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I am referring, of course, to Frederick Douglass. Because one could substitute the word “Black” for “Slave” in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” – the famous speech he delivered on July 5, 1852, and it would still resonate. Douglass decried the myriad ways America’s treatment of black folks made a mockery… Read more.
To paraphrase the catchphrase Biden’s former boss made famous: Yes It Can. Many thought that famous picture of US President George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah showed the polite gesture of a young president aiding an old king. In fact, it betrayed the geopolitical reality of an old king aiding a… Read more.
After all, while most Republican men are still kissing Trump’s brass ass, there was Cassidy Hutchinson giving congressional testimony that could seal his doom… It was one of the most dramatic moments in a presentation filled with them: Just before President Donald J. Trump went onstage near the White House last year and urged his… Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
One ruling (on abortion rights) to bear them, One ruling (on voting rights) to ban them, One ruling (on gun rights) to kill them; and in the chaos (appellate lawsuits) deny them. In the throes of the Roberts Court where even justices lie. The Supreme Court’s infamous ruling that the Second Amendment grants Americans the… Read more.
Mike Pence’s most trusted staffers and advisers have voluntarily testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. And reports are that they all did so with not just his blessing but his exhortation. Yet Pence himself has not testified. And all indications are that he has no intention of doing so … voluntarily.… Read more.
I’ve been in the vanguard of those calling on the UK government to extradite Julian Assange. This, after the Ecuadorian embassy infamously kicked him to the curb in 2019 for continually violating the conditions of his asylum in its London embassy. That’s where British police, who had been lying in wait for nearly seven years,… Read more.
Behold the America that obsesses over CRT, whitewashes history, and watches only Fox TV… Related commentaries: Jan 6 hearing… CRT… Read more.
Truth be told, as I watched last night’s Jan. 6 hearing, I felt like a porn addict waiting for some tidbit of information or video clip to come along and arouse my interest. It never came. Hell, even that “damning exchange” between Liz Cheney and Ivanka Trump didn’t get a rise out of me… This… Read more.
China does not permit dual citizenship. But, like all authoritarian regimes, it is notorious for imposing rules on the masses which they allow the elites (e.g., like Putin’s oligarchs) to flout. And so it was that China permitted Eileen Gu to reap all the benefits of representing China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics without having… Read more.
