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Who Is More Qualified To Be President, Kanye West Or Donald Trump?

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 4 years ago

Who Is More Qualified To Be President, Kanye West Or Donald Trump? As John Wayne says in Rio Bravo when asked to compare the gunfighting skills of the Dean Martin character Dude to the...

Is Tammy Duckworth qualified to be president?

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 148 Comments • 4 years ago

Illinois junior U.S. senator, Tammy Duckworth , is apparently under consideration for the vice presidential nomination with Joe Biden. I was listening to the NYT podcast The Argument and...

The National Humiliation We Need

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 4 years ago

July 4 and America’s crisis of the spirit. We Americans enter the July 4 weekend of 2020 humiliated as almost never before. We had one collective project this year and that was to crush Covid-19,...

Why is there a hostility towards science?

By: gordy327 • Op/Ed • 396 Comments • 4 years ago

One thing the Covid crisis has shown us is the apparent hostility the general populace has towards science. This is (a simplification) demonstrated by people refusing to social distance or wear...

Something to think about

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 54 Comments • 4 years ago

Trump’s Re-election Message Is White Grievance

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 4 years ago

Republicans in D.C. just pretend not to see it. A lot of Republicans are acting puzzled about Donald Trump’s re-election pitch. “He has no message,” one Republican source told Reuters. “He needs...

Trump’s only campaign promise is to make bigotry safe again

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 19 Comments • 4 years ago

Trump’s only campaign promise is to make bigotry safe again JUNE 29, 2020 “White power!” shouted the elderly man, raising his fist as he drove his golf cart past a group of demonstrators...

If Americans Grappled Honestly With Their History, Would Any Monuments Be Left Standing?

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • 4 years ago

Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Speech and the Cult of Trump - BillMoyers.com

Via: thomas • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 4 years ago

An interesting take on the Rally last weekend. If you would rather listen to the interview, go here

Which One Did God choose ?

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • 4 years ago

I would like to see someone ask Kayleigh McAnany this question at her next press briefing - Ms McAnany, you have said that God chose Donald Trump to lead America, but Al Sharpton told George...

George Floyd and the dominoes of social injustice

Via: thomas • Op/Ed • 49 Comments • 4 years ago

A credible and astute argument regarding the social contract and the differences of the same between Black and White people.

We are in the retreat-from-Moscow phase of the Trump presidency

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 26 Comments • 4 years ago

we are in the retreat-from-Moscow phase of the Trump presidency https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/opinion/sunday/trump-presidency.html We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase...

Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In - The New York Times

Via: thomas • Op/Ed • 25 Comments • 4 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html?searchResultPosition=1

Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 66 Comments • 4 years ago

Trump Gives Speech About Civil Rights Issues - Nations Fact Checkers Called In For Extra Shifts

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 4 years ago

Nations Fact Checkers Report For Emergency Duty To Check Trump's Speech On Racial Issues President* Trump gave a speech on police and racial issues a few minutes ago. The nation's fact...

Taxation and Unemployment

By: yourlordandsavior • Op/Ed • 37 Comments • 4 years ago

Often, when people toss the people won't work thing around, it's because they also think when you pay "taxes," it's a gift, except when they want something specific, in which case it's "my tax...

A Speech to the Nation on Race and Unity. Can Trump Pull it off?

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 13 Comments • 4 years ago

UPDATE: The American Urban Network is reporting that senior advisor Stephen Miller, the architect of the nation’s most extreme and brutal immigration policies, including the Muslim ban and...

Questions for those who like to think...

By: thomas • Op/Ed • 151 Comments • 4 years ago

(Here is my second attempt because I accidentally closed the window trying to put a picture in after typing for an hour... So it probably won't be anything like I had it originally.) Several...

Millennial George Floyd Protesters Prove The Times They Are A Changin

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 25 Comments • 4 years ago

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin' Will soon...

Mitt Romney : Black Lives Matter

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 55 Comments • 4 years ago

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney. His private equity (vulture capital) firm Bain Capital, ruined thousands of lives by "creatively destructing " companies and causing thousands of people to lose...

George Will : No one should want four more years of this taste of ashes

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 80 Comments • 4 years ago

The Wheels Are Coming Off The Trump Train

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 4 years ago

News item - Covid nurses cheer George Floyd protesters News Item - religious leaders have condemned the administration's treatment of Americans protesting the death of George Floyd...

People pushed to the edge

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 50 Comments • 4 years ago

What was your first reaction when you saw the video of the white cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck while Floyd croaked, "I can't breathe"? If you're white, you probably muttered a horrified, "Oh,...

Biden, Trump and the uneven politics of outrage

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 25 Comments • 4 years ago

A closer Look.... with Kids

Via: thomas • Op/Ed • 92 Comments • 4 years ago

Here you Go!

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