Archive for April 2018
Trump WAS in Moscow!
Trump has been saying that he didn’t stay overnight in Moscow in 2013, which was during the Miss Universe pageant. That’s important because it relates to the infamous reports of a “pee tape,” and/or other less than savory activities in which he may have engaged with Russian sex workers during that time. But, Bloomberg’s “Bloomberg…
Read MoreSpotlight: Tom Prigg for Penn
By @BossBird17 Part III: He Blinded Me with Science and Policy There are moments, especially, when I’m feeling snarky when I question the intelligence and introspective level of many politicians. Thus, I ponder the intelligence of Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who believes that the Earth was literally…
Read MorePoor “Conservatives”
William B. Turner Sarah Hickabee Sanders allegedly stated today that Democrats have to decide if they love the U.S. more than they hate Trump. Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas reportedly accused Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of “shameful political behavior.” Life is hard for “conservatives” in the United States. Anyone who chooses…
Read MoreWho Cares if Cohen Flips?
William B. Turner Since the FBI raided the office, home, and hotel room of Michael Cohen, the Donald’s personal lawyer, recently, everyone has been aflutter over whether he will flip on the president. That is, will he cooperate with the prosecution in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence for whatever crimes he has committed?…
Read MoreAll Things are Possible Through Jesus
William B. Turner The Christians are absolutely right. Christianity exercises nothing like the hold on U.S. culture it used to, even as recently as the end of World War II. Praise Jesus. We can discern this development easily from the puzzlement so many people are expressing at the consistent support among Christians for the Donald.…
Read MoreFacebook Isn’t The Problem. Congress is.
Congress has recently grilled Facebook’s Marc Zukerberg and Facebook itself has come in for a lot of (well-deserved) abuse in recent weeks. But is Facebook really the problem? Ms. Zeynep Tufekci, a cyber-security expert and commentator, rather suspects not. The real problem, she suggests, is Congress, which has had the power to regulate social media,…
Read MoreOf Course Christians Support Trump. He’s Theirs.
William B. Turner Oh, lawd, another of these tedious stories about how puzzling it is that “evangelicals” still support the Donald. Um, looked at the history of Christianity lately? This is so tiresome. People who want to evaluate a person’s conduct for conformity to Christianity always whip out their bibles. This is pointless. The bible…
Read MoreThe Death Knell of White Supremacy
William B. Turner Of course there will be some significant rump of people who have their ideological blinders on so firmly that they will hold onto their racism, but the Donald, apparent savior of white people, may well kill off “white supremacy” in the United States. At least we can hope. We saw some evidence…
Read MoreThe Death Of Libertarianism?
By Michael Jay Tucker There’s an interesting article over in The Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria, The Reagan revolution is officially over. In it, Zakaria analyzes the departure of Paul Ryan and concludes that “the exit of the Wisconsin Republican … symbolizes a broad shift that has taken place within the party. It marks the…
Read MoreThe DCCC Screws Up Again
By Michael Jay Tucker What is wrong with the Democratic Party? Or, rather, what’s wrong with its elites? Why don’t they get it? Why do they keep screwing up? Case in point, the Party, and particularly the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), has repeatedly backed state and local candidates who don’t have the support of…
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