Here’s an interesting piece, pointing to the failure of both major American political parties to address the declining quality of life of the people in rural parts of the country.
At the risk of sounding fatalistic, there is very little that can be done for most of these people, regardless of one’s politics, given the macro changes that are carving their way through the United States in the 21st Century. (more…)
Late 19th Century huckster P.T. Barnum told us, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
And nowhere has this more thoroughly been proven than here and now, in the United States, as Donald Trump, 45th U.S. president, continues to take this country for the ride of its lifetime. (more…)
It’s hard to find any news publication in the English language more conservative than the National Review, and thus it’s worth checking out this piece, excerpted here:
Almost nothing that the Trump team has alleged has withstood the slightest scrutiny. In particular, it’s hard to find much that is remotely true in the president’s Twitter feed these days. (more…)
From the meme here: Now the American people know that you (Barr) are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway…..
Sorry, but there is a huge difference. Both Giuliani and Conway are liars and buffoons, but the former is his personal attorney and the latter is a spokesperson. Their allegiance, disgusting as it may be, is to Trump personally.
Barr, by contrast, was trusted to be a servant of the American people. He has sworn to protect and defend the United States Constitution, an oath he’s blatantly violated dozens if not hundreds of times in his attempts to enable his boss Trump to escape justice and continue to commit the most brazen crimes with impunity.
Giuliani and Conway are revolting people; Barr, on the other hand, is a traitor to the United States of America. Whether or not he resigns, he needs to be indicted, tried, convicted and imprisoned.
A reader notes: Hilariously delusional—even for Trump.
NO! It wasn’t Barr! It was ME!
Sure, I have a blog that boasts a reasonable amount of traffic, but that’s not what got the job done. I worked feverishly with my elves in 67 counties in Pennsylvania alone, not to mention the mischief we wrought in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
Blaming it on Barr. What hogcrap. Bwah-hah-hah.
This pic features a sticker on the rear window of a neighbor’s car.
A great deal is being said about the chasm that grows even larger between the teachings of Christ and the workings of American society in the 21st Century, one that features people dying of treatable diseases, children in cages, 22 million kids going hungry, and a last-minute push for as many federal executions as possible, preferably via hanging, the electric chair, the gas chamber and firing squad.
I don’t think Jesus would be too impressed.
History may have featured worse people overall: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Torquemada, and the rest. But we’ve never seen, nor are we likely ever to see, a more vulgar, tawdry pig in a position of such power.
It’s clear that the folks at the top of the food chain in the United States will not give the majority of Americans what they want, i.e., a similar socioeconomic system to that found in Europe. At this point, this country is no closer to Medicare for all than it is to colonizing Mars. (more…)
A few years ago, the U.S. congress was considering a carbon cap and trade proposal that would mitigate climate change, but it was fiercely opposed by American farmers. Led by a lobby that had told them that they would face higher prices for commodities like fertilizer, they stormed Washington with hats that read “Don’t Cap Our Future.” Accordingly, the measure failed. (more…)
Someday soon, coal-fired power plants will have completely disappeared, at least here in the U.S. That’s good, but while this transition is taking place, what’s being done to ensure that the soon-to-be defunct companies that operate the mines take responsibility for cleaning up the mess they left behind?
As anyone could have predicted, decades of inaction by coal-friendly regulators in the 30 state governments that were host to mining operations has left us, the American citizenry, in grave danger to toxins leaking into our environment for centuries to come.
