Why are we Debating Feeding the Poor and the Sick?
I am not going to use one statistic, actuarial chart or pie graph to make my point. Yesterday I listened to Office of Management and Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, explain the Trump administration...
View ArticleA Wall of Misinformation
Former President Obama, was accused by the Republican Party of literally leading from behind. The look on the face of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her recent joint press conference with...
View ArticleTrey Gowdy trying to create Kremghazi
In a letter from committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy(R-SC), he wrote his intention was to, “remain focused on discharging the mission given to us by the House of Representatives.” This was a response to...
View ArticleMom, Apple pie and Liberalism
It is now inarguably clear that healthcare reform in America was never about people or morality for (C)onservatives, it was all about hating Barack Obama. The cancelled House of Representatives...
View ArticleThe Art of the ‘Real’
Democratic pols and supporters had a weekend of earned gloating but now it is time to get real. Supporters of the Affordable Care Act have spent the past three days watching President Trump, Paul...
View ArticleWe Deserve a Good Man
A good man says on the brink of disaster, “I sure hope I am wrong” a bad man says, “I told you so.” America has temporarily dodged the healthcare destruction bullet. Now badly in need of a win,...
View ArticlePutin on the fritz’
Vladimir Putin thought he was cultivating a useful idiot but in truth he was just encouraging a plain one, Donald J. Trump. Instead of being the biggest domino in the Putin plan to bring down the...
View ArticleTo This Day…
Recording artist Otis Redding, watched his ship roll in March of 1968 and by April it rolled away again, taking with it Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The song, Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay, climbed to...
View ArticleBlame the Other Guy
In the months and years leading up to the recent wholesale murder of his subjects, President Bashar al -Assad of Syria, has enlisted the aid of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. In August of 2013,...
View ArticleSave the Babies
In February of this year, the South Sudanese government declared an official famine in the northern region of the country. Among the starving are an estimated 275,000 children...
View ArticleTrump’s War-gasm
In October of 1983 220 US Marines were killed in a barracks attack in Beirut, Lebanon. A few days later Ronald Reagan, who throughout his presidency touted his hawkish diplomacy with Clint Eastwood...
View ArticleAs Quiet as it’s Kept…
My favorite uncle Jimmy often uses the phrase, “as quiet as it’s kept” in place of, let me reveal the obvious. Sean Spicer finally let us all in on the obvious, the Trump administration is a joke,...
View ArticleIs Trump Burying the News Under 11 Tons of Fire and Smoke?
British Intelligence(GCHG) told the world yesterday that Trump minions were passing puppy love notes under the desk with the Russians. Check the box marked, “I like Putin” if you feel the same way...
View ArticleA Little Derangement May be Needed
In the same week, President Trump is attempting to take away lifesaving treatment for women; declared FOX’s Bill O’Reilly a victim and took away the transparency of White House visitors’ log; CNN’s...
View ArticleRace, Religion and the Monolithic Bubble
The popular trope, “in the bubble” has gained social media and political pundit status to describe voluntary encasement in a political ideology or racial finger pointing. Part of what a lot of the...
View ArticleAmerica and Europe, fighting to renew the 20th Century
In March of 1952, Alan Turing was put on trial for being “homosexual.”Turing chose chemical castration as opposed to jail and in 1954 died of a suspected suicide by cyanide poisoning. Turing saved the...
View ArticleThe “Big” Vague Announcement
The Trump administration is planning a “big tax announcement’ on Wednesday. Yesterday, on a morning news and opinion show, Office of Management and Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, announced in no...
View ArticleI’ve got Dirty Hands?
I am somewhat of a news junkie and it makes my blood boil when I hear progressive pundits and Democratic Congressman say, “we need to stop emphasizing identity politics and work on the kitchen table...
View ArticleRepublicans and the Clever Reversal of Identity Politics
Democrats are eating their young over the issue of identity politics. Trying to level the playing field of opportunity is not a terrible thing. However, the conservative movement has turned the...
View ArticleLatasha Harlins, Prelude to a Riot
In March of 1991 my sons were teenagers. Los Angeles resident Latasha Harlins was a 15-year-old black girl, awaiting her sixteenth birthday on the fourteenth day of July. Ironically on that same day,...
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