and, as Donald Trump's private attorney, he has no legal right to meet with foreign leaders […]
The 25th Amendment is an empty threat to any sitting president because of the inherent flaws in the legal structure of the Amendment. The 25th amendment is a farce because […]
This is fundamentally a fixable problem, and it could be accomplished by either side damned near unilaterally. Frankly, it could be accomplished by the US damned near unilaterally […]
Today the Israeli government, after being advised by President Trump to ban Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting Israel, banned them from entering Israel.
This is both ridiculous and insane. […]
"In general it is unlawful for a person or other entity—to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United Statesan alien knowing thealien is an unauthorized alien..." […]
There are apparently White people out there who are afraid of this day. This day will eventually come, and you know what will happen when it does?
Absolutely nothing […]
It probably would take an individual with some capitalist chops to straighten out the mess that uncontrolled and deregulated capitalism has created… […]
The United States has signed the UNConvention on the Rights of the Child(UNCRC), but is the only United Nations member state that is not a party to it. ... It emphasizes the right to survival, development, and protection against abuse, neglect and exploitation. […]
My question is whether it would have been an issue had McCain run as a Democrat. Would Fox News have been talking about Panamanian gunboats on the Potomac? […]
Cyberwarfare involves the actions by a nation-state or international organization to attack and attempt to damage another nation's information systems.... […]
Iconic images reflect prejudices and beliefs that are so deeply ingrained in that they can elicit an unconscious or subliminal reflexive response...Use of such images reinforces, reaffirms, and reasserts the underlying message... […]
The study compared counties that hosted rallies vs. counties that didn’t. In comparison, the counties that had rallies had a 226% rise in hate crimes. […]
House Democrats introduced a resolution Monday condemning President Donald Trump for 'racist comments' directed at a group of newly elected progressive […]
I can tell you that for a kid in the school yard or classroom. playground or lunch room there is only one thing that is as hurtful and damaging as being told you don’t belong…. […]
Many , if not most, people who believe in God won't blame their God for the mishaps, misfortunes, trials, tribulations, negativity, and adversity that befalls them. BY RON POWELL […]
None of this would or could occur if Trump were a black man. This is what I, and virtually every single black person in this country knows to be as much fact and factor of life as the sun rising in the morning... BY RON POWELL […]
After last week's gaffe and dust-up with Senator Booker, the polls are indicating that Joe Biden is holding his substantial lead over the field of Democratic hopefuls. He remains the front runner for the Democratic nomination as the candidate to run against Trump for the Presidency..... […]
The social safety net consists of a variety of programs and policies designed to maintain the quality, integrity, and dignity of life in America....These programs and policies include, but are not limited to, the following: […]
This year, in what has been billed (incorrectly) as the most important midterm election in American history, the Democratic party absolutely failed to present the electorate with a national campaign, leaving it up to the individual candidates to put together their own campaign strategies […]
Mr. Trump, in his current role as a reality TV star portraying the president of the United States, has decreed that approximately two million federal employees will NOT receive salary increases scheduled for January of 2019, […]
The Democratic National Committee opened a surprise legal assault on President Trump on Friday, filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organization was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. […]
In the first major test of the Trump Administration's coat tails in a regular election, Democrats have won convincing victories in two gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. […]
The copy of Trump's Form 1040 released by Rachel Maddow on her 9 P.M. MSNBC program last night turned out to be another case of "much ado about nothing" because Form 1040 is a summary of an actual tax return and we needed to see the details, not the summary. […]
The networks and the big web sites have refrained from calling elections until the polls close on the West Coast but, this year, there is such a clear demarcation between the strengths of the major candidates that the result will become obvious very early on....unless no one reports any results until all the polls close. […]
Presidential candidates do not abruptly change their travel plans to return home for a change of clothing. They have people to do that. Presidential candidates are wealthy people. (If you don't believe that, try throwing your hat into the ring and see what happens if you are not wealthy.) […]
Marco Rubio may have moved up in the pecking order of potential Republican candidates from wannabe to not inconceivable, but he has been damned with faint praise by recently dropped-out candidate Rick Santorum. Appearing on the MSNBC's Morning Joe talk show to talk about his withdrawal from the race […]
In a March 9 letter addressed to the leaders of the […]
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