Elayne Clift at Salon just penned an article titled How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than…
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The Public Thirst For Outrage
Media carries a lot of blame for the current state of social, legal and political turmoil in America. At least…
Stephen Collinson, Trump’s Inside Man at CNN
Seldom do I write two columns on the same theme, but CNN has offered up consecutive pieces by Stephen Collinson…
The GOP’s Devotion to Trump Threatens to Destroy American Democracy
That’s the headline on a CNN article by Stephen Collinson and it pushes the Bullshit Needle entirely off the dial.…
Why Conspiracy Theories?
Conspiracy theories are not a big problem for a large majority of Americans and they wonder how this marginal group…
The GOP in Suspended Animation
The latest shot-across-the-bow at the GOP is that instead of Grand Old Party it now means Greed Over Principle. Which…
The Secret Is Out—Big Business Runs America
I’m not exactly sure how much of a secret that was. Since 1980 and the ‘Reagan Era’ both Democrats and…
Justice Served Like a $50 Steak
There aren’t many of us can afford a fifty-dollar steak. But then, faced with big-guy little-guy there aren’t many of…
Impeach a President, But Not Sue Fox News?
(Justin Baragona, Daily Beast, Feb 7, 2021) How Fox News Primetime Jacked Up Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ “The president may be…
The Courage to Quit a Political Base
Democrats once tested that courage when Lyndon Johnson pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Briefly, that act prohibited discrimination…