How possible is this, given that we live in a country where half the country believes the Big Lie and rejects science? Let’s recognize that the country was never truly homogeneous, but is there a path towards some workable level …
How possible is this, given that we live in a country where half the country believes the Big Lie and rejects science? Let’s recognize that the country was never truly homogeneous, but is there a path towards some workable level …
The idea that the U.S. Supreme Court justices are apolitical is a joke. Clarence Thomas’ wife Virginia is a vocal right-wing activist, who cheered on the January 6th insurrectionists, while claiming that America is in existential danger because of the …
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The word wrong here means incorrect. The most important sense of the word wrong when it comes to Trump is unlawful, illicit, dishonorable, corrupt, unethical, foul, and immoral. I’m sure Pence knew this from the start of his relationship with …
I suppose this is no laughing matter, but there is something humorous about the idea that a fair and objective documentary on anything could possibly come out of Fox News. This is for morons who put no value on truth, …
A few years back, I attended a breakfast meeting at the New York Press Club at which Amy Goodman spoke. And, to be sure, she’s no megaphone for the corporate-owned media. I told her later that I considered her one …
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Here’s the tale of one of the 700+ insurrectionists; he stood before a judge who could sentence him to anywhere from community service to a decade or more in prison. The basis on which he’s asking for mercy? How well-off …
It’s common for people to lament how divisive American life has become. Yes, that’s sad, but it’s one hell of a lot better than coalescing around sheer barbarism, especially in the form of sedition and domestic terrorism. When we get …
As suggested below, the burning of books has been a significant part of human history, but I struggle to recall a time in which it worked out for the best. In all fairness, the mob in Tennessee burned their books, …
Here’s a grim reminder of how lost we are in present-day America. Almost half our country supports the most egregious liar/conman ever known to humankind.
I really don’t know what the big deal is about preventing Trump from running for office again. People assert, correctly, that the 14th Amendment bars traitors from office. Before electrocution came into fashion in the 1890s, they would be summarily …