If you believe in freedom. If you want to believe in the United States of America. And if you are disturbed about the course it is taking, do not choose to be silent, and in despair and loathing of those Republican leaders who violate our freedoms and mock those…
There are 3 likely scenarios for the Biden classified documents debacle: 1) Biden was so haphazard in handling and supervising the use of classified documents that they were left in personal places in his domiciles. 2) Trump party operatives were paid out of the mostly-corporate largesse he and the…
Sixty-six percent of eligible voters voted in the 2020 presidential election. Of 158 million votes, 81 million were for Biden and 74 million for Trump. Midterm voting percentages now average around 40%. In the late 1800s, it was more like 80% for presidential races and 70% for midterms. When…
At 5AM on the morning of July 8th, 2022, near the end of his shift, and in the midst of a wide yawn, Air Force First Lieutenant Martin Lopez, at the Malmstrom Air Force Strategic Command base in central Montana, picked up the ringing phone. A frightened voice eclipsed…
Recently 60 Minutes aired an episode about Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund known for slashing purchased local newspapers to the bone by running them into the ground and selling off all valuable assets. Featured was Evan Brandt, who is literally the last journalist standing at The…
In response to Republican (A Party which the SCOTUS-alt6 now mirrors in intent) attacks on democracy and the gutting of established human rights, Democrats counter with unimaginative legalistic challenges and/or dreams of recapturing power lost. Their efforts seem frail and fearful of voter and media disapproval. It is simple,…
Using God and guns drives the NRA and Texas Republican politics: At an NRA convention in Houston TX immediately following the slaughter of 19 Texas children in Uvalde, Texas, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA Executive Vice President, said, “God help us if we don’t harden our schools” That entails the…
Republicans demonstrate their distaste for democracy in varying ways and degrees. They range from the most violent to the everyday Chipaways of democracy, the latter discovering that their future requires actually governing for the multi-ethnic majority, something they find repugnant. The whole party has plans for democracy’s dissolution at…
As many of us know, the people who make the most noise, get more of a hearing, and usually they are a minority. This is also the case regarding banning books that offend a small minority of Americans. Let’s be informed that it’s not just a call from the…
Corporate America has been so embedded in one political party that many corporations & corporate-tied vested interests have, indirectly, provided financial support to the violent overthrow of our government. Since many in the GOP, almost exclusively an agency for corporate privilege, supported the violent overthrow of democracy – tacitly…