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2019-09-21 15:37
Mike Huckabee can always be relied on to offer a clever little ‘gotcha’ in reaction to a liberal position he scoffs at. His speech and tweets cackle with self-satisfaction in&nbs&hell…Read More
2019-09-21 15:33
Trump said he would bring the best people into the administration. He lied. Take the odd case of Stephanie Grisham, whose resume boasts two DUIs. She is his putative press secretary. But aft… Read More
2019-09-21 15:33
Jeanine Pirro is Fox News loudest voice. Her hyperventilating paranoia is always dialed to ‘11’. And in her nasal, staccato, New York accent, she spends… Read More
2019-09-21 15:24
Joe Walsh told John Heilemann on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House that he was not a racist although he acknowledged that he had said racist things.
&ld&hell…Read More
2019-08-26 21:03
There is concern spreading from the halls of academia to the barstool language purists that the English language is slipping away and being replaced with unintelligible gibberish for the spo… Read More
2019-08-15 23:56
There are social penalties to being black in America. Increased difficulty in getting a job. Petty insults accrued while swimming, barbequing or selling water. And greater jeopardy in the cr… Read More
2019-08-15 18:26
(This diary is in large part a distillation of a more extensive article published in the Guardian (UK) (8/4/19) ‘Something resembling hell’: how does the rest of the world v… Read More
2019-08-15 18:23
A group of 17 Christan church leaders under the banner of ‘Christians Against Christian Nationalism’ have issued an official statement. It condemns the Christ… Read More
2019-08-06 18:50
Trump-loving, conspiracy theorist, Danielle Stella is challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in Minnesota’s 5th District. Part of her platform is a robust anti-crime stance. Stella&nb&hell…Read More
2019-08-06 03:11
A father takes his family to a Nike store to buy his 18-month-old son his first basketball. They pick it out, pay for it, and leave. The child is ecstatic. Then a manager chases them do… Read More
2019-08-06 02:42
Greg Gutfeld distanced Trump from the chanting fanatics at his North Carolina rally yesterday. Somehow in Gutfeld’s mind, the puppets were independent of the puppet mast… Read More
2019-08-05 21:28
Brittany Zamora is a 28-year-old teacher, who today received a 20-year sentence in Maricopa County (AZ) Superior Court for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. This senten… Read More
2019-08-05 21:19
People raised in mainstream Christianity believe that for one, it’s a good idea not to sin because it can hurt other people — and there are some unpleasant long-term co… Read More
2019-08-05 21:08
Prosecutors of the embattled campaign cash abuser Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) have revealed him to be a cheat. This week they laid out five instances of unfaithful behavior with five diff… Read More
2019-06-28 23:53
During her weekly press conference on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi was asked what Congress should do about E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation against Trump. She replied, “I do… Read More
2019-06-27 19:16
Trump confuses Fox Business host, Maria Bartiromo.
During a telephone interview by Fox Business host, Maria Bartiromo, Trump addressed his concerns that Robert Mueller‘s investigatio… Read More
2019-06-22 00:55
Trump is ready to attack Iran, but then he doesn’t.
Trump is famous for changing his mind. Denying he changed his mind. Claiming he never held a position he did. And lying that he sai… Read More
2019-06-20 19:24
Trump start to 2020
In an event designated as the official start of his 2020 re-election campaign, Trump gave the largely old white crowd usual whining they have come to know by heart. Call… Read More
2019-06-12 03:35
San Francisco swelters in record heat. Where are the science deniers?
