40 Reasons the GOP is a Clear and Present Danger to US Democracy
GUEST COMMENTARY - "Trump and his allies are a clear and present danger to American democracy."—the Honorable J. Michael Luttig
GUEST COMMENTARY - "Trump and his allies are a clear and present danger to American democracy."—the Honorable J. Michael Luttig
JAN 6 COMMITTEE - When was the last time a bad word wasn’t bleeped out on a national broadcast?
SCOTUS - On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court's history.
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Whether one is a Dem or a GOP, the great thing about group rights is that it is always someone else’s fault.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Weep for the women whose rights have been stripped away. Grieve for the movement towards a more equitable society cut off at the knees.
GUEST COMMENTARY - Roe v. Wade was just overturned, which marks an overplayed fear among the left side of the political spectrum, ironically during a Democratic Biden administration.
SCOTUS & NRA - The National Rifle Association's decades-long campaign against even the most basic and popular firearm regulations scored another victory Thursday when the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key New York state gun control law, a ruling that could spell doom for similar statutes across the country.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Pain at the pump is national and international news and there are all sorts of solutions circulating the real world and the metaverse.
GUEST COMMENTARY - Call it, for lack of a better phrase, the “Gas Price Derangement Syndrome.”
JAN 6 COMMITTEE - The bipartisan congressional commission investigating the January 6 coup attempt has found strong evidence that Donald Trump is a criminal.
GUEST COMMENTARY - The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians.
THE DOCTOR IS IN - President Joe Biden, it might be argued, was elected for one reason and one reason only: his name was NOT Donald Trump.
HE VIEW FROM HERE - At the conclusion of the Tuesday, June 20, 2022 January 6th Committee’s presentation, Co-chairperson Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to testify live before the cameras.
GUEST COMMENTARY - It is shameful and unconscionable that this country has allowed gun violence to become the leading cause of death among children in the United States – but that is the reality.
GUN CONTROL - Ready, aim, fire: "I believe in Jesus, guns and babies." So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.
RUSSIAN WAR - The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days.
LABOR WATCH - America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans.
GUEST COMMENTARY - “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…”
HIGHER WAGES - Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."
THE VIEW FROM HERE - After Ben Franklin answered the question what form of government the Constitutional Convention had created, the questioner did not ask, “Why a republic?”
GUEST COMMENTARY - It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented.
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