Memorial Day Should Be (More Than) a Day at the Beach
Monday, May 30, 2022 at 6:39 AM
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Guns? Republicans Blame Uvalde Shooting on Mental Illness
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 6:38 AM
Unsurprisingly, Republicans are blaming this school shooting in Uvalde Texas not just on mental illness but on everything else except the most obvious culprit: guns. Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic presidential white knight and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, threw this into righteous relief on Wednesday. He crashed a press conference Texas Republicans were holding, and… Read more.
Uvalde School Shooting – Just Groundhog Day in Gun-Crazy USA
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 11:42 AM
Yesterday a mass shooter opened fire in a classroom at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and 2 teachers. This comes just 10 days after a mass shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He killed 10 Blacks and injured 3. But here is why this shooting… Read more.
Covid-19 Claims One Million American Lives…
Friday, May 13, 2022 at 8:22 AM
President Biden hosted a summit of world leaders at the White House yesterday, at which he marked the “tragic milestone” of Covid claiming 0ne million American lives. President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus. … ‘This pandemic isn’t over,’ Biden… Read more.
Republican Supreme Court Deliver Death to Abortion Rights
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 6:27 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts himself confirmed yesterday that the leaked draft opinion, which delineates the reasoning for the (Republican) Supreme Court to finally overrule Roe v. Wade, “is authentic.” I commented on the Mississippi law that provided the pretext for the Court to deliver this death blow to abortion rights in America in “Abortion Brings… Read more.
NY Times Exposes Fox News Tucker Carlson as a Racist. Duh
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 6:47 AM
The liberal intelligentsia are heaping Pulitzer praise on The New York Times for a series that exposes Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a racist. But count me out. Because this is rather like getting all atwitter over an investigative series that exposes Donald Trump as a liar. Duh. Here is how the eponymous “Intelligencer”… Read more.
Audio Recordings Reveal McCarthy Plotting to Become Speaker
Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 2:15 PM
Washington is all atwitter this week over the latest leaked audio recordings. These feature Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plotting to finally rid the Republican Party and the country of the clear and present danger former President Donald Trump always represented. Of course, the reason for the buzz is that McCarthy gives new meaning to the… Read more.
Senate Confirms Jackson First Black Woman on Supreme Court
Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 7:51 PM
“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.
Biden Calls Putin Murderous; Murdoch Dangerous…
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 6:41 AM
US President Joe Biden offended all notions of diplomatic sense and sensibility last month when he called Russian President Vladimir Putin murderous and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch dangerous. I found his candor – in calling a spade a spade on the world stage – refreshing and encouraging in equal measure. But perhaps it just… Read more.
Wife of Justice Thomas Will Cause Him to Retire in Disgrace
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 6:26 AM
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni’ Thomas, will cause him to retire in utter disgrace. This is unavoidable now. Because, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, she sent then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a flurry of text messages, some of which The Washington Post published last… Read more.