What I'm Saying About CRT This Year - OK, CRT Isn't Taught to 1st Graders
It’s another holiday family dinner with our crazy uncles. In our case, the conservatives in my family have to deal with their crazy Auntie, me. This annual convergence of family we all do is stressful...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Glenn Gruenhagen- 2021 Update
It was on this date in both 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Glenn Gruenhagen, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who...
View ArticleJohn Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave
“He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true,He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through,They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,But his soul...
View ArticleGet ready for GOP slings and arrows in Georgia—Perdue is primarying Gov. Kemp...
Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to Georgia Democrats. Trump’s incessant whining about nonexistent 2020 election fraud helped depress GOP turnout in the January Senate runoffs and create...
View ArticleNew trial ordered for a Black man whose all-white jury met in a room adorned...
Tennessee, of all places, appears to have acknowledged what Black and brown folks have long seen clearly: the Confederate flag is nothing more than a pure symbol of racism.Fast forward to last Friday,...
View ArticleCharles M. Blow warns `We're edging closer to civil war' as a result of...
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow didn’t mince any words when he wrote about the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain on the books while giving abortion...
View ArticleGeorgia GOP lawmakers urged Perdue to avoid divisive primary against Kemp. It...
Georgia Republicans are already bracing for what they expect to be one of the state’s most bitter intra-party battles in modern memory. Two of their own—both generally well-liked and regarded—will...
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Retired U.S. Generals call for 'tactical actions' to avoid a repeat of Jan...
—Given that “more than 1 in 10 of those charged in the Capitol Attack had a service record”— these US Generals just might have a point …Retired US army generals warn of insurrection or civil war in...
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Manifest Destiny’s Child: How A Historical Theory Sanctioned Today's False...
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”O say, fellow American, can you honestly say that the United States of America is the land of the free?I once thought that proclamation was true. I grew up...
View ArticleIn the year since Jan. 6, America’s radical right has hardened into an...
With the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection upon us, researchers and experts in monitoring right-wing extremism have been busy compiling and analyzing the data and other information...
View ArticleFacebook may face consequences for providing violent ‘Boogalo’ movement with...
The far-right “Boogaloo” civil-war movement—whose devotees comprised a significant portion of the so-called “Patriots” who besieged the Capitol last Jan. 6—may have largely faded from public view over...
View ArticleHow Did America Come to This?
A generation ago – when the first Bush was President – no one would have believed that the American political system would have deteriorated into its present condition. We’d all have assumed that we’d...
View ArticleTrump Supporters: Deceivers and the Deceived
The vast majority of Trump supporters fall into one of two categories, Deceivers and the Deceived. There is a third, very tiny subset, some of the very wealthy, who support Trump for their own...
View ArticleIs the Unthinkable Inevitable?
Not so very long ago it was unthinkable that a United States president would call his supporters to the capital to disrupt the certification of the president-elect and initiated an insurrection. But it...
View ArticleCan a Teenage Boy Save America from Trumptocracy?
Can a teenage boy and his friends save America from Trumptocracy? That’s the central question addressed in a controversial new dystopian novel series for young adults that, according to its author,...
View ArticleUPDATED: Future President Sinema has a plan. Here it is
Okay, Kyrsten Sinema has made it clear she will never under any circumstances do anything to eliminate the filibuster, even if it means things she claims to support will never pass the Senate. Why she...
View ArticleDouble, double, toil and trouble
I have not posted here in some time. I have been waiting for the fog to lift, for something to happen to break the spell. That spell has a third of us blindly following the tin-god wannabe dictator...
View ArticleIf we are to lose our Democracy, what should we try next?
I keep reading stories that warn that we are losing our Democracy. That the experts that know history, know social trends, and know how governments fall are all warning that this county is in peril and...
View ArticleMachiavellian Politics and Obstruction in Washington – an American Dilemma
During the 2016 presidential campaign, one of Donald Trump’s catchy slogans was drain the swamp. This slogan was his allusion to the political corruption that existed in Washington. Draining the...
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Biden's Historic Mistake?
Trumpism may have popular support but it does not have majority support. However, the struggle to preserve democratic government can no longer be preserved strictly via Constitutional means. Our...
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