The Messy Fall of Afghanistan is Entirely Trump’s Fault
Well, nearly so, anyway. There is a clear and indisputable context we need to keep in mind in evaluating Biden’s Afghan policy: Trump demanded and got the release of the leader of the political office of the Taliban, Baradar, from jail in Pakistan. Baradar then led the negotiations in Qatar with the US for our … Read more
Breaking: Texas Supreme Court Denies Gov. Greg Abbott’s Request To Block School District Mask Mandates
On Sunday, virtually every news organization in America reported that the Texas Supreme Court had upheld Governor Greg Abbott’s mask ban. No, the Court only ruled on a request for an emergency stay of an appellate court ruling that would have allowed schools to make masks mandatory. The New York Times reported, The Texas State … Read more
Ducey Packed AZ Supreme Court Temporarily Upholds Prop. 208, With A Roadmap To Gutting It
Gov. Ducey and our lawless MAGA/QAnon Republican legislature tried to nullify the constitutional right of Arizonans to enact citizens initiatives to improve funding for public education, which they have steadfastly refused to do for many years. Voters approved the Invest In Ed Act (Proposition 208), to impose a small surtax on the wealthy to generate … Read more
Public Corruption: Governor Ducey’s Bribery Of School Districts Is Malfeasance In Office
Governor Ducey and our lawless MAGA/Qanon Trump death cult GQP legislature lost in court, just as I said they should. Judge says law doesn’t yet block Phoenix Union mask mandate. Nevertheless, our murderously incompetent governor persists. He is now using a “carrot and stick” approach in his executive orders that amounts to illegal bribery, which … Read more
The Biden/Harris Administration Strikes Back against the Anti Mask-Anti Vaccine Governors including Doug Ducey
Fed up with Republican Governors that are spending more time catering and humoring their Know Nothing-Science Denying-Anti Mask-Anti Vaxer fringe base rather than promoting public safety, President Joe Biden lashed out at leading former party of Lincoln state leaders during a Wednesday afternoon address to the nation, warning that the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona … Read more
Pima Board of Health Votes to End Anonymous Sales at Gun Show
The Pima County Board of Health has voted to require that only Federally Firearms Licensed vendors can sell weapons at gun shows at the Pima Fairgrounds. This will end sales by unlicensed gun dealers who sell guns anonymously without a background check and without keeping records. “Background checks are the only way to identify and … Read more
The Pro-War Bias Of The Media Has Failed Us In Covering The ‘Forever Wars’ For 20 Years
The media to a large extent has been a complete failure in covering the Taliban victory in Afghanistan after twenty years of Donald Rumsfeld’s “Forever Wars.” The cable jockeys have actually trotted out the Neocon war monger architects of the Forever Wars from the Project For a New American Century (PNAC), the George W. Bush … Read more
What COVID Deniers Call ‘Freedom’ is Just White Privilege
You hear it all the time: the anti-vaxxer, and anti-masker, and outright COVID deniers proclaim that they refuse public health measures in the name of their ‘freedom’. They are not using that word in a way that I recognize as anything approaching our traditional American concept of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, liberty and happiness; … Read more
