It’s both perplexing and terrifying that the Republican Party has shifted so far to the ultra-right in just the last five years. Think of how unlikely January 6th would have been in Nixon’s day. No Kyle Rittenhouse, Steve Bannon, Roger …
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Where Is the Republican Party?
Tagged with: anti-vaxxers, death threats to school board members and election officials, Donald Trump, January 6th, Kyle Rittenhouse, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nixon resigned because he had committed a crime and no one was above the law, Republican Party has shifted to the ultra-right, Roger Stone, Science deniers, Steve Bannon, white nationalists driving cars into peaceful protesters
What It Means To Be a Republican, and That’s a Crying Shame
Here’s something from a lifelong Republican, asking, in all sincerity, what it means to be a member of the GOP. I never shared conservatives’ values, even when I was a small boy and both my parents were Republicans. Yet at …
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Borowitz: Bannon Arrested for Contempt of Soap
The Borowitz Report: The basis for Steve Bannon’s arrest is a rarely enforced 1858 statute requiring White House employees to conform to minimal standards of hygiene during their tenure with the executive branch. I thoroughly enjoy the work of Andy …
Where Did Walter Cronkite Go, and Why Did He Leave?
Older Americans pine for the good old days of news reporting, and indeed, Walter Cronkite exemplified those times. So what’s changed? Corporate America figured out that it could turn (fairly) objective news into entertainment, and keep Americans glued to it …
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Unfairly Evaluating Biden’s Mental Condition
My mom and I frequently talk about Biden’s mental faculties. She maintains that the president is mentally incapacitated, as evidenced by the flawed way he speaks. My belief is that what she’s hearing and seeing is not at all a …
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The Dude’s Incorrect; PLENTY Is Being Done
I wouldn’t say, “No one’s doing a damn thing about it.” Plenty is being done. The unemployment rate has fallen from 6.5% in January, 2021 to 4.6% today. The country will be repairing its roads, bridges, electric grid, etc. More …
Tagged with: A congressional committee is making great progress in sorting out the January 6th insurrection, largest single attack of American democracy since the Civil War, More than 60 judges found that there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, more than 600 participants in the insurrection are being sent to prison, Trump administration executives who refuse to comply with subpoenas are being arrested
Freedom Requires Good Education, But We’re Heading in the Opposite Direction: Why?
As we review what Robespierre said here, ask yourself what the motive for the Republicans’ aggression against our educational system could possibly be. What’s the purpose behind replacing school board directors with conservative businessmen who have no background in education? …
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Why Is Trump Still Hogging the Limelight?
A reader sent me the question above and speculates: Once you give that sick type of person attention they can’t live with less. They freak out without it! That’s a solid answer, but there is another. At this point, Trump …
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New Sheriff In Town?
We’d all like to think so. Merrick Garland has come under a great deal of pressure for his silence over these past few weeks, and most of America would love to believe that all this time was somehow required to …
Is Georgia Going After Trump for Election Fraud? It Appears To Be an Open and Shut Case
You couldn’t invent a stronger criminal case for election tampering than what Trump probably did in Georgia. Let’s roll.
