You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]
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June 30th, 2024 - 9:20 am § in Politics, Republicans
Rightwing group is compiling a federal employee blacklist
A private conservative group, profiled here, plans to name online federal employees they regard as hostile with the intent of forcing them out of their jobs, the Guardian reported on Sunday, June 30, 2024 (read story here). The federal civil service system was establish in 1871 to replace the politi[...]
How secession could work
GOP firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We need a national divorce,” and while her idea of splitting up red and blue states won’t work, it’s not worth another civil war to keep Republicans in the Union. The divorce part is easy; we’re already divorced. Republicans a[...]
January 20th, 2023 - 7:33 pm § in Business
Oklahoma pork plant fired worker, then called cops who killed him
Guymon, Oklahoma, is a town in the dusty Oklahoma panhandle. It was a dying town until the pork plant came in the 1990s. In 2014, an Oklahoma newspaper gushed (here), “On the northeast corner of town, cradled by a cluster of dilapidated trailer homes, sits a business that many credit for start[...]
December 15th, 2022 - 3:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Trigger-happy white cop convicted of shooting black woman
A trigger-happy Texas cop who killed a black woman while investigating an open door at her home was convicted by a jury of manslaughter on Thursday, December 15, 2022 (read story here). A neighbor had made a non-emergency call to 911 in the early hours of October 12, 2019, upon seeing an open door a[...]
April 17th, 2022 - 2:46 pm § in News Media, Politics
Another shooting, another GOP rant without solutions
Forgive me for yawning; I can’t help it. This is getting tiresome. As you know, a 62-year-old drifter wounded 10 people on a New York City subway last week. Police quickly arrested him, and we know he has a dozen prior misdemeanor arrests. He’s almost certainly mentally ill, but was able[...]
February 2nd, 2022 - 12:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Cop gets 2 years in prison for clubbing protester
It was May 3, 2020, a few weeks after Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman, was killed by police shooting into her apartment. Protests against her death, and other killings of black people by police, were occurring. In Louisville, Kentucky, where Taylor was killed, a protester “was kneeling[...]
Studies show racial disparity in Covid-19 treatment
Treating Covid-19 is still a work in progress. (So is preventing infections, but we won’t go into that here.) Disease experts, drug developers, and doctors are still learning what treatments and drugs are helpful to save severely ill Covid-19 patients. When Trump was hospitalized, and apparent[...]
Gov. Inslee’s stupid idea
“I guess it was inevitable, as political tribalism rises, that the impulse would also grow to simply suppress stuff that one camp or another sees as wrong or dangerous or uncomfortable,” Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes here. Republicans certainly are doing that with their l[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 7:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops manhandle black paraplegic
Newly-released bodycam video shows two Dayton, Ohio, white cops yanking a paraplegic black man out of his vehicle and throwing him to the ground after stopping him for a traffic offense on September 30, 2021. The cops wanted him out of the vehicle so a dog could sniff for drugs. When Clifford Owensb[...]