There’s no limit to Republican lying. That’s the lesson from a pair of Supreme Court rulings last week. In the first, the 5-4 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, it became evident that all three of Trump’s nominees to the court lied to win confirmation. They told key senators that Roe [...]
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June 24th, 2022 - 5:46 pm § in Politics
Nevada voters beware; Republican candidate is lying about keeping abortion legal there
Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied under oath in their confirmation hearings. (See stories here and here). Can’t do anything about that now. Adam Laxalt (photo, left), a GOP Senate nominee, says, “The people of Nevada have already voted to make abortion rights legal in our state and the Cou[...]
June 8th, 2022 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP opposed this judicial nominee because she helped free innocent people
Nina Morrison, a lawyer who “spent the last 20 years being the senior litigation counsel at the New York-based Innocence Project, an organization focused on exonerating wrongly convicted people through DNA testing,” was confirmed to a federal judgeship by a 53-46 vote on Wednesday, June [...]
Democrats accuse Trump’s justices of lying, but did they?
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused ‘several’ Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices of lying to the Senate about their views of Roe v. Wade,” Huffington Post reported after a draft opinion by Samuel Alito leaked to the media. [...]
April 9th, 2022 - 9:14 pm § in Misc.
Can mass shootings be stopped?
A journalist (profile here) who studies mass shootings, created a mass shooting database, and wrote a book about preventing them thinks the science of behavioral threat assessment may offer a solution. Get the book here and watch video below. For an example of how it’s being used by public sch[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 7:45 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Texas GOP candidate for Congress berates college education
First, let’s start with what Christian Collins is for. He’s for himself succeeding retiring Rep. Kevin Brady in Texas’ heavily-Republican 8th District in S.E. Texas (profile here, see map below), for whom he worked as a campaign manager. He’s also for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Gre[...]
Democrats should take this offer
Some Republican senators appear to be offering to support legislation which would clarify that vice presidents have no power to reject states’ electoral votes, and provide federal protections for election workers. This isn’t as expansive as the Democratic voting rights bill that Republic[...]
Who will replace Justice Breyer?
Liberal justice Stephen Breyer, who turns 84 this year, has either decided to take it easy or bowed to pressure to vacate his Supreme Court seat while Biden still has the Senate votes to replace him with another liberal. It’s not 100% sure a Biden pick couldn’t be confirmed if Democrats [...]
January 2nd, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Racism
PHOTOGRAPHY: Four little girls
The “Four Spirits” statue across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, unveiled in 2013 (details here), commemorates the four girls killed by the 1963 KKK church bombing: Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Rosamond Robertson, 14, and Cyn[...]
Why Trump deserved to lose
“The Trump administration engaged in ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released [on] Friday,” December 17, 2021, says (read story here). While the report was put out by a House subcom[...]