Establishment Democrats love to blame third party voters for Clinton losing, but The New York Times recently had data…
Posted by Ron Chusid on Monday, May 20, 2019
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What Mueller did not say today:1) When he said Russia interfered in the election, he left out the important…
Posted by Ron Chusid on Wednesday, May 29, 2019
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I will be glad when we stop hearing Russiagate conspiracy theorists say “wait for Mueller to finish.” What will they say if he finishes and still has provided zero evidence to s… Read More
Related, from The Atlantic: It’s Foreign Policy That Distinguishes Bernie This Time Read More
The full segment from The View can be seen here: Read More
Regardless of whether she should have faced charges, she should not have been a major party candidate for president Read More
Kamala Harris’s history on asset forfeiture. From The Wall Street Journal:
As California attorney general, Kamala Harris opposed a 2011 law restraining the practice of civil asset for… Read More
Besides donating to Bernie, don’t forget to also donate to Tulsi Gabbard in light of the plans by the Democratic Party to tie participation in the debates to the number of contributor… Read More
Between PAYGO, and all the money spent on foreign wars, it would not be possible for Medicare for All or any progressive goals to be passed. Only Ro Khanna of California, Al… Read More
The map isn’t even complete, most notably leaving out the Clinton-backed coup in Honduras Read More
While the Democratic establishment has filed suit against Wikileaks (which would have been like Richard Nixon suing The Washington Post during Watergate), Gabbard has defended Wikileaks. Sh… Read More
Just part of a response to Clinton supporters who think that voting for Clinton was what progressives should have done in 2016, and do not understand that Democratic McCarthyism is at least… Read More
I also wished for no Bushes or Clintons in 2016. I should have been more specific Read More
(Correction to the quoted article above: Gabbard was a medic in the Hawaii National Guard, not the Coast Guard.) Read More
More on the debate criteria here Read More
The pro-war network’s propaganda machine using McCarthyism to go after anti-war candidate Read More
This also doesn’t help Maddow’s credibility (via Glenn Greenwald):
“What’s there even left to say? Russia is coming to shut off your heat in winter and make you rea… Read More
The interventionist foreign policy establishment hates Gabbard because of her views. The Democratic Party establishment also hate her for standing up to them for rigging the 2016 nomination… Read More
The blog has been far less active the last several months. This has largely been due to the effects of social media on the blogosphere. Social media has made blogs near obsolete, and has cut… Read More
Kamala Harris has already backtracked on her support for Medicare for All, making it hard to have confidence she will fight for such a plan should she be elected.
Wendell Potter recently wa… Read More
Star Trek: Discovery returned last week, following a final Short Trek staring Rainn Wilson reprising his role as Harry Mudd. Brother was more in line with traditional Star Trek compare… Read More
Resolution gave Doctor Who the episode it needed for a proper season finale. By this I don’t mean any cliff hangers, or big changes such as companions leaving or a regeneration. Just… Read More
Timeless ended too soon, but at least in the streaming television age it now exists as a more complete story which will remain available, and possibly lead to yet another revival. The final… Read More
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos was rather weak as a season finale of Doctor Who, but at least they get a second chance on New Year’s Day with an episode widely assumed to involve the… Read More
It Takes You Away provided three stories in one episode of Doctor Who. Unfortunately this meant that none of them were fully developed.
The episode started out looking like a “cabin i… Read More
This season of Doctor Who will not be remembered for its any big episodes, but the show is getting on track. Chris Chibnall has stayed away from the big, outlandish ideas of past seasons, t… Read More
We now have three more episodes of Doctor Who since my last full review, and I am now feeling more optimistic about the series under Chris Chibnall. The first of these three however, The Ts… Read More
Since the last full post, we have had two additional episodes of Doctor Who. If Steven Moffat tried to throw out too many big ideas, Chris Chibnall throws out a whole lot of small ideas in… Read More
If the White House Press Corps had any balls, they’d all stop showing up for the orchestrated press briefings in response to a threat like this and resort to real reporting to cover T… Read More
The midterms were a mixed success for the Democrats in 2018. Most notably the Democrats took control of the House, but unfortunately this probably means Nancy Peolsi returns as Speaker. The… Read More
Arachnids in the UK provided both a horror story before Halloween and political satire just over a week before the midterm elections in the United States. These two components were not enti… Read More
Keeping up with the false statements, repugnant statements, and acts of corruption from Donald Trump in nearly two years of his presidency has become an impossible task for a small blog. Wh… Read More
The New York Times today asks, Where Are The Russians? In other words, they have bought the sensationalized and highly exaggerated media accounts of Russia’s impact on the 2016 e… Read More
As if we didn’t have enough terrible events in the past week, yet another scare before this Halloween is the prospect that Hillary Clinton might run for president again. The last Clin… Read More
I will avoid spoilers for today’s episode of Doctor Who, Arachnids In The UK, as it has not yet been seen by those in the United States who wait to view it legally. The episode… Read More
We continue to learn more about the upcoming season of Star Trek: Discovery, including receiving information on Spock and Christopher Pike when executive producers Alex Kurtzman and He… Read More
As I wrote in my review of The Woman Who Fell To Earth last week, Jodie Whittaker is doing an excellent job of portraying a newly regenerated Time Lord, still a bit confused about her role… Read More
After months of anticipation, Doctor Who premiered today in an international simulcast. Jodie Whittaker totally nailed the role as The Doctor, showing that glass ceilings can be broken… Read More
A new clip from the season premiere of Doctor Who has been released in which the Doctor (now played by Jodie Whittaker) finds that she is a woman and no longer the white haired Scotsman she… Read More
Doctor Who returns on October 7, and another trailer (video above) has been released. We will have a new Doctor and new companions. However, the new showrunner, Chris Chibnall, says we will… Read More
Homecoming looks like it should be one of the more interesting genre television shows of the fall season, premiering on Amazon Prime on November 2, with the first four episodes shown recent… Read More
We finally have an announcement of a return date for Doctor Who, Sunday, October 7. I don’t know about viewing habits in the UK, but the change to Sunday could help ratings here in th… Read More
The Democratic Party establishment has desired to nominate more moderate candidates, even in safe Democratic areas where they could not use their questionable arguments that more moderate c… Read More
Deadline reports that Star Trek will be awarded a Governor’s Award on September 8 during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in recognition of, “the visionary science-fiction te… Read More
Much has been written accurately demonstrating the authoritarian tendencies of Donald Trump, but a consequence of our two-party system is that far too many people ignore a similar lack of r… Read More
It is another slow week with only one new science fiction show airing which I’m watching (Killjoys). While fun to watch, I don’t find that a show worth reviewing episode by epis… Read More
The Democratic National Committee met in Chicago, with the most controversial matter being a vote to reduce the power of superdelegates. Rather than approving a weak compromise measure whic… Read More
Democrats have often claimed to be the reality based community, citing many false beliefs held by Republicans. For example, a poll as recent as 2015 showed that half of Republicans still be… Read More
Censorship on social media has been an ongoing problem involving people on both the left and the right, but the recent banning of Alex Jones has increased attention to the issue. While many… Read More
For a while the producers of Star Trek: Discovery teased us by not telling us whether we would only see a younger version of Spock in flashbacks in season two versus an adult Spock. Once th… Read More
A political party which uses superdelegates should not be able to use Democratic in its name. This week we will see if the Democratic Party continues to oppose democracy as the DNC votes on… Read More
