That’s the message Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, sent when he banned African-American studies from Florida schools. One of his explicit objections to the course was inclusion of “Black Lives Matter” materials. According to him, “Black Lives Matter” has n[...]
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December 14th, 2022 - 9:31 am § in Hypocrisy, News Media
Another example of why Fox is disreputable
Fox doesn’t do news, it does persuasion. Its talk shows, which are pure demagoguery, are by far its most popular fare. And its hosts are close-minded, intellectually dishonest pot-stirrers and hatemongers. They’re also liars. Take Laura Ingraham, for example, one of Fox‘s worst off[...]
What a “moderate” Republican said about Trump’s constitution remark
Glenn Youngkin got elected Virginia governor by persuading voters he’s a “moderate” Republican (he isn’t). NBC News reported here what he said about Trump’s “terminate the Constitution” remark: “There are small signs that fellow Republicans, including[...]
Ex-felon GOP candidate busted for voting illegally
Brian K. Pritchard (photo below), 56, presently of Cherry Log, Georgia, pleaded guilty in 1996 to three Pennsylvania felony charges of forgery and theft. He was still on probation when he registered to vote in Georgia in 2008, which made him ineligible to vote. That didn’t stop him from voting[...]
Different strokes for different folks
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[...]
GOP “election integrity” legislator signed his daughter’s absentee ballots in 3 elections
A Michigan state senator who campaigned in 2020 on election integrity (and won re-election) signed absentee ballots issued to his daughter in 2010 and for the 2016 primary and general elections. When confronted about the 2010 ballot, he accused his ex-wife of signing it. The signatures on the 2016 b[...]
Fanone attacker gets 7.5 years
Officer Michael Fanone’s near-death experience on Jan. 6, 2021, came to a denouement of sorts in court today. When Fanone and other cops were defending a building entry point against a mob attacking them with “chemical spray, poles, bats, and officers’ own batons and shields,” a [...]
Who would you vote for?
The kind, friendly pastor? Or the football player who suffered so many concussions he can’t remember how many children he has? For Republican voters, this is easy: The guy with the “R” after his name. It’s about power, not character. Their candidate in this race has none. He&[...]
Yawn, another GOP candidate is a lying hypocrite
This has become routine. I expect GOP candidates to be liars and hypocrites. (See, e.g., “pro-life” Herschel Walker, a GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, paying for his girlfriend’s abortion and lying about it.) Today I’m going to make an example of Mark Finchem, the QAnon-link[...]
September 26th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans
Why Sinema is wrong about the filibuster
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) thinks “the Senate should reinstate the 60-vote threshold for all judicial and executive branch nominees,” The Hill reported (here) on Monday, September 26, 2022. She made that remark during a Q&A following a speech at the University of Louisville’s M[...]