Political Calendar: Week of August 18, 2019
August 18, 2019
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Brahm Resnik should not have to apologize for Knowing History.
August 17, 2019
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Arizona Republicans like Kelli Ward and Paul Gosar are upset with journalist and Sunday Square Off Host Brahm Resnik. Why? Because he knows World History. This story begins on August 10 when the Arizona Republican Party issued an image (see above) on its Twitter account of a picturesque Arizona landscape with the caption of “One … Read more
How Russia uses economic influence and leverage to undermine US national security
August 16, 2019
As I’ve said before, “At some point the Russians figured out that the best way to defeat America is by old-fashioned capitalism and corruption: find easily corruptible politicians in key positions of power and simply buy them, through bribery or with campaign contributions.” “Moscow Mitch” McConnell took a beating this week in investigative journalism from the … Read more
9th Circuit Court of Appeals requires ‘safe and sanitary’ care for detained migrant children
August 16, 2019
Back in June, the morally depraved Trump administration actually argued before a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite the Flores settlement agreement that requires detainees … Read more
Let Omar and Tlaib into Israel
August 16, 2019
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Kevin McCarthy, the current House Minority Leader once made Anti Semitic tweets during the 2018 election cycle. The Israelis Government let him in Israel last week with other members of a bipartisan Congressional Delegation. The KKK Endorsed Candidate, despite (like Stalin) having Jewish grandchildren, has made numerous Anti-Semitic gestures throughout his political career. He just … Read more
No surprise: Senator Martha McSally sides with Trump’s anti-Muslim bigotry
August 16, 2019
The Washington Post editorializes today, Barring two U.S. lawmakers from Israel is un-Israeli. Trump’s cheering for it is un-American. President Trump has trampled on innumerable American democratic norms and traditions, but few instances have been as egregious as his public intervention Thursday urging Israel to deny entry to a pair of U.S. members of Congress who … Read more
To save American democracy, fight the radical Christian Right
August 15, 2019
One of Donald Trump’s very first official acts as president was his Muslim Travel Ban (version 1.0), on Jan. 27, 2017. Trump’s pandering on anti-Muslim bigotry is a sop to his white fundamentalist evangelical Christian Right base in the Republican Party, and their end-times Apocalyptic cult of the Rapture. And it is inextricably linked to the … Read more