Whenever there is a cold snap in winter, science-deniers gleefully ask ‘where’s your global warming now?&rs&hell…Read More
2019-06-12 00:30
A disgruntled employee takes his second amendment rights down to his place of work and massacres 12 people. The reactions are typical, liberals demand action, conservative off… Read More
2019-06-12 00:26
The Trump administration decided to send a message to desperate people trying to seek sanctuary in the US: ‘Come, and we will torture you. We will rip your families apart. We will let… Read More
2019-05-27 23:35
Lindsey Graham served the military honorably on both active duty and the reserve for 33 years. He was a lawyer and as such never deployed to a war zone. But he has not allowed his… Read More
2019-05-27 19:32
At the beginning of May, Kentucky proposed a ban on tattooing over scars. The state health department made vague references to cleanliness and sanitation. But the suggested rules left Kentuc… Read More
2019-05-27 19:23
On the 700 Club today, Pat Robertson offered his opinion of God’s likely reaction to the passage of the “Equality Act”. As this measure would extend the protectio… Read More
2019-05-04 18:41
Months of protests by the Extinction Rebellion activist group and the opposition Labour Party have born fruit. The British Parliament has officially declared an… Read More
2019-05-04 18:36
Today is Melania Trump’s 49th birthday. And it allowed Franklin Graham to do some first-rate toadying to her adulterous mate. He tweeted:
Happy birthday to @FLOTUS Melania T… Read More
2019-05-04 18:32
Monday evening, Trump was interviewed by Minnesota news network KSTP about his Twitter video juxtaposing Omar’s comments with a graphic video of the 9/11 attacks. When a… Read More
2019-05-04 18:29
Religion’s greatest trick isn’t that it wormed it’s way into the legal code of the US despite constitutional prohibitions, it is that it convinced people it was out of… Read More
2019-03-31 04:15
When Trump nominated Stephen Moore to fill a position on the board of the Federal Reserve he picked his usual caliber of candidate — one lacking in character. The Guard… Read More
2019-03-20 23:34
Kirsten Gillibrand is one of a large – and expanding – field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. In an era of progressive resurgence, she is a retro-style c… Read More
2019-03-14 01:03
A passenger on a cross-country Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Toronto had a hissy fit when he couldn’t have fish. According to a witness the man was belligere… Read More
2019-03-12 19:59
Having rejected a previous Brexit deal, the British Parliament voted today on a ‘tweeked’ version that British PM Theresa May had negotiated with the European Union. Pa… Read More
2019-03-11 01:59
While playing a six-year-old boy in Oregon cut his head on some farm machinery. His parents cleaned and stitched the wound. Six days later his back and neck arched and he… Read More
2019-03-11 01:52
Most atheists were raised in religious families. And they paid attention. The evidence indicates atheists know more than believers about religion. And they are often the most questionin… Read More
2019-02-18 03:01
Lindsey Graham comes out against education.
Margaret Brennan, the host of Face the Nation, asked Sen. Lindsey Graham how he felt about Trump’s declaration of a state of emergency… Read More
2019-02-10 03:13
Last Sunday afternoon in Queens, NY a man was shot dead on a subway platform. A fight between three men and the victim had started on a Manhattan-bound train. As reported by N… Read More
2019-02-10 03:08
The following final published words from America’s longest-serving Congressman were published in the Washington Post. They are a testament to a great America… Read More
2019-02-10 03:05
On Thursday the Supreme Court voted to stay a Louisiana law that would have required abortion clinics in the state to have admitting rights at a hospital within 30 miles. Pro-choic… Read More
2019-01-19 02:42
In a playground tit-for-tat, Trump told Nancy Pelosi that he was canceling her military transport for her ‘excursion’ to Belgium, Egypt, and Afghanistan. In a letter to the Speak… Read More
2019-01-19 02:35
Today Nancy Pelosi told Trump he could shove his State of the Union. Yesterday no Democrats attended Trump’s shutdown lunch summit/photo op. And this follows her sunglassed, James Bond… Read More
2019-01-19 02:08
Trip Gabriel of the New York Times put together a timeline of Rep. Steve King’s bigotry. I have reproduced it here with added comments.
2002
Mr. King, in the Iowa State Sen… Read More
2019-01-19 02:03
On December 2, 2018, Walgreens Security guard Donald Vincent Ciota II, 28, shot Jonathan Hart, 21, dead after a tussle over a $2.99 water drink. Ciota shot Hart in the back of the neck… Read More
2018-12-31 01:05
In St. Charles, Missouri, Richard Darren Emery shot and killed Zoe Kasten, 8; her brother, Jonathan Kasten, 10; their grandmother, Jane Moeckel, 61; and their mother, Eme… Read More
2018-12-31 00:48
In Trump’s monomania about getting his wall funded, he has adopted the narrative strategy of professional wrestling. There are good guys (guess who) and the bad guys. The good gu… Read More
2018-12-27 01:34
Jermaine Massey visited Portland, OR to attend a Travis Scott concert. On returning to his hotel, the Portland DoubleTree, he noticed his mother had called. He was concer… Read More
2018-12-21 02:52
Gen. James Mattis quit as Secretary of Defense. It is no surprise that a man as steeped in military tradition would resign rather than work for a man who formulates his capricious milit… Read More
2018-12-16 04:39
