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The Second Coming – and I don’t mean Jesus.
December 14, 2024
I have been saying for a while now that we are in a second civil war. I’m no longer alone. Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now interviewed professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign. “The Confederacy won,” says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It
Surprise Surprise: Donald Trump is Not Going to Lower Consumer Prices
December 13, 2024
Told you so. Despite campaign promises that he and his new administration would lower prices for the American People. Here he is on the campaign trail making that promise at a grocery store. Well, now President-Elect Donald Trump is saying, not so fast. In an interview with Time Magazine, the person who set the record
Tom Horne and the Arizona Board of Education Keep Deepening the Abyss of Potential ESA Fraud
December 12, 2024
Arizona’s Attorney General indicted an out-of-state couple on December 2 for fraudulently siphoning off $110,000 in state taxpayer funds through 43 ghost/phantom school vouchers (ESAs). Ignoring the fraud, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne notified the State Board of Education 10 days later that the state would immediately issue funds for all expense requests
Iran Is Likely Going for Nuclear Breakout in 2025 and It’s Trump’s Fault
December 12, 2024
I have a few musings to share about goings on in the Middle East. Take them for what they are worth; it’s just some thoughts and from my perspective as an avid observer of global security matters. Trump’s incompetence in national security and international affairs is why Iran is just about to develop a nuclear
AZ Attorney General Mayes Sues Saudi Company for Over Pumping AZ’s Water Supply
December 12, 2024
Here we go again. Earlier this year, thanks to actions spearheaded by the Arizona Attorney Generals Office and Arizona Land Department, Governor Katie Hobbs terminated the land leases of four Saudi owned farms for over pumping the local water supply in Butler Valley. Yesterday (December 11, 2024,) the Arizona Attorney Generals Office headed by Kris
Trump won Voters who Got their News from Podcasts, YouTube and Social Media
December 11, 2024
Political analyst Taegan Goddard says that Democrats lost the election because the party didn’t keep up with voters who got their news from new media platforms. Meanwhile, Harris performed best among those who got their news from CNN and mainstream broadcast news. Goddard founded Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political websites. I have a
For Those Who Still Believe in Reality. Watch President Joe Biden Deliver Remarks on the United States Economy.
December 11, 2024
For those who still believe in reality. Watch President Joe Biden deliver remarks on the United States Economy. It is important to remember that historically speaking Reagan, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama won re-election with less impressive economic numbers. What does that say about 77 million American Citizens who put misinformation and the lies of
“Will No One Rid Me of These Meddlesome Political Opponents?”
December 10, 2024
In a play on the famous quote from Murder in the Cathedral when King Henry II of Britain, frustrated with Thomas Beckett, openly asks “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?,” Democracy’s Docket’s head Marc Elias and his team, after watching Donald Trump’s Meet the Press Interview with Kristen Welker on December 8,
