It is very important for the people of this country (especially in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) to turn out and vote the 2016 Popular Vote Loser out of office through the Electoral College. It is equally vital that the citizens of Kentucky oust the current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. This writer and others have … Read more
President Donald Trump’s top immigration official on Tuesday offered a revised version of the poem long displayed inside the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal that aligns more closely with the administration’s latest rule aimed at curbing the number of people who enter the United States legally. Trump immigration official offers rewrite for Statue of Liberty poem: … Read more
This may be hard to believe but it was Republican Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon that led the way in starting land conservation, creating National Parks, launching the Environmental Protection Agency, cleaning our rivers, terrain, and air, and signing the Endangered Species Act. Those enlightened Republican Administrations have given way to an Anti Science … Read more
Readers of the Charles Dickens classic will remember the scene early in the tale where two philanthropic businessmen visit Scrooge at his business and ask that he contribute charity to help the unfortunate. Scrooge dismisses them, saying that he wants to be left alone and that the prisons and workhouses he supports through the taxes … Read more
The New York Times has done an analysis of the striking degree of overlap between the incendiary rhetoric of right-wing media provocateurs and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars … Read more