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May 4th, 2021 - 5:13 pm § in Politics

How Idaho GOPers treated a rape victim

“The harassment began soon after a report by a 19-year-old intern, who alleged an Idaho lawmaker raped her, became public, the Associated Press reported here on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. “One state representative sought a copy of the police report and made inquiries into how the young woman [...]

May 4th, 2021 - 1:32 pm § in America, Racism

PHOTOGRAPHY: Freedom Ride

On May 4, 1961, a Greyhound bus with 13 civil rights activists aboard left Washington, D.C.; on May 20, in Jackson, Mississippi, the so-called “Freedom Riders” were attacked by a white mob. Wikipedia says (here) that “southern … police considered the actions of the Freedom Ri[...]

May 4th, 2021 - 12:51 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.

Street racers

Many communities are plagued with them. For example, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, 3, 2021, “A police officer has been fired and three others could face charges and termination after they were allegedly caught on body-camera footage drag racing and crashing two squad cars on a narrow residen[...]

May 4th, 2021 - 12:07 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Politics, Religion

Is Donald Trump the Messiah?

I was going to say “no,” but then something stopped me, and made me write: “Hell no!”  Because if he is the second coming, which a lot of Americans apparently believe, then Satan is laughing his ass off down in Hell. In August 2019, Bess Levins, a politics correspondent for [...]