A seven-year-old girl sets out with her father on a journey of 2,000 miles to seek asylum in the US. Conditions in her Guatemalan village were so dire that this dirty, exhausting t… Read More
2018-12-11 02:17
Jerry Falwell Jr. was interviewed Saturday night by Fox News’ Jesse Watters on his eponymous show, ‘ Watters’ World’. Being December, it didn&rsq&hell…Read More
2018-12-11 02:13
Trump did not have a good weekend at the G-20 in Buenos Aires. He appeared befuddled when he wandered off the stage after shaking hands with President Macri of Argentina inste… Read More
2018-11-30 03:20
Donald Trump celebrated his monomania this morning in a text boasting, “Billions of Dollars are pouring into the coffers of the U.S.A.” because of tariffs on the Chinese. Yes, ta… Read More
2018-11-30 02:16
Trump told reporters today we shouldn’t worry about the troops spending Thanksgiving at the border because they are “tough people”. I’m sure they… Read More
2018-11-30 01:56
The Symphony of the Seas is the world’s largest cruise ship. It is 1,188 ft long, 215 wide and has a gross tonnage of 228,081. It can carry almost 9,000 passengers and c… Read More
2018-11-16 02:47
It’s not just Russian interference in our democratic process, state politicians have done a masterful job of gerrymandering and voter suppression. Take Kansas. In the histori… Read More
2018-11-16 02:43
Ann Coulter is a conservative, and she is a liar — but I repeat myself. However, she is a sophisticated liar. Unlike Trump, who says whatever he wants, safe in the knowledge his… Read More
2018-11-04 02:13
Conservatives love to be scared. And Trump loves to scare them. Rational Americans look at a caravan of desperate, hungry, thirsty, dirty vagabonds and see a people yearning to be free. But… Read More
2018-11-04 01:19
The massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue is just the most violent, recent expression of anti-Semitism in the US. The gunman may have acted alone, but he had many accomplices. The seve… Read More
2018-10-28 00:50
The conservative echo chamber resonates with claims made about what liberals believe and stand for. As you might expect, there is no factual basis for what they say. Let’s analyze thei… Read More
2018-10-22 00:25
Which came first, whining or conservatism? Trump complained that the election was fixed before he won. And then when he did win, he complained that millions of illegal votes were c… Read More
2018-10-22 00:19
In West Virginia, Parkersburg City Councilman, Eric Barber, celebrated the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by posting a ‘celebratory’ message… Read More
2018-10-22 00:15
I believe that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was held down as a 15-year-old by a drunken 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh while his friend, Mark Judge, watched sniggering. I say this because I w… Read More
2018-10-22 00:11
Today, Taylor Michael Wilson, a 26-year-old neo-nazi terrorist, was sentenced to 14 years for hijacking an Amtrak train in Nebraska. Shortly after his arrest, he volunteered that h… Read More
2018-10-21 23:37
There is no area of American life where white men are not entirely in charge — executive suites, politics, professional sports, religion, the media, and the judiciary. And yet to… Read More
2018-10-21 23:28
Let’s play the dictator game. Trump‘s authoritarian tendencies have invited comparisons to autocrats across the centuries. So let’s ask which of these men — and… Read More
2018-09-25 01:42
Rocked by a second accusation of sexual assault, Brett Kavanaugh wrote a stern letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to protest his innocence. This letter reveals a lot abo… Read More
2018-09-23 22:45
Donald Trump presented evangelicals with a superficial dilemma. He could deliver their dream of a conservative Supreme Court for decades, but the cost of this was supporting a man who… Read More
2018-09-12 22:43
It’s hard to define exactly what intelligence is. There are many stories of people with high IQs that have made a mess of their lives. Take Ted Kaczynski — the Unabomber. Hi… Read More
2018-09-08 23:17
Southerners have traditionally valued honor and courage as inestimable virtues — crucial to their ideal of manhood, So you have to wonder why so many southern politicians have act… Read More
2018-09-04 00:46
Do you know the difference between a million and a billion? Can you envision it? Not sure? Then picture this. Imagine you were given a dollar every second. After an hour you w… Read More
2018-08-23 02:07
Left-wing conspiracy theorists will view the announcement that Mollie Tibbetts’ killer was an ‘illegal alien’ with deep suspicion. Coming on the day when two of T… Read More
2018-08-15 23:55
The chart above tracks the growth of the average hourly wage of the American worker. It seems to show an overall steady and solid increase. But it is an optical illusion. The scale on t… Read More
2018-08-13 02:46
Donald Trump promised to hire the best people. Then his National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, was gone after just 24 days on the job — done in by his pillow talk with the Russians… Read More
2018-08-06 20:38
Donald Trump Jr. claims that the platform of the 1930s Nazi party closely aligns with the Democratic platform today. At the premiere of Dinesh D’Sousa’s… Read More
2018-08-06 20:27
Ivanka Trump — the would-be conscience of the Trump family — is appalled at the treatment of immigrant families. In an Axios forum she said the following:
“That… Read More
2018-07-30 21:52
It is widely known that today’s Congress has the same approval rating as herpes. In truth, politicians have never ranked high in anyone’s estimation. Why?
