Two black men– George Floyd of Minneapolis and Dion Johnson of Phoenix — died on the same day at the hands of law enforcement officers. In the video, Floyd says he can’t breathe as a white officer pins him to the ground with his knee. Why is that even an approved tactic for police? There is no video of … Read more
Colin Powell, once Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor, George H.W. Bush’s (and Bill Clinton’s) Joint Chiefs Chairman of the United States Military, George W. Bush’s first Secretary of State, and once thought of as a Republican Presidential candidate (in 1996,) has not been fond of his Republican Party leadership for a while. It started in … Read more
On Memorial Day weekend, the History Channel aired a 3 part biopic series on Ulysses S. Grant, the winning general in the American Civil War and two-term president during Reconstruction after the war. Who could have known that a Minneapolis Police officer would murder a black man, George Floyd, on Memorial Day, sparking a new … Read more
With the 76th anniversary of D Day this weekend, the Lincoln Project released a series of video ads designed to show that Donald Trump is no match for the bravery of General James Mattis, the responsibility of Dwight Eisenhower, and the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln. The first ad, titled “Mattis,” first compares General and former … Read more
Above: The Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach east of St Laurent-sur-Mer. There are 9,387 crosses or stars of David made of Carrara marble marking the graves. Saturday was the 76th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of “Fortress Europe” on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, in a war to rid the world of fascism. … Read more