They’re Christian nationalists, and they have a vision of America that doesn’t include you. They aim to “take over America for Jesus,” and J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is their hero and torch-bearer. “They are extremely online, constantly posting on myr[...]
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October 4th, 2024 - 2:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate claims America was a “bad guy” in WW2
Royce White’s specialty is basketball, not history, and it shows in his public comments. White (profile here) is a non-serious candidate in Minnesota’s 2024 U.S. Senate election. He’s a throwaway candidate, i.e. a placeholder on the ballot for a hopeless race shunned by career poli[...]
September 25th, 2024 - 2:03 pm § in Misc.
America’s greatest foods
Apple pie, of course, makes the list. So do hamburgers, chili, grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chocolate-chip cookies, and peanut-butter-and-jelly (popularly known as PBJ) sandwiches. Also two of my personal favorites, reuben sandwiches and clam chowder (seafood dishes are very popular here in Seatt[...]
Will Stephen Miller be America’s Heydrich?
Stephen Miller (bio here), an immigration hardliner, likely would become immigration czar in a second Trump administration. Trump has promised “the largest mass deportation campaign in US history,” Mother Jones says (read article here); and last weekend, in a Truth Social post (view it [...]
Speaking about “a concern that Americans have” …
Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), passed over by Trump when he chose his 2024 running mate, is defending Trump’s latest election rant. On Saturday, September 7, 2024, Trump posted this on his social media platform: “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of th[...]
September 5th, 2024 - 6:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Are these America’s worst parents?
Every time a kid shoots up a school, people ask, “where did he get the weapon?” Georgia school shooter Colt Gray’s father gave him the AR-15 “as a holiday present” after police interviewed the boy about online threats to shoot up a school. This level of parental indiffe[...]
A brief history of free speech in America
Free speech as we know it occurred late in American history, is fragile, and could go away. For most of American history, unpopular political views could (and did) get dissidents, organizers, publishers, and even artists thrown in prison. The notion of a “free trade in ideas,” which spra[...]
Was American still held by Russia “stabbed in the back”?
It was a deal that took more than a year, and intense diplomatic effort, to put together. Russia exchanged 16 foreigners, mostly ordinary people, for 8 Russians who were spies, an assassin, and cybercriminals. It was a lopsided trade in Moscow’s favor, but the only way to bring the 16 detainees ho[...]
July 22nd, 2024 - 8:06 pm § in Misc.
Will Vance repudiate GOPer’s “civil war to save America” remarks?
This issue landed in J. D. Vance’s lap when George Lang (photo, left), an Ohio businessman and GOP state senator from Vance’s hometown, declared that “if Republicans don’t win the 2024 election it could lead to a civil war to ‘save the country'” (read story here). It [...]
Will corporate communists take over America?
“To each according to what he wants; from each according to his ability to pay” That could become a common corporate mantra in the United States of America. Under the increasingly pervasive personalized pricing system, corporations set prices based on what they know about for you. Need a toothb[...]