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Just When You Thought It Could Not Get Worse, The Senate Republicans Released a Budget Blueprint More Hurtful Toward the People Than the House

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Honestly, this should not be a surprise to the American People. Since the time of Reagan, Republicans before Donald Trump have been proposing historically discredited supply side trickle down economics budgets that make the rich richer, the poor poorer, the middle class smaller, and the national debt higher. With Trump doing their bidding, this third … Read more

Mainstream Media Needs to Get the First Draft of History Right and Better Call Out Trump/MAGA Republican Big Lie Talking Points

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Before going to Fort Bragg yesterday to tell the cheering apparently historically illiterate servicemen that he was going to restore certain forts names after the Confederate Generals they had before, said that we would be speaking Japanese if the United States did not win World War One, and his usual litany of lying talking points … Read more

It Looks Like Democracy Has Died at the Washington Post

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It looks like the Washington Post, whose owner Jeff Bezos is making nice with the incoming Trump-Vance Administration, is proving their slogan that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Bezos, whose influence nixed the papers ready endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris before the November elections, apparently put his foot down on an unpublished editorial cartoon by … Read more

For Judicial Openings, the Biden/Harris Administration Has Delivered on Women and Non-White Nominees

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Unlike Donald ‘I killed Roe v Wade’ Trump whose judicial nominations were often white, male, and philosophically regressive, President Joe Biden, in greater numbers than Democrats Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, has chosen candidates that reflect the modern demographics and mainstream views of America. The Washington Post recently did an analysis comparing Biden and past … Read more

Bidenomics on the March: More Good News from the Job Market

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Economists were predicting 200,000 jobs were created last month. Fortunately, they were wrong. The numbers in the March jobs report showed approximately 303,000 positions created and a drop in the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent. It is the 26th straight month where unemployment has been below four percent. Historically, the last time this trend occurred … Read more