Just one month ago, VA officials were warning that they faced staffing shortages and lack of PPE for safe operations in their veterans’ facilities across the country. As of March 27th, they had confirmed 571 cases of COVID19 among their patients, and 185 among staff. As I write now, one month later on April 28th, … Read more
I have often wondered why anyone in their right mind would ever want to be a patient of Doctor Kelli Ward, D.O. (yes, she is an actual doctor), former state senator and Chair of the Arizona Republican Party. She is frequently one of the most extremely offensive and outrageous of the far-right Tea Party yahoos … Read more
There are two cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court that represent Republican efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare.” Today the U.S. Supreme Court overwhelmingly rejected that Republican effort in the lesser of the two cases, which I believe it is fair to read, in light of tens of thousands of Americans … Read more
Project Vote Smart started in 1988 and by 1992 morphed into just Vote Smart (www.votesmart.org). The original founders ranged from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford to Senators Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, Governor Michael Dukakis and Congresswomyn Pat Schroeder and Geraldine Ferraro. Arizona native Richard Kleindienst, former Nixon U.S. Attorney General, who pled … Read more
Malignant narcissist Donald Trump got all nonplused and angry over the humiliating beatdown he took from all sides in the media for his utterly moronic — and dangerous — suggestion at Thursday’s “Daily Trump Show” that doctors should investigate whether injecting household cleaning supplies like bleach and Lysol into the body could kill the coronavirus … Read more