Communist take-overs, Fascist take-overs, we’ve seen them all and now we can sit comfortably in our living rooms and watch it happen here.It’s just in (Continue Reading)
Communist take-overs, Fascist take-overs, we’ve seen them all and now we can sit comfortably in our living rooms and watch it happen here.It’s just in (Continue Reading)
Rachel Maddow made a short list of Trump scandals to show how quickly we forget. One just nudges the last one out until we have (Continue Reading)
The excerpt Maddow published on the show quoted Miller as telling Soboroff: “My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think (Continue Reading)
[Originally published in 2017 except for the last paragraph] The arc of history sounds a bit pompous, but an ignorance of it is far-reaching in (Continue Reading)
Try to think of a word, a label, an epithet, that can be applied to White people with anything like the force the N word (Continue Reading)
This one is not a fill-in-the-blank question. It is very serious. Serious because William Barr is a serious guy who had immense education, training, and (Continue Reading)
It is May 16, 2019 and do you know where your country is headed? We have a task force in the Persian Gulf and John (Continue Reading)
Is it now time to step over the line and begin the Hitler comparisons? I give you a paragraph of facts from a Joan Walsh (Continue Reading)
End of category. We are no longer under the bus.
Over and over we see the depressing yet gratifying statistics on how selected minority groups vote. People of color and Jews vote Democratic in large (Continue Reading)
Frank Schaeffer, recovering evangelist (still evangelical, just not spreading hate and poison like the current movement), pointed out on A.M. Joy yesterday that Trump’s followers (Continue Reading)
Do you ever wonder why Chicago’s murder rate ranks so high among Republicans as a topic of discussion? I do. Since when have they been (Continue Reading)
Quoting LBJ talking about anti-war protesters: “… it’s not those punks in the street that worry me, it’s the right wing. That’s the real beast, (Continue Reading)
Here’s an extensive quote from The Wise Men. pp. 563 to 565. It demonstrates the inherent and instinctive thought of people who join the Republican (Continue Reading)
Reading of the Republican reaction to Truman firing McArthur, my thoughts turned to Louie Gohmert and Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa and so on. All (Continue Reading)
As I watch the Rev. Al in for Joy on A.M. Joy, I want to blog as I hear the arguments against Trump’s stripping Brennan (Continue Reading)
In The Wise Men I am just reading about McCloy’s efforts to bring Europe together right after WW II. His success in this endeavor was (Continue Reading)
My wife was watching the Omarosa drama fest unfold and decided Omarosa has the goods and that Trump may be brought down by her. She (Continue Reading)
Yes, Republicans, that’s you he’s talking about. And I don’t want to hear any self-righteous claims of arrogance on his part or my part, that (Continue Reading)
Unlikely perhaps, but he is Corey Stewart of Virginia, who is seemingly pushing for the solution to our divisions I have advocated for some time (Continue Reading)
Stephen Douglas said, “Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere. unless it is supported by local police regulations.” That is the Freeport Doctrine (Continue Reading)
The former national Teacher of the Year, Johana Hayes, is now running for office in Connecticut. Her own background is very tough and she rose (Continue Reading)
The reasoning that goes on behind the shootings protested by Black Lives Matter seems shallow. Why does the story run so often along these lines: (Continue Reading)