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[...]
Archive for May, 2021
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 [...]
May 1st, 2021 - 7:51 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP legislator criminally charged for letting rioters into Oregon capitol
In “Republicans behaving badly” news, an Oregon prosecutor has charged state Rep. Mike Nearman with official misconduct and criminal trespass for the actions shown in the video below. Meanwhile, the legislature has already taken the following actions against him: “The state’s[...]
Biden’s quo vadis moment
“Quo vadis” is a Latin phrase that means “whither goest thou” or “where are you going.” Biden has the biggest domestic agenda ambitions of any president since Lyndon Johnson, and very skinny congressional majorities to achieve them with. He spent his first 100 day[...]
May 1st, 2021 - 1:30 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
How Chauvin was convicted of murder, and thoughts on police reform
Minnesota is the only state where Derek Chauvin could have been convicted of “murder,” under the legal definition of the term. That’s the state in which he chose to live, work as a cop, and kill George Floyd. (Gong!) The Hill explains (here), “Many homicides – during robber[...]