Republicans will tell you Biden is. Mark Zandi, a respected economist (bio here), breaks it down in the chart at left. Isn’t it obvious this is all Biden’s fault? Let’s go through it item-by-item. Russian invasion of Ukraine That’s 3.5% right there, and Biden admits it contr[...]
Archive for June, 2022
June 29th, 2022 - 3:38 pm § in Misc.
Hershel “Woody” Williams dies
Hershel Woodrow Williams, 98, the last World War 2 Medal of Honor recipient, died Wednesday, June 29, 2022 (read story here). During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Williams used a flamethrower to destroy a series of Japanese pillboxes stalling the American advance off the landing beaches, covered only by r[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who is Cassidy Hutchison?
Besides the witness who shredded the last remnants of whatever illusions of respectability and legality still clung to the Trump gang of seditionists who tried to violently overthrow our government? She’s not a lawyer. Not a Democrat agent, either. Hutchison (bio here) is 25 years old. SheR[...]
The Trump plot in a nutshell
An article in Salon (here) sums up what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 hearings: “In the public hearings so far, the House Select Committee on January 6 has marshaled facts in fastidious detail showing that former President Trump’s attempted coup was plotted and organized by the pre[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 11:17 am § in Politics
Florida bans rainbows
So obsessed is Gov. Ron DeSantis with banishing gay people to non-person status that rainbows are now illegal in and near Florida schools. Florida teachers also have to report gay students to the political police for being gay. “Teachers in Orange County, Florida are being told to scrape rainb[...]
June 28th, 2022 - 10:46 pm § in Politics
Colorado primary: Boebert wins, rogue county clerk loses and whines
Flamboyant Rep. Lauren Boebert was virtually assured of returning to Congress for the 2023-2025 term after handily winning the Republican primary. She crushed her challenger by a 2-to-1 margin, and there’s little chance the deep-red district in western Colorado will elect the Democrat in Novem[...]
Why should anyone take Fox seriously?
Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here), “I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.” While [...]
June 28th, 2022 - 3:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Is the United States about to become a confederacy of states?
The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority is all about states’ rights and stripping the federal government of power. Its most high-profile decision, Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade, said it’s up to states to regulate abortion. But conservative justices are also going after [...]
June 28th, 2022 - 9:48 am § in Law and Courts
GOP lying spreads to Supreme Court
There’s no limit to Republican lying. That’s the lesson from a pair of Supreme Court rulings last week. In the first, the 5-4 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, it became evident that all three of Trump’s nominees to the court lied to win confirmation. They told key senators that Roe [...]