In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, sacked a county prosecutor for saying he wouldn’t enforce abortion and transgender laws. In Washington, Loren Culp, a small-town cop, earned a run for governor by refusing to enforce a gun safety law. In Colorado, a “Second Amendm[...]
Archive for November, 2022
November 25th, 2022 - 2:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
This police killing cost taxpayers over $10 million
On January 18, 2016, Daniel Shaver, 26, a Texas pest control worker, was killed in cold blood in the hallway of a Mesa, Arizona, hotel by a police officer who was later acquitted of murder by a jury (read details here). Shaver, who was intoxicated, didn’t exercise perfect judgment. He had a pe[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kyle Rittenhouse is still an awful person
I was astonished, yet not really surprised, to read there’s a video game called “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Turkey Shoot.” It’s exactly what the title implies: Gamers pretend to be the teenaged killer and try to gun down virtual turkeys (read story here). In a video promoting t[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 1:03 am § in Jews
Steven Spielberg wants to say something (video)
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The New Right’s dangerous idea
The New Right, Vox writer Zach Beauchamp says (here), is “a loose grouping of conservative thinkers who advocate aggressively wielding state power to promote a more conservative culture.” One of their apostles is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has presidential ambitions. He has aggressiv[...]
It’s easy to debate a conservative
I’ll show you, with a specific example. I’m going to pick apart this piece by James Antle III, a conservative pundit (see his profile here). Before diving into it, though, I’ll remark that we don’t hear much political debate in the U.S. anymore, just a lot of partisan noise. [...]
The real reason Kari Lake lost
Kari Lake is a flake, and even Republicans won’t vote for her. That’s how she lost the 2022 election for Arizona governor (read story here). The Arizona Republic, the state’s biggest newspaper, dissected the election and found … (drum roll) … not voting fraud, but ̶[...]
November 24th, 2022 - 12:41 pm § in News Media, Republicans
Fox and GOP stoke anti-LGBQT hate
A day after the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Fox superstar Tucker Carlson and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis were busy inciting more gratuitous violence against LGBQT people. This is America, land of free speech, and they can do that, up to a point. Cross a line and you can be sued, as [&h[...]
November 23rd, 2022 - 11:39 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Maybe we should do what Brazil does
Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro lost his re-election bid last month (details here). Despite predictions that Bolsanaro, a rightwinger, wouldn’t leave quietly, he kept quiet on election night. When some of his key allies said, “it’s over,” that took the air out of his ballo[...]
Will the prosecutor DeSantis fired win reinstatement in the courts?
Andrew Warren (bio here) is a former federal prosecutor, and currently the elected prosecuting attorney in Tampa, Florida. He was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on August 4, 2022, for “neglect of duty” because he signed a letter saying he wouldn’t enforce GOP-enacted Florida pr[...]