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By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.
Podcast Episode 69: Battle Erupts in America’s Culture War as Diversion from Europe’s Fratricidal War Related commentaries: Removing statues… Read more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made US history this morning. He became the first world leader to address a joint session of Congress virtually. As the Post reported, he zoomed into Washington to plead for increased aid to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s genocidal invasion: ________ Zelensky renewed his plea for air support to protect the… Read more.
You might think all Republicans value loyalty to Donald Trump over loyalty to the country. However, a few Republicans like Bill Barr and John Bolton want you to know that they value loyalty to party above all. Except that this is the very definition of the triumph of tribalism over patriotism. Frankly, it’s stupefying that… Read more.
Ukraine is begging NATO to enforce a no-fly zone to help it fend off Russian bombs. Short of that, it’s begging for fighter jets. But NATO leaders fear both would escalate the War in Ukraine into World War III . Therefore, NATO is refusing. For obvious reasons, refusing to enforce a no-fly zone makes sense.… Read more.
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was, as the first Black man, when… Read more.
Boy, talk about racial profiling. Because only racism explains white cops breaking up a typical fight at a suburban mall by comforting the white teen while cuffing the Black one… The viral video clearly shows the (bigger) white kid was the aggressor. Moreover, it shows him on top pummeling the Black kid when two white… Read more.
Graduate students use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to examine the myriad ways race and the legacy of racism affect a person’s life experiences in America, especially with respect to education, employment, housing, healthcare, and the criminal justice system. But Republican propagandists have reframed it as a liberal plot to impose the guilt of 19th century… Read more.
And nobody can deny that it has worked like a charm… Remember that purportedly incriminating call on which he was caught telling the president of Ukraine, “you need to do me a favor, though”? Or the far more incriminating one on which he was caught telling Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, “I just want to… Read more.
The prevailing view is that Whoopi Goldberg chose a Jewish stage name to curry favor with the Jews she believes hold all the power in Hollywood. But I always thought she chose it to identify with them as a fellow race of people who have been perennially oppressed by white folks. Then came this: On… Read more.
