The emergency is vaccine mandates. And a special session is being convened to pass GOP-sponsored bills which “call for banning vaccine passports and enacting $500,000 fines for companies that fire, demote, promote, compensate or refuse to hire an individual based on whether they are inoculated[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
October 17th, 2021 - 1:56 pm § in Politics
Idaho to audit ballots in all 50 states!
“Ten Idaho legislators … have signed a letter calling for an audit of 2020 election results in all 50 states,” a Spokane newspaper reports here. “The letter was originally written by Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican,” the story says, adding, “Rogers a[...]
October 14th, 2021 - 4:14 pm § in Law and Courts
States’ rights
“Lawyers for supporters of the Texas abortion law told a federal appeals court Thursday that the state was free to pass its law banning abortion after about six weeks because states can reach their own conclusions about whether abortion [is] constitutional,” NBC News reported on Thursday[...]
Idaho doctor: “We’ve lost the war”
The virus is here to stay, Dr. Steven Nemerson, chief clinical officer at Saint Alphonsus Health System of Boise, told reporters on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 (read story here). “Today I’m here to tell you we’ve lost the war.” “The reason it is here to stay,” he ad[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 12:53 pm § in Racism
Paint it white
That’s not a new Rolling Stones release. It’s what a Florida city did to a mural depicting black firefighters. Latosha Clemons, a black woman, joined Boynton Beach’s fire department in 1996 and became its deputy chief in 2016. The city’s population is 62% white and 30% black.[...]
October 1st, 2021 - 11:13 am § in Law and Courts
How to beat Texas’ anti-abortion law
Even though abortion is still a constitutional right, for now, the media give the impression Texas’ law against it is unassailable in the courts. For example, The Hill noted (here) the law’s novel approach of “private enforcement has thrown up procedural obstacles to” legal c[...]
September 28th, 2021 - 8:11 pm § in Politics
To South Dakota’s GOP governor, blood is thicker than ethics
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (photo, left), who wants to be president, is embroiled in a corruption scandal. “Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employe[...]
September 28th, 2021 - 4:16 pm § in Politics
Texas governor underwater in polls
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is for guns, and against voting, masks, gay marriage, and sex toys. He signed a bill offering citizen vigilantes bounties to sue strangers for exercising the constitutional right to an abortion. So why is he so popular with Texas voters? Does he have a killer chili recipe? Tur[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Health
“Mama, I don’t want to die”
She’s dead. Two weeks ago, she was a healthy 20-year-old daycare teacher. Now, she’s another Covid-19 statistic in Idaho. “Idaho continues to set record highs with 686 hospitalized COVID-19 patients as of September 18, 180 of them in intensive care unit beds and 112 on ventilators,[...]
Who’s responsible for the Covid-19 mess we’re in?
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[...]