To understand… Read More
2018-07-30 21:46
While Donald Trump’s approval rating hovers around the low 40% for ‘all voters’ — the lowest ever for a president at this point in his first term &nd… Read More
2018-07-26 01:09
A new Quinnipiac poll reveals that Americans are currently 12 percentage points more likely to vote for a Democrat (51%) in their congressional district than a Republican… Read More
2018-07-24 01:34
In an interview with Margaret Brennan on ‘Face the Nation’ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that Trump’s mental faculties may be diminished.
“I thi… Read More
2018-07-19 02:29
Democratic Party leadership is terrified that impeachment talk will galvanize the Republican base in the November elections. A wave of young liberals — epitomized… Read More
2018-07-17 00:24
Predictably Liberals were not impressed with Trump’s obsequious attitude to Putin in Helsinki. But many conservatives were equally, if not more scathing, in their assessment… Read More
2018-07-15 23:35
The Indian River County school district in Florida changed its dress code. Here are the new guidelines:
“Almost all words and graphics on clothing and accessories, aside from… Read More
2018-07-02 01:48
Mike Huckabee and other missionaries peddle that ‘real Americans’ only live in ‘flyover country’. In their imagining, these denizens of middle America are honest… Read More
2018-06-26 01:46
The Republican Party of Virginia is incensed that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had been booted from the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington Virginia. They made their feelings known today on… Read More
People Who Discriminate Against Gays Are Hypocrites To Criticize People Who Won’t Serve Homophobes
2018-06-24 03:06
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. And conservatives reacted as if Sanders had been boiled in oil by marauding MS-13 gang membe… Read More
2018-06-13 20:48
Donald Trump tweeted today that America no longer has to worry about nuclear conflict with North Korea because Kim Jong-un has promised to behave. As he tweeted:
“Just landed &nd&hell…Read More
2018-06-05 01:51
The scandals of the Catholic Church are well known. To this day the church is still acceding to multi-million dollar settlements — the latest is a $210 million agr… Read More
2018-05-27 20:05
The arrest of Harvey Weinstein does not signal the end of the women’s civil rights movement. Nor did the Irish voting, overwhelmingly, for abortion freedoms. Differences betw… Read More
2018-05-27 19:56
The gun zealot lobby has pointed the finger at everything except guns as a reason for school shootings. Their claims, of course, make no sense to a rational person. But they are conve… Read More
2018-05-17 22:50
Aaron Schlossberg became an overnight internet star when a video of his unhinged rant at two women speaking Spanish went viral. This 42-year-old Manhattan lawyer was irate that people in Ame… Read More
2018-05-17 02:47
The transcript of Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony to the Senate was released today. And we learned that Junior has the memory of a goldfish. There is no event significant enough that… Read More
2018-05-15 22:23
Pastor Robert Jeffress is a prominent evangelical. He was on hand to lead prayers at the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. His presence illustrates an intrinsic and cal… Read More
2018-05-10 22:19
Sex, sexuality and gender identity are all matters of supreme interest and intense fear. How much of the fear is learned behavior, and how much is innate, a more knowledgeable mind than… Read More
2018-05-03 14:50
Donald Trump has threatened to intervene in the Justice Department. He has heard the cries of congressional conservatives bleating that the DoJ has dragged its feet handing over do… Read More
2018-04-28 01:08
There will be no end to corporate crime unless CEOs, CFOs and COOs start going to jail. The crash of 2007 revealed all kinds of shady, unscrupulous financial industry practices. Banks p… Read More
2018-04-28 01:01
Kevin Williamson was hired by The Atlantic to provide conservative commentary. He was fired a few days later when an old tweet and podcast revealed he thought women should be hanged for… Read More
2018-04-16 01:42
Nikki Haley warned Chris Wallace on Fox News that if we aren’t careful, there will be a chemical weapons attack in America.
“This very easily could happen in the U… Read More
2018-04-16 01:20
When Michael Bloomberg was Mayor of New York, the city unions asked for a pay raise. He said they deserved it, he wanted to do it, but they had to work with him to figure out where the money… Read More
2018-04-10 22:48
Melania Trump is a strikingly beautiful woman — which shines through even as she makes some questionable make-up choices. I saw it first hand when I met her as she and Donald were… Read More
2018-04-05 14:28
Conservatives sneer at high-tax, blue states while they continue to slash their budgets back home. But the real measure of economic vitality is take-home pay — and there the… Read More
2018-04-01 17:18
Donald Trump does not like Amazon. Or more precisely, he doesn’t like Jeff Bezos. And this animus has been going on a while. Back in 2015, Trump tweeted that Amazon was a ‘n… Read More
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