The Republicans Have a Binder Full of Problems
In Mitt Romney’s second presidential debate with the eventual winner and two-term President Barack Obama, Mr. Romney introduced the phrase, “Binders full of women.” Romney’s answer was in response to a...
View ArticleThe Reason for the Season?
An immigrant brown baby grew up to champion the stranger, defend those imprisoned, and demand we pay our fair share of taxes. Eventually, that brown immigrant formed a gang that defied the authority,...
View ArticleThe Most Uninteresting Man in the World
I spent a few days of my Christmas holiday in the hospital. The nurses were festively dressed in reindeer antlers, and the rooms were strewn with garland and various shades of green and red. On...
View ArticleRepublicans Have Padlocked the American Government
It may be hyperbolic to say America is entering its most significant year since the American Revolution, but here goes. In November of 2024, the American people will decide if the country becomes a...
View ArticleAside from that, Mrs. Lincoln…
An old vaudeville joke ended with the punchline; aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? Of course, the butt of the joke was the death of Abraham Lincoln, proving the adage that tragedy plus...
View ArticleIs it Flip-flopping, or is Nikki Haley just a hypocrite?
I made a real effort to listen carefully to former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley on her CNN town hall. As a black man, I nearly vomited listening to her make a case for the people who love the...
View ArticleIs TEOTWAWKI Back?
As the year 2000 approached, many were in a mild panic that—The End Of The World As We Know It—was on the apocalyptic horizon. The entrance into the new millennium was known as Y2K, and whimsically,...
View ArticleAnd the Hits Just Keep On Coming—Again
You know how you shake a snow globe, wait for the flitter to settle, and then shake it again? America has been trapped in Donald Trump’s snow globe for the past 6 ½ years. He shakes us up; we whirl...
View ArticleNormalization, Weaponization, and Now Assassination
Somewhere on your Trump lawyer scorecard, you will find the name John Sauer. In the latest bit of outrageous Trump lawyering, John Sauer stood before an appellate court on behalf of Donald Trump to...
View ArticleWhat Would Dr. King Think?
I wonder what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would think if he were alive today. Unlike many who presume to speak for what he may have believed about subjects like banning unfiltered Black history or...
View ArticleMeals, Money, and Malice
Iowa’s population is about 3.7 million people. Almost 750,000 are registered Iowa GOP voters, and about 115,000 participated in the Iowa caucuses, which Donald Trump won with 56,260 votes. Forty...
View ArticleYou Cannot Argue with a MAGA Evangelical
Evangelicals are fundamentalists; they believe every letter, word, and paragraph in the Bible is the word of God, and calling the stories in the Bible parables is akin to blasphemy. Faith requires you...
View ArticleAmerica, ‘You in Danger Girl’
When Whoopi Goldberg’s character Oda Mae Brown approached Demi Moore’s Molly in the movie Ghost, she issued an ominous warning, “Molly, you in danger girl.” America is a little less than two weeks away...
View ArticleThe Reasons Behind a Trump Lie
After Donald Trump was declared the winner of the New Hampshire primary last night, he lined up former opponents behind him and started his victory speech. Of course, like most things Trump, he...
View ArticleRidin’ with Biden
America’s economy is in a growth spurt. Wages are outpacing inflation; unemployment has maintained a nearly 50-year low. Job creation has defied economic predictions month after month. The Inflation...
View ArticleBomb, Bomb, Bomb…Bomb Iran?
In the 2008 presidential campaign, the late Arizona Senator John McCain, in a town hall rally, broke out with a rejiggered chorus of the Beach Boys hit song Barbara Ann—singing instead bomb, bomb,...
View Article…Before the Truth Can Put on Its Shoes
When discussing politics, the participants usually mislabel liars as partisans and bipartisanship as truth. Being a partisan does not mean you cannot recognize and acknowledge the truth. Straddling the...
View ArticleThis Race is to the Swift
Writer Damon Runyan rephrased a passage from Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 when he wrote, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.” Currently,...
View ArticleAmerica, Your Slip is Showing
Back when women and little girls wore slips beneath their dresses, the worst thing that could happen would be to leave home with one’s slip hanging below the skirt hemline. Even more humiliating was if...
View ArticleRepublicans Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Yesterday’s failed vote by Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is part of a continued strategy to portray Democrats as a danger to America. In reality, once again, the...
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