After days of speculation and a Friday phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Joe Biden officially recognized the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as a genocide on the 106th anniversary of the start of the atrocities. That is a victory for human rights, the American Ideal, … Read more
I remember having dinner with my wife and her brother and sisters at Applebees after Donald Trump won the Electoral College in 2016. I remember commenting that watch out, we’ll wind up missing George W. Bush after four years of Donald Trump. I remember my brother-in-law and younger sister-in-law laughing thinking I was joking. Unfortunately, … Read more
There is NO doubt that Donald Trump and his cultist followers in the Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar Alternative Fact Universe encouraged a fringe mob of gullible and violent domestic terrorists to storm the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Need a reminder. Some Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin I want to be Speaker but … Read more
Parodying the title of Sinclair Lewis’s famous work It Can’t Happen Here, the Lincoln Project’s new ad “Never Happens Here” warns that the country is being divided into a pro autocratic faction and a pro-Democratic-Republic one. Saying “we’re only one Presidential election from the end of America as we’ve known it,” the narrator goes on … Read more
Russian Bolshevism under Lenin was not a majority movement in 1917 and 1918. Italian Fascism headed by Mussolini was not a majority movement from 1919 to 1922. German Nazism personified by Hitler was not a majority movement from 1919 to 1933. Richard Nixon’s 1968 election was not the will of the majority. The same with … Read more