Five states held a primary Tuesday night, and one held a caucus. These were the last states to vote in this primary/caucus season. Only the District of Columbia is still to vote, and they wi… Read More
"Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment." Those are the words of Republican Speaker of the House Paul Rya… Read More
Bernie Sanders and his supporters have been complaining for months now that the Democratic Party's nominating process was not fair -- that it favored his opponent. But most Democrats disagre… Read More
The gentleman pictured here is my newest hero -- Representative Filemon Vela, Jr. (representing the 34th Distict of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives).Representative Vela is tired o… Read More
Bernie and his supporters may not like it, but the Democratic race is already over. Both NBC News and Bloomberg Politics are reporting that Hillary Clinton has the required 2383 delegates to… Read More
The chart above was made from results of a new YouGov Poll -- done between May 20th and 23rd of a random national sample of 2,000 adults (with less than a 3 point margin of error). It shows… Read More
Once again we have a poll on what the American public thinks of the two major political parties. It is the YouGov Poll done between May 20th and 23rd of a random national sample of 2,000 adu… Read More
The picture above is of Brock Allen Turner. He's a Stanford University student (from a wealthy family) who was caught raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. He was convicted of three… Read More
The Democrats in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico flexed their citizenship muscle by voting in their primary on Sunday (June 5th). That primary was to determine how many of Puerto Rico's de… Read More
(Caricature of Donald Trump is by DonkeyHotey.)One of Donald Trump's favorite lines is that he's going to "make America great again". This of course means there was a time when the United St… Read More
The Virgin Islands held their Democratic caucuses on Saturday (June 4th) -- and the big winner was Hillary Clinton.Clinton got 92% of the vote on St. Croix, and 88% of the vote on St. Thomas… Read More
It looks like the Republican Party has nominated an "outsider" who wasn't truly even a member of their party -- Donald Trump (who is actually campaigning against both major political parties… Read More
The charts are from Media Matters for America. They did a report on how the cable news networks covered the pro and anti-choice debate (abortion) between January 1st of 2015 and March 6th of… Read More
The photo at left (from npr.org) is of a young Muhammad Ali with Malcom X. It was taken soon after Ali had become a muslim -- the religion he professed for the rest of his life.So it is no s… Read More
Muhammad Ali died on Friday in a Phoenix hospital. He was 74 years old. He did "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" in his boxing career -- and was undoubtably the greatest heavywei… Read More
The Labor Department has released its unemployment figures for the month of May -- and on the surface, it looked like good news. That's because the unemployment rate dropped by 0.3% (from 5%… Read More
President Harry Truman once said, "I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."Taking a page from Truman's book, Hillary Clinton just gave Donald Trump a b… Read More
Up until now, the media has been giving Donald Trump a free pass. Most have not called him on his lies or name-calling, and have acted like those were actually fair campaign tactics. They ha… Read More
One-Sided Growth The percentage of women by party in the House and Senate since 1917. %3020100DemocratsRepublicans1920193019401950196019701980199020002015Does not include nonvoting… Read More
On Wednesday, Republican embarrassment Donald Trump launched another vicious attack on the press. He was unhappy because they held his feet to the fire on his promise to deliver almost $6 mi… Read More
The Walk Free Foundation has just released a new report on slavery. They report that every nation has some degree of slavery that exists within it borders, and there are more than 45 million… Read More
(The image above is from the page of the Children's Defense Fund.)No organization is more extreme in its position on guns than the National Rifle Association (NRA). They not only support con… Read More
Fortune magazine sent a presidential survey to the top 500 CEO's in the country. And this may surprise you, but they chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by 58% to 42% -- a 16 point advan… Read More
President Obama spoke in Indiana on Wednesday about the economy, and how to improve it. It was an excellent speech, and I recommend you read the whole thing. But I wanted to just focus on wh… Read More
This chart was made from results of a new Gallup Poll -- done between May 18th and 22nd of a random national sample of 1,530 U.S. adults, with a 3 point margin of error.It shows the favorabl… Read More
The cable news media (and Sanders supporters) have been crowing that the California Democratic primary is very close. But they are only looking at one poll -- the PPIC poll. There have actua… Read More
Bernie Sanders has now admitted that the Democratic presidential nominating process is not rigged. But he still thinks it was unfair. He's not talking about super delegates anymore, since th… Read More
(Photo of Clinton and Sanders is from abc13.com.)There are two weeks left in the primary season for the Democratic Party, and Bernie Sanders is still trying to fool people into believing he… Read More
If you just listened to the cable news networks, you might think the campaign of Hillary Clinton is in trouble. That is just not true. Those networks want you to think that, because a close… Read More
Didn't feel up to blogging today. Was up last night vomiting and running a fever -- and had absolutely no energy today. Slept all day. I will get back to blogging when I feel better Read More
These charts are from a Gallup Poll -- done between May 4th and 8th of a random national sample of 1,025 American adults, with a margin of error of 4 points.It seems that about 73% (nearly t… Read More
The cable news networks are all abuzz with the idea that Donald Trump will steal middle income (union) workers in the Rust Belt away from the Democrats (and Hillary Clinton). But as the top… Read More
Results from the Gallup Poll -- in a survey taken between 2001 and 2016 of a random national sample of 16,754 American adults, with a margin of error of 1 point Read More
The three senators pictured above have been repeatedly mentioned as possible vice-presidential picks for Hillary Clinton. They are Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a… Read More
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Demographic Group% with favorable opinionHillary ClintonDonald TrumpClinton minus Trump(pct. pts.)Non-Hispanic black69%11%58Nonwhite female65%9%56Nonwhite… Read More
[This photo of President Obama in Hiroshima is by Shoji Kajiyama (AP) and from abcnews.go.com.]This is the speech President Obama gave from Hiroshima:Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloud… Read More