GA Man: Potential "Civil War" If Hillary Wins
I just came across this article from RawStory in my Facebook news feed and felt it was important enough to share. This is because, while this is just one family, we really have no idea how many others...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump about to declare war on the Republican Party?
As everyone knows, Donald Trump cannot take any slight or any insult without lashing out. And given that somewhere north of 50 Republicans spent their Saturday denouncing Trump, rescinding endorsements...
View ArticleWhy "The Birth of a Nation" is such a powerful title.
One of many reasons why the title of "The Birth of a Nation" is such an important title for Nate Parker's newest movie about Nate Turner and the rebellion against the “Barbados Slave Code of 1661”, is...
View ArticleLeadership you can count on: Republican National Committee goes dark as party...
This is what real leadership looks like, folks. Some of your people are jumping ship, some are lowering the life boats, and some are waiting for a decisive call from the top. And yes, anyone who's...
View ArticleAn American president once put a political opponent in jail for making an...
Many of us were shocked when Donald Trump threatened/suggested Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted and imprisoned if he had control of the Justice Department. Here’s a typical response:xWorst possible...
View ArticleWow I did not know this - The stab in the back myth
A line in this Guardian article really caught my attention. While discussing the oft repeated comparisons between the fall of the German Reich and the flailing Trump campaign, writers David Smith and...
View ArticleWe're Being Set Up!
Virtually since he became President of Russia in 2000, the thing Vladimir Putin has feared most has been a “color revolution.” Rightly or wrongly, Putin blames the United States for the color...
View ArticleWill the GOP even exist after 2016?
The GOP is falling apart before our very eyes—that much is clear. The gaping chasm between the elite/establishment wing of the party and the white working-class voters in the South who have...
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Nat Turner's Rebellion: 185 years later
One of the most highly anticipated films of 2016, The Birth of a Nation, hit theaters nationwide on October 7, and it couldn’t have come at a more relevant time. With uprisings against police...
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Perpetual Killing Field
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As you read Nick Turse’s stunning report on his...
View ArticleAre we due for America's second civil war?
What exactly does Trump have in mind by refusing to say he will accept the will of the voters? Does he mean that he will continue to stoke the fires of anger and rebelliousness in this country, and to...
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The Daily Bucket: Autumn Diary- Some historical cemeteries in this area of NY...
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View ArticleThe Battle Cry of Freedom
With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty yearsAnd a house divided against itself cannot stand. Here’s a little martial music to...
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Election 2016: Are We Headed for a Second Civil War? Or, Did the First Civil...
According to American history books, the American Civil War, 1861-1865, resolved fundamental questions of the central authority of the Federal government versus a looser confederation of sovereign...
View ArticleHey Racists: Who won the last Civil War?
And I don’t know whether to use ridicule or condemnation to respond to the frothy-mouthed idjits who keep talking it up:As part of a Facebook series called “The Messy Truth,” political commentator and...
View ArticleOur Nation is Heading for a low level Civil War...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:I posted the following comment early this morning at the New York Times, in response to their editorial entitled “A Coup Against the Supreme Court.” Here at...
View ArticleThe Civil War is coming, to the Dems...
There was a lot of talk about a GOP civil war brought about by the schism caused by Trump’s candidacy.That war appears to have been cancelled.Instead it looks as though the civil war will happen in the...
View ArticleCan a state (specifically California) legally secede from the union?
I (somewhat) jokingly commented in another diary about physically separating California and the rest of the Democratic west coast via that major earthquake we are continually expecting.I've been...
View ArticleWhere the F#$K is Hillary?
Hillary needs to stand the fuck up and tell her people to stand the fuck down. Seriously.We are a nation of laws and we are a nation guided by the constitution. NOT JUST WHEN IT IS CONVENIENT.Being...
View ArticleWe hold these truths to be self-evident...
The appointment of a known neo nazi white supremacist as a key strategist to a seat of power in the United States of America is a direct insult and affront to the honor, dignity and sacrifice of...
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