Florida woman tells black deputy her KKK friends will 'burn your a**'

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  1 Comments  •  5 years ago

“VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - A Florida woman who was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving told the black deputy who detained her that the Ku...”

“Watch this if you need any more proof there's no expiration date on ignorance,” Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. In the video, 53-year-old Julie Edwards is heard making verbal threats to the officer as he fills out paperwork. “I won’t find you, somebody else will,” she said. “You making a threat...

Trump Humiliated As El Paso Passes Resolution Calling Out His Lies

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“I’m not sure what these critics thought they were going to find on a blog called “Freelance Christianity,” but there you go. ”

I have been accused frequently over the past several weeks by commenters on my blog and on Facebook of promoting an understanding of Christianity that is significantly different than “traditional and historical” Christianity. I’m not sure what these critics thought they were going to find on a...

What Happened When a Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“I explained exactly why a wall won’t work, using conservative sources to prove it”

Aconservative challenged liberal Facebook friends to “make a case, not based on emotion” against Trump’s wall. Conservative buddies flooded his post with snide remarks about how this would be impossible for “deluded libs.” “Okay, I’ll play,” I responded. To avoid being accused of bias, I...

Addressing New York’s New Abortion Law

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Q: Does the new New York law allow full-term abortions?”

New York’s Reproductive Health Act was signed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion. It’s a measure that abortion-rights advocates in New York have long sought to pass but...

Analysis: How the GOP’s Tax Scam Is Now Backfiring Spectacularly

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  248 Comments  •  5 years ago  •  LOCKED

“The Republican Tax Scam of 2017 — also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — was filled with tricks and gimmicks designed to hide the fact that it was ”

And now that Americans have started to file their 2018 tax returns, the extent of the GOP deception is being seen for the first time. Writing in Vox, Matthew Yglesias explained that the backlash being seen from many Trump supporters now filing their taxes is a direct result of unconscionable...

Trump stumbles through a Prayer Breakfast speech to evangelicals as he celebrates 'abolition of civil rights' and praises Karen Pence for teaching at anti-gay school while Pelosi cringes

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  21 Comments  •  5 years ago

“'Together we will end the scourge of modern-day slavery that, because of the Internet, is at levels that nobody can believe,' he said. ”

Trump spoke to an annual evangalical gathering in Washington Mangled praise for people of faith who brought about slavery abolition and the Civil Rights movement, mashing them up as 'abolition of civil rights' Tripped over admiration for police officer who 'raced' into gun massacre, saying he...

Donald Trump Thinks There Are Countries Called ‘Nipple’ And ‘Button’

Via: Don Overton  •  Entertainment  •  1 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Donald Trump is so corrupt, it’s easy to forget at times how ludicrously incompetent he is.”

Time magazine’s national security correspondent John Walcott wrote over the weekend about how members of the U.S. intelligence community are worried the President himself is a national security risk simply from his “willful ignorance” of foreign affairs. That and he refuses to listen to his...

Conservatives Are Perpetuating Dangerous Tropes About Patients Who Need Later Abortions

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  29 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Leading conservative figures have used legislation proposed in Virginia and passed in New York to spread lies about abortion.”

Again proving the lies told by conservatives and republicans. As an OB-GYN, an abortion provider, and a researcher who studies abortion and contraception, the work I do is fundamentally rooted in medical evidence and science. That’s why I’ve been so frustrated to see a conversation about...

Reagan's Race Record

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“J.P. Green wants it known that whatever Ronald Reagan was or wasn't doing in Philadelphia, MS he did have a terrible record on race issues; as...”

Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South"), and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling...

real title, The senator, whose runoff opponent is black, jokes about 'public hanging'

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  32 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Mississippi senator, whose runoff opponent is black, jokes about 'public hanging'. RETITLED: The republican who made racist comments and didn't...”

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that...