TIME TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT-JUSTICE STEVENS WAS RIGHT
Justice John Paul Stevens was a Republican appointed to the Court in 1975 by President Gerald Ford. He served for thirty five years, until 2010. In 2018, eight years after his retirement, the ninety year old moderate wrote an op ed piece in the New York Times calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. […]
LIZ CHENEY, PROFILE IN COURAGE AND INDEPENDENCE DAY HERO
This is what I call a Profile in Courage. A rock-ribbed Republican conservative explains to her constituents what the Constitution really means and vows to always put the Constitution and the country above her party. Any Republican fool can get up in front of a bunch of Trump cultists and repeat the Big Lie, as […]
REPUBLICAN LEADERS NEED TO STOP THE REPLACEMENT THEORY LIE
If there’s anyone who still doesn’t know what it is, “The Great Replacement Theory” is the current iteration of long-standing antisemitic right wing conspiracy lie. Replacement Theory advocates claim that a diabolical group is secretly working to sneak in non-white immigrants to displace white people and take over America. That group, of course, is the […]
WHAT’S NEXT, THE YELLOW STAR? (Dutch Universities Goes Full Nazi)
This is in a country where less than eighty years ago, Jews were identified, forced to wear yellow stars, and thus were easy to round up and deport to concentration camps. Out of 100,000 Dutch Jews, less than 25,000 survived, the highest percentage and total number of Holocaust murder victims in Occupied Western Europe. What […]
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALNACHT
Photo by Stephen Shaiken Today is the 83d anniversary of the horrors of Kristalnacht, when the racist Nazi leader of Germany and his party incited violence and murder against those they considered disloyal and “the other.” The Nazis of course denied responsibility, claiming it was a spontaneous outburst by decent German citizens enraged that […]
JORDAN PETERSON: STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
First he was treated for drug addiction in Serbia and Russia. Then he returned to Canada, and claimed that an all-meat diet cured his depression. He next popped up in Belfast, from where he fled after becoming a witness in the unsolved death of a teenage boy , dead shortly after receiving a private Twitter […]
JORDAN PETERSON: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Photo courtesy of CBS Photo Couresty of The New Republic A BIT OF BACKGROUND When I started this blog, almost four years ago, the idea was to […]