Losing the Working Class

On a recent Real Time with Bill Maher, guest Batya Ungar-Sargon commented how the Democrats have lost the working class. Democrat Tim Ryan retorted how much the Biden has done for the working class with his spending programs and how Biden was the most pro union...

Atlantic Journalistic Malpractice

From Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept;  Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite: But journalism is not supposed to be grounded in whether something is “believable” or “seems like it could be true.” Its core purpose, the only thing that...

Kavanaugh’s Revenge

Maximilian Robespierre rationalized the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution as “nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of...

Impeachment Afterthoughts

I generally ignore political Facebook memes. If a ‘friend’ drowns me in political nonsense, I just ‘unfriend’ them, but I do make an exception for a few real friends and a few family members.  One such meme has Donald Trump’s mother saying her son is an idiot and...

Thoughts on Impeachment

Whatever merits of the case are buried in partisanship.  What handicaps the case is a lack of credibility from the Democrats’ previous fiascos. The mob outrage from the ‘resistance’ immediately after the election; marching with vagina suits; predicting a racist...