Covid-19 has savaged America. Our country’s death rate is 40 times that of Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan. Here: Over 2,000 per million of population. There: Under 50 per million. Why? They have common sense; we have Republicans. “Many lives would have been sa[...]
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September 9th, 2021 - 11:52 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Should you get the death penalty for a broken tail light?
Philando Castile did. On July 6, 2016, he was summarily executed, without trial, after being pulled over for a tail light that wasn’t working. Some might argue he had it coming as a serial traffic offender. An article in the Guardian says here that “he had been pulled over on at least 40[...]
June 13th, 2021 - 2:13 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
What’s wrong with Trump?
Everything. It’s been said that everyone has some good in them, but I’m hard pressed to think of any of Trump’s redeeming qualities. As far as I can tell, he has none. On the other hand, it’s easy to recall his failings, weaknesses, and bad traits, because he has so many of t[...]
May 19th, 2021 - 8:54 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Update: Ex-cops charged in brutal arrest of confused elderly woman
“On June 26, 2020, a Loveland, Colorado cop violently arrested a frail, elderly, confused woman, breaking her bones,” I previously posted on April 17, 2021, here. “Karen Garner, 73, who suffers from dementia, had wandered away from her family to a nearby Walmart store, picked up $1[...]
Busting the “welfare queen” myth
I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh years ago while driving across country, on the only radio station I could pick up in eastern Montana. Congress was debating Obamacare, and Limbaugh was against it. He devoted his entire show to ranting about how Bill Gates would be eligible for the program. (Why[...]
March 31st, 2021 - 3:04 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Only in Texas: How can voting provisionally even be a crime?
“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman facing a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while she was on supervised release for a federal conviction,” the Tex[...]
GOP senators are systematically opposing Biden’s minority nominees
Who happens to be African-American. Rep. Marcia Fudge (R-OH) was confirmed to the cabinet position by a 66-34 favorable vote. (Read story here.) The 34 GOP senators who voted against her nomination are more than two-thirds of the GOP’s 50 senators. The vote is part of an emerging pattern of Re[...]
The Supreme Court’s next big voting rights case
In 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the opinion, said the VRA could prevent racially discriminatory voting laws through the act’s Section 2, which laws that pla[...]
BLM poll workers? Fine by me.
This article contains sarcastic liberal commentary. Carol Wolman, M.D., a California psychiatrist and peace activist, thinks BLM activists should sign up to be poll workers. Read her essay here. Fine by me. After describing BLM as a “movement is waging spiritual warfare against forces of racis[...]
Why the cops killed George Floyd
By now everyone has seen, or heard about, the video of accused police officer Derek Chauvin choking George Floyd to death while two other cops held Floyd down and another stood by fending off horrified onlookers; and to almost everyone watching that video, it looked like an act of murder. That video[...]