China and Russia just wrapped up a week of joint military exercises with hundreds of ships and planes. This was “the latest in a recent slew of military exercises and joint patrols between Russia and China that come on the heels of vows from Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to tighten milit[...]
Archive for September, 2024
J. D. Vance doesn’t care he provoked school bomb threats
J. D. Vance (photo, left) just keeps getting more odious. The man who wants to replace America’s democratic elites with an unelected conservative ruling elite that would impose unpopular policies on the American people (see story here) is unapologetic for the mayhem he unleashed on Springfield[...]
Trump judge suggests National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
Federal judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee frequently in the news because of his partisan rulings, upon issuing a temporary injunction against the NLRB, said an employer accused of union-busting was “likely to prevail” in arguing the federal agency’s structure is unconstitutiona[...]
GOP sheriff asks public to report Harris supporters
An Ohio sheriff’s social media page is instructing residents “to keep a list of homes displaying campaign signs” supporting Kamala Harris, the Guardian reported on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (read story here). In the post, Sheriff Bruce D Zuchowski (photo, left) referred to Harris[...]
September 17th, 2024 - 9:29 am § in Israel/Palestine
Israeli settlers attack West Bank school, beating teachers and children
Illegal Israeli settlers armed with bats attacked teachers and children at a Bedouin school in the West Bank on Monday, September 16, 2024, multiple news sources reported. Five Palestinians and four anti-occupation activists were injured. Israeli police watched, then arrested two Palestinians. Earli[...]
September 16th, 2024 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
Don’t elect Carrie R. Kennedy to Washington’s legislature
Carrie R. Kennedy (photo, right; profile here) is an Oath Keeper who ran for Congress in 2022, finishing 6th in the primary (see results here), and is running for a legislative seat in 2024 in a district that includes Whidbey Island. Although she eked out a weak second place in the primary and is on[...]
J. D. Vance blundered four times in one week
J. D. Vance is a political novice and klutz. He had no experience in politics before being elected to the Senate two years ago; and it painfully shows. Six days ago he suggested solving America’s day care crisis by asking Grandpa and Grandma to watch the kids while the parents work. Five day[...]
September 11th, 2024 - 9:03 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Kamala Harris’s earnings are only earrings
Republicans love conspiracy theories, and their latest is that Kamala Harris cheated during the debate by getting coaching from her earrings. It seems there’s a German company that makes earphones disguised as pearl earrings (see story here). But there’s only superficial resemblance betw[...]
September 11th, 2024 - 2:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Ma’am, your son is a monster
The parents of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, who killed 4 people and wounded 7 others, aren’t pillars of the community; but at least his mother, Marcee Gray, tried to warn the school about her son, and now she’s apologizing for what he did. “To the parents and families of those aff[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Unity
When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, Americans came together to fight World War 2. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans came together again, and that event still unites us in a way that transcends politics. The photo below was taken on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, the day after the T[...]