John Wahl, 36, the Alabama Republican Party chair, is the scion of a politically prominent northern Alabama family who claim they’re exempt from their state’s election law requiring photo ID to vote. A local news source says (here), “Under Alabama law, a person can vote without pho[...]
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If you’re gonna be a hypocrite, you might as well get rich from it
Republicans are notorious for hypocrisy, but Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) takes it to a higher level. Higher income level, that is. Johnson (photo, left) was owner and CEO of Pacur, a Wisconsin plastics manufacturer that made him a wealthy man. As the Guardian notes (here), Johnson is “a vocal crit[...]
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Why Republicans think voting fraud is rampant
I suspect people who go around sawing off catalytic converters probably install protective shields on their own cars because they’re afraid theirs will be stolen, too. Abraham Hamadeh, 31, is the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general. He doesn’t trust elections, and for a perfectly [...]
Paul Pelosi isn’t above the law
Paul Pelosi, 82, a wealthy San Francisco real estate investor and husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is paying a price for driving impaired and injuring another driver. Pelosi crashed his late-model Porsche into an SUV while driving after dark in California’s wine country on May 28, 2[...]
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it!
No abortion enforcement, no flood control money. That’s the position of Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry, a sanctimonious Republican anti-abortion zealot who’s flipping the (mostly black) citizens of New Orleans a big bird because their city government asked local law enforcers to [...]
Kayleigh McEnany says something intelligent, but still has blind spots
The first time I saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV, she impressed me as a twit, and my opinion of her hasn’t changed much. She currently works as a Fox News propagandist, which is an appropriate placement for her. She doesn’t belong in respectable journalism. Even though I pronounce her name &#[...]
Why is a girl too young to have an abortion, old enough to be a parent?
Self-contradicting conservative rationalization is playing out in Florida courts, where a circuit judge, then a state appeals court, ruled a pregnant 16-year-old is not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” (See NBC News story here.) Florida law requires minors to g[...]
California Democrat indicted for financial crimes
Terrance “TJ” Cox (photo left, bio here), a Central California ag-sector businessman who served a single term in Congress (2019-2021), has been indicted for wire fraud, money laundering, financial institution fraud, campaign funds fraud, CNN reported on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (read sto[...]
August 15th, 2022 - 11:29 pm § in Hypocrisy
Will you be in the “heat belt”?
Animals, including humans, can biologically adapt to climate change, but it takes millenia. We don’t have that much time. Climate change will bring “extremely dangerous” heat and humidity to the U.S. in the next 30 years, according to a climate research group, CNN reported on Monda[...]