Term limits are mostly a Republican thing, and they don’t honor their term limits pledges, so they’re hardly anything at all. “When Sen. Ron Johnson ran for re-election six years ago,” MSNBC says (here), “the Wisconsin Republican made a public commitment: He believed in[...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 12th, 2022 - 7:27 pm § in Health
Can N95 masks be used more than once?
Early in the pandemic, we were told to let health care workers have the limited supply of N95 masks, and the other types were good enough for general public use. But supplies have improved, Omicron variant is much more transmissible, and now health experts recommend N95s for everyone. But they’[...]
January 12th, 2022 - 6:23 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
France’s teachers threaten to strike over Covid protocols
It’s not just in Chicago, and U.S. teachers aren’t alone in demanding classroomCovid-19 safety. “French teachers will walk off the job en masse on Thursday over what they say is the government’s failure to adopt a coherent policy for schools to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, o[...]
McConnell calls Biden’s voting rights speech a “rant”
You’d think making sure American citizens can vote wouldn’t be controversial, but this is the era of Republican opposition to democracy. “The president’s rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect and beneath his office,” McConnell said on the Senate floor today, referrin[...]
January 12th, 2022 - 12:46 am § in Law and Courts
Washington state Nazi gets 7 years in prison for threats
“Kaleb Cole, neo-Nazi leader from Arlington found guilty in a plot to target journalists and members of the Anti-Defamation Leagues, was sentenced to seven years in prison” on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, a Seattle TV station reported here. Cole, 25 (photo, left), heads the Washington chap[...]
Voting rights take center stage
President Biden is making a renewed push to get voting rights through Congress to protect the right of Americans to choose their leaders. But GOP obduracy and the Senate filibuster stand in the way. Biden finally endorsed changing the rule in a much-anticipated Georgia speech on Tuesday, January 11,[...]
What’s next, funerals for fingernail clippings?
“It brings me no joy to sue one of our own cities,” Delaware’s attorney general said when she took legal action today against the city council of Seaford, a town of fewer than 8,000 people, for enacting an ordinance that requires “anyone who has an abortion or experiences a miscarria[...]
January 11th, 2022 - 5:55 pm § in Misc.
Can Trump be held liable for the Capitol riot?
We’re going to find out. There are 9 civil lawsuits against him seeking damages, and a federal judge heard arguments in 3 of them on Monday, January 10, 2022. He wasn’t sympathetic to Trump or his lawyers, pointing out “that Trump on January 6 asked the crowd to march to the Capito[...]
16 top colleges sued for price fixing
Sixteen major universities are being sued by former students who allege the schools “participated in a price-fixing cartel that is designed to reduce or eliminate financial aid as a locus of competition, and that in fact has artificially inflated the net price of attendance for students receiv[...]
January 11th, 2022 - 4:58 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Some prominent Republicans are backing away from Trump, and that’s a very good thing
What America’s politics need, more than anything else, is for the GOP to be a normal political party again. Since falling under Trump’s spell, it’s become a cult led by a lying charlatan. That’s unhealthy not just for the Republican Party, but the entire country. We need two [...]