Russian Occupation of Crimea March 2014 “Armed men of uncertain allegiance,” the New York Times called them in a dispatch from Simferopol, on Feb. 28: “Their military uniforms bore no insignia and it was not clear who they were or who was commanding them.” But journalists on the scene didn’t take long to identify them … Read more
Tucson Unified School District Board member Adelita Grijalva is running for Pima County Supervisor in District 5, which covers mostly west Tucson, as well as parts of midtown and the south side. Grijalva is the daughter of Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, who also served as a Pima County Supervisor and TUSD board member. She presented … Read more
The Atlantic reports, James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution (excerpts from the introduction): James Mattis, the Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. After his resignation, he … Read more
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is the Douglas Neidermeyer of the United States Senate. For readers who remember the classic John Landis 1978 movie Animal House, Douglas Neidermeyer was a snobby military psychopathic college ROTC commander who tormented one of the Delta House Members, trying to shoot him with live bullets at a homecoming parade at … Read more
The Biden Campaign has released its latest ad called “Build the Future.” It is a collection of excerpts of some of the notable quotes from the 2020 Presumptive Democratic Nominee’s address in Philadelphia on June 2, 2020, where he denounced the divisiveness and fringe acts of Donald Trump and described how he would conduct himself … Read more