Beau Wise grew up in a family of military heroes, and followed his two older brothers into the service. But after both were killed in Afghanistan, his Marine Corps career was effectively over, thanks to the Pentagon’s “sole survivor” policy, which meant he would never be sent into [...]
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Do blacks have 2nd Amendment rights?
Heck no! The 2nd Amendment was never meant to apply to them, it was meant to apply against them! And, largely, still is. Oh, a black guy can go to the Bureau of Non-Regulation of Firearms, get a permit (because they have to give it to him), and carry a gun just like white folks. But […][...]
Can a hospital require employees to get vaccinated?
A Texas hospital chain with 26,000 employees is demanding they all get vaccinated against Covid-19 by June 7 or lose their jobs, although it offered exemptions for pregnant women, other medical reasons, and religious objectors. Some of those not eligible for exemption are unhappy, and 117 of them ar[...]
Why the GOP descended into lunacy
In 2012, two political scientists wrote an essay for the Washington Post (read it here) that was startlingly prescient: The Republican Party, they said, was becoming “”ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dis[...]
Idaho annexes Oregon!
Well, not yet, but Oregon’s Trumpers are trying. “Voters in five rural Oregon counties approved measures on Tuesday to consider joining the state of Idaho,” because they don’t like being governed by Democrats, The HIll reported on May 19, 2021. In which case, why stop with a [...]
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Russian criminal gang behind pipeline hack
A Russian criminal gang was behind the ransomware attack that shut down a pipeline carrying half the U.S. East Coast’s fuel supply, media sources reported on Monday, May 10, 2021 (see NBC News story here). The pipeline remains shut down, and it’s unknown when it’ll come back on lin[...]
Gutless Republicans
We admire courage in soldiers, police, firefighters, rescuers — in everyone. John F. Kennedy wrote a book called “Profiles in Courage” about “eight American patriots, mainly United States Senators, who at crucial moments in our nation’s history, … disregarded dreadful[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Freedom Ride
On May 4, 1961, a Greyhound bus with 13 civil rights activists aboard left Washington, D.C.; on May 20, in Jackson, Mississippi, the so-called “Freedom Riders” were attacked by a white mob. Wikipedia says (here) that “southern … police considered the actions of the Freedom Ri[...]
Is Donald Trump the Messiah?
I was going to say “no,” but then something stopped me, and made me write: “Hell no!” Because if he is the second coming, which a lot of Americans apparently believe, then Satan is laughing his ass off down in Hell. In August 2019, Bess Levins, a politics correspondent for [...]