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October 24th, 2024 - 2:24 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Law and Courts, Politics

Will Hunter Biden be pardoned?

As the Biden administration winds down, many people will start wondering if the president’s son, convicted of multiple felonies, will escape prison time by being let off the hook. Not necessarily by who you think, though. Biden has publicly said he won’t pardon his son (see story here). [...]

October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

The tides of political change

Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]

October 20th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Republicans

Why nobody listens to Sen. Lindsey Graham

Like many Republican politicians, Graham once condemned Trump, but now is a fawning sycophant. In this media interview, he loses his cool and descends into shouting and silliness. Liz Cheney says “don’t listen to Lindsey Graham,” calling ignoring him “good life advice.”[...]

October 18th, 2024 - 10:50 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

Conspiracy mongers dust off sexual assault playbook against Walz

Sexual assault is a real thing, and sexual scandals have brought down many celebrities and powerful men. Perhaps the most infamous of these are financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison, and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, now languishing in prison. Donald Trump, who bragged that women allow f[...]

October 16th, 2024 - 4:40 am § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

Biden sternly rebukes Trump

Every election is a battle for the soul of America. Trump has painted a dystopian picture of our nation, portraying it as a hellscape of crime and a nation of losers. That may resonate with some folks, but the man who defeated Trump in the 2020 election isn’t buying any of it, nor hopping on [[...]

October 13th, 2024 - 3:03 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

J. D. Vance’s word games

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), depicted at left, is a Yale-educated lawyer and published writer who’s very good at manipulating the English language to make it look like he’s not lying when he is. Campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 12, 2024, Vance called Biden’s inaug[...]

October 13th, 2024 - 2:18 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Vance defends Trump’s FEMA lies

In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, Trump is peddling two big lies about federal aid to the devastated areas: (1) That FEMA aid has been diverted to illegal migrants, and (2) the Biden administration and Vice President Harris are withholding disaster aid from Republican areas. There isnR[...]

October 11th, 2024 - 1:17 am § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Kamala Harris, News Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans

How the Middle East could cost Harris the election

Grossly simplified, the Middle East conflict boils down to two peoples living in the same space. As you know, the latest stage of the conflict began Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,100 people, and took about 250 hostages. Israel responded with a m[...]

October 1st, 2024 - 3:56 pm § in Biden, Economics, Politics

Dockworkers’ strike shuts down East and Gulf coast ports

West coast ports remain open, because those dockworkers have a different union and negotiated a new contract a couple years ago. What’s behind the strike? Wages are front and center. West coast longshoremen, under their new contract, will make $60 an hour by 2027; the East and Gulf coast longshore[...]

September 30th, 2024 - 5:12 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

Trump lies about Biden’s hurricane response

While touring Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas of Georgia on Monday, Trump “repeatedly spread falsehoods … about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster,” the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2024 (read story here). Of c[...]