While there was no widespread voting fraud in the 2020 election, which Joe Biden easily won, there were isolated acts of individual voting fraud here and there. For example, Bruce Bartman, 70, a Pennsylvania man (photo, left), was charged with two counts of felony perjury and one count of unlawful v[...]
Archive for May 2nd, 2021
May 2nd, 2021 - 10:12 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
Should the Navy get a bigger slice of the defense pie?
That’s the argument of this article in Foreign Policy magazine. “[T]he challenges faced by the United States now and for the foreseeable future are maritime,” the author, a defense consultant and naval reserve officer says. Even Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the joint chiefs, and [...]
May 2nd, 2021 - 7:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
The wages of slavery
A South Carolina restaurant manager who worked a black slave 100 hours a week without pay for 6 years has to pay the emancipated slave over $500,000 in back wages. Bobby Paul Edwards (below left), 56, also was handed a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to forced labor charges. Re[...]
May 2nd, 2021 - 6:49 pm § in Misc.
Republicans will now refuse to take corporate money
“The vanguard pushing the GOP to become more populist in Trump’s image … say they will no longer accept corporate PAC contributions,” The Hill reported on Sunday, May 2, 2021 (read story here). “Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC,” Sen. Ted Cr[...]
Trump vs. Biden: Who’s the bigger liar?
Do you need to ask? But CNN, in an attempt to reduce it to numbers, conducted a count. Of course, there’s some wiggle room for interpretation in this figures; nevertheless, they can serve as a rough guide. The verdict: “By CNN’s rough count, Biden has made 29 total false claims in [...]