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White Supremacist Rep. Steve King Thinks That He Is Just Like Jesus
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“You don’t like Steve King embracing neo-Nazi slogans? Thanks for persecuting him, world.”
Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa told a town hall at Western Iowa Tech Community College that he understood how Jesus Christ felt after King endured the horrors of months of feedback over his comments on white supremacy and nationalism, the Des Moines Register reported. Republican Rep. Steve...
Lawyer Who Represented Nixon Says Trump’s Retaliation Could Land Him In Prison For Ten Years
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Trump’s retaliation against McGahn is a crime”
Jeffress said during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “Well, through his tweets if nothing else, president trump has made it clear that he is furious at a number of people, certainly including Don McGahn, including Michael Cohen, likely including others who provided information to Mr....
The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“The GOP strategy on taxes and climate: reject evidence and expert opinion, lie, and wage culture wars”
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 Global Markets’ panel of economic experts was recently asked about the Republican tax plan. Among the...
ACLU HISTORY: THE SCOPES 'MONKEY TRIAL'
Via: Don Overton • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“In 1968, the Supreme Court, in Epperson v. Arkansas, unanimously declared the Arkansas law an unconstitutional violation of the Establishment...”
In March 1925, the Tennessee state legislature passed a bill that banned the teaching of evolution in all educational institutions throughout the state. The Butler Act set off alarm bells around the country. The ACLU responded immediately with an offer to defend any teacher prosecuted...
Republicans Hate You
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Republicans hate a true representative democracy, writes Drew Magary. And if they hate that, then they hate America. And if they hate America, then...”
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 mirror. You seem nice enough, right? You just want to enjoy your life, get through your day with a minimum...
Tribalism Isn’t Our Democracy’s Main Problem. The Conservative Movement Is.
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Political tribalism is bad. But government by and for the rich is worse.”
A pernicious force was hollowing out American democracy. It had neutered Congress, and lobotomized the electorate. Lawmakers had become incapable of taking action on many of the day’s most pressing issues — and voters incapable of holding their representatives accountable for their incapacity....
Zero Tolerance: Inside the Secretive Network of Immigrant Youth Shelters in Illinois
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Last summer, we learned that dozens of immigrant children and teens separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border had been held in a...”
Last summer, we learned that dozens of immigrant children and teens separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border had been held in a secretive network of shelters in the Chicago area. There were 11 shelters, nine run by the nonprofit Heartland Alliance, in mostly nondescript buildings...
God’s Plan for Mike Pence
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?”
God’s Plan for Mike Pence No man can serve two masters, the Bible teaches, but Mike Pence is giving it his all. It’s a sweltering September afternoon in Anderson, Indiana, and the vice president has returned to his home state to deliver the Good News of the...
Can Congress impeach an Attorney General?
Via: Don Overton • Metafied • 51 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“6 Answers”
Article II of the Constitution grants Congress the power to impeach “the president, the vice president and all civil officers of the United States.” The phrase “civil officers” includes the members of the cabinet (one of whom, Secretary of War William Belknap, was impeached in 1876)....
The ‘civility’ double standard: Here’s why Republicans demand it for Dan Crenshaw — and not Ilhan Omar
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Much has been made of the deep political divisions in the United States and how bitter and angry the country’s political climate has been in the...”
Much has been made of the deep political divisions in the United States and how bitter and angry the country’s political climate has been in the Trump era. One often hears that there needs to be greater “civility” in political discourse. But New York Magazine’s Zak Cheney-Rice, in an April 17...