Update 1630 1/8/16 These are the drug dealers LePage was referring. Hey @Governor_LePage, which one is D-Money? The middle guy? I think it’s the middle guy https://t.co/khDMA0Wa16 pic.twitter.com/42TQmBMgKq — Nick Wing (@nickpwing) January 8, 2016 Which one is D-Money? Maine’s very bigoted Tea Party Governor Paul LePage went all out racist at a town hall …
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Dec 09 2015
Cracking the Overton Window
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discussed how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims proposal is not so different from the other GOP candidates. What will be the new “normal” in the Republican party for minority bashing politics after this campaign is over? She is joined by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Dec 07 2015
The Guantanamo 22
How a group of men from China’s Uighur community were sold in Afghanistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as terrorists. China’s western autonomous region of Xinjiang is home to the country’s mostly Muslim Uighur minority. But many have fled China in recent years to escape persecution from Chinese authorities who have banned some of their cultural …
Dec 04 2015
The GOP’S Worst Nightmare
The problem that Republicans are having with presidential candidate Donald trump is that he is everything that they have embodied since the 1960’s. Senator Lindsey Graham bluntly stated the problem: “If you’re a xenophobic, race-baiting, religious bigot, you’re going to have a hard time being president of the United States, and you’re going to do …
Nov 30 2015
Managing Anger
I’ve been really much too angry to talk about many of recent events both here in the US and overseas. Since the bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctor Without Borders) hospital by the US military in Kunduz, Afghanistan to Friday’s mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, trying to remain objective …
Nov 23 2015
What John Said Last Week Today
One of my favorite pundits is comedian John Oliver. Since leaving “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” he has made his mark on the premium cable network HBO with “Last Week Tonight.” Once a week, John takes a satirical look at news, politics and current events, often laced with “colorful” language, videos and costumed characters. …
Nov 20 2015
What Is Wrong With the Democrats?
While the media has been zeroed in on hyping the House vote on banning Syrian refugees, which 47 Democrats voted for, creating a veto proof majority and feeding into the terrorist’s meme, the House Democrats, 88 of them including the head of the DNC Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schults (D-FL), voted with 244 Republicans to allow …
Nov 18 2015
Death in Plain Sight
The mass shootings in Littleton, Newtown, and the Washington, DC Navy Yard have become a rallying cry for gun control in the United States. Yet, on average, every day across the country at least three women are killed by intimate partners, the majority shot to death. Guns and domestic violence are a lethal combination in …
Nov 13 2015
Not Only Did They Know, Yes, They Let It Happen
The fact that the Bush administration ignored warnings that Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were plotting a massive attack on the United States was evident from the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing. What wasn’t apparent is just how horrific the warnings from the CIA were. ‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’ An exclusive look …
Nov 05 2015
Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Remember, remember! The Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot! So the poem starts that commemorates the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 and Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed …
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