VOICES

LEGISLATIVE WATCH - “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation,” Mr. Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday, “I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there. This is a no.”

THE COUP - The first time many Americans learned that a large pro-Donald Trump protest in Washington was planned for January 6 was 18 days earlier when the 45th president tweeted about it—"Will be wild!"

EXTREME POLITICS - The late Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical in 1996 condemning Western societies for creating and maintaining a “culture of death.”

 POETIC INJUSTICE - ’Twas the night before Christmas

TWO PERCENT FACTOR - Wherever and whenever obscenely rich people existed, they always protected their wealth and the privileges that come with it from the majority of non-wealthy people working for them and around them.

POLITICAL WATCH - I work hard to make ends meet for my family. But as an educator in West Virginia, that’s hard sometimes — especially with child care to pay for.

TRUMPLICANS - I grew up in canoe country, becoming a guide in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness as a young man.

THE EASTSIDER - I would not care about Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) except for the fact that he’s personally basking in the glory of screwing the entire United States as he plays around selling his vote.  Two recent articles explain what he really is, and it ain’t pretty. 

DEFENSE SPENDING - Perennial claims about precision "smart bombs" by the Pentagon and its boosters have been proven false again and again around the world, by the corpses of civilians—dehumanized as "collateral damage"—killed by U.S. weaponry. 

VOICES - Chris Wallace stepped down from the network on December 12.

COMMENTARY - Imagine what would happen if all power, phones, and the internet go down, if roads become impassable. 

UNION MEMBERS - A handful of workers at the Dollar General In the small Connecticut town of Barkhamsted had grown frustrated last September at being poorly treated by a district manager, amid allegations that sexual harassment was ignored.