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EARTH DAY: The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 72 Comments • 6 years ago

The Trump administration is, it goes without saying, deeply anti-science. In fact, it’s anti-objective reality. But its control of the government remains limited; it didn’t extend far...

What if the New York Times Cartoon had depicted a Muslim, a Lesbian, an African American or a Mexican as a Dog?

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

What if the New York Times Cartoon had depicted a Muslim, a Lesbian, an African American or a Mexican as a Dog? by Alan M. Dershowitz , Gatestone Institute, April 29, 2019 For years...

Forget Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 127 Comments • 6 years ago

As Democrats privately admit to themselves that there was no Russian collusion, they’ve also shifted gears to focus on the question of obstruction of justice. Despite the Mueller investigation...

Why Is The President Of The United States Spreading Conspiracy Theories ?

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 59 Comments • 6 years ago

There is a blogger named Larry Johnson. I first read of him in 2008 when he was spreading anti-Obama rumors akin to birtherism. After that election I didnt pay any attention to him any more and...

ANTISEMITISM AND THE ALTERED STATE OF THE JEWS - COMMENT

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

ANTISEMITISM AND THE ALTERED STATE OF THE JEWS - COMMENT Historically, universalists – beginning with the Hellenists – as well as nationalists – such as the Nazis – found common ground in...

Opinion : "Mueller Report" will result in new investigations in Congress

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 362 Comments • 6 years ago

Analysts are going through the now released Mueller Report. There is more than enough in there to trigger investigations in Congress. The report specifically states that the prosecutors were...

Has the Recession Been Cancelled?

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • Op/Ed • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

What would we do without experts? As U.S. workers continue to enjoy a vibrant job market, they should spare a thought for laborers in one category of professional services who remain mired in a...

Armpits, White Ghettos and Contempt

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 37 Comments • 6 years ago

“If you live in the Midwest , where else do you want to live besides Chicago? You don’t want to live in Cincinnati or Cleveland or, you know, these armpits of America.” So declared Stephen...

"If I'm Guilty Of Anything, It Is That I am A Great President"

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 6 years ago

President* Trump just concluded remarks as he was getting into his helicopter to go somewhere and lie more about himself and America. His final words to the crowd of reporters was "If I'm...

KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity Negro golfing President

Via: tessylo • Op/Ed • 71 Comments • 6 years ago

U.S. KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity Negro golfing President By SHAUN KING | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | APR 17, 2017 |...

Dog-Walking Now Regarded as Racist

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • Op/Ed • 119 Comments • 6 years ago

To the long list of sinful practices proving that the white man is irredeemably racist, we can now add dog-walking: More insight into the racistness of dog-walking from Matzoh O’Rourke:...

The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party

Via: don-overton • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

The parallels between the Republican Party positions on taxes and climate change are striking. Both are morally appalling and reject the available evidence and expert opinion. The Initiative on...

How Democrats misled the nation about Trump’s tax cuts

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 6 years ago

Say this for Democrats: They can be very effective — at least, when it comes to misleading Americans on taxes. That’s clear from the wide gap between the number of people who got tax cuts last...

The Not-Quite Mueller Report: Trump Is a Whiny Little Bitch Who Wants to Prosecute Hillary Clinton

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

You’ve read all the legal insights you can stomach about the not-quite Mueller Report . You’ve argued with your friends and family and trolls about whether or not we should go ahead with...

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen....and thanks for the memories....from Shona1 and the Land Down Under

By: shona1 • Op/Ed • 25 Comments • 6 years ago

Evening. Not sure if I am even in the right section but anyway...Just wanted to say goodbye to you all as I have just been diagnosed with Myeloma which is a form of cancer...I had back trouble for...

The Great Republican Abdication

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

So all the “fake news” was true. A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Donald Trump in the White House. The Trump campaign was aware of this...

EARTH DAY: The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

O n a Saturday afternoon in early December, inside a soaring auditorium on the campus of Stockholm University, William Nordhaus gave the crowning lecture of his half-century career as an...

When Facts Get In the Way—Blame Trump

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 6 years ago

The most significant take-away from my college education was learning to rely on evidence over opinion, hearsay, and rumor. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion,” said Daniel Patrick Moynihan,...

Opinion: How the far right spread politically convenient lies about the Notre Dame fire

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 56 Comments • 6 years ago

OREGONLIVE.COM › Washington Post Opinion: How the far right spread politically convenient lies about the Notre Dame fire APRIL 16, 2019 Debris are seen inside Notre Dame...

Republicans Hate You

Via: don-overton • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 6 years ago

Although a little old the article says it all about the current GOP Republicans hate you. Even if you don’t think they hate your guts, I have a surprise for you: they do. Go look in the...

Trump isn’t the biggest threat to the Constitution. Democrats are.

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 127 Comments • 6 years ago

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) spoke about looking ahead to the future and "picking up the pieces of reckless policies that are being made right now." (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) Who...

Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander in chief

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 51 Comments • 6 years ago

Every American of voting age should be required to read this article ================================================================= Tom Nichols is a national security professor at the Naval War...

Criminalization of Christianity is on America's horizon

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 58 Comments • 6 years ago

Don't be shocked when many "Christians" cheer the criminalization of Christianity. The number of supposedly Christian individuals whose moral compasses are calibrated to the spirit of the age...

Trump Twitter Tantrum

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

President* Trump tweeted or retweeted over 35 times today. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump Most of it appears to relate to his belief that he has been unfairly treated and the...

Investigation into Trump was well justified.

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 6 years ago

Rudy Giuliani was on with CNN's Jake Tapper this morning. One of his main points of course, is that there was no reason for the FBI or other intelligence agencies to investigate Donald Trump's...

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