The country started to release stay-at-home orders in more places than it probably should during May, but then on May 25 worry about that was overtaken by the murder of a black man by a Minneapolis cop. George Floyd was suffocated by a policeman who put his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck while Floyd was …
Via my Facebook friend Dave Von Ebers, here’s Mike Royko’s column dated April 5, 1968, the day after Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. FBI agents are looking for the man who pulled the trigger and surely they will find him. But it doesn’t matter if they do or they don’t. They can’t catch …
In all the discussion about removing statues of Confederate generals, politicians and soldiers the question comes up: “It’s history. You can’t just eliminate it.” I don’t disagree, but we don’t have to leave the statues in places of honor in our cities like Monument Avenue in Richmond. Why can’t we remove them and put them …
After Saturday’s events in Charlottesville, VA, where a mob of white supremacists and Klansmen felt so enabled by the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency and the elevation of Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to the highest levels of power in the Trump Administration that they could march unmasked and …
Why did Trump tweet a reversal of policy toward transgender military personnel? If this reporter in Politico is right, it’s because a House bill which contained funding for his precious border wall was being held up by a bunch of so-called fiscal hawks (that’s their excuse; I suspect the usual bigotry) who didn’t want any …
Have a little attempted voter suppression with your lunch. Kobach asked the Connecticut secretary of state’s office to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data, including the full names of all registered voters along with their addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, voting history and …
And Mayor Mitch Landrieu explains why they should. Congratulations to the city, its people, its politicians and its Mayor on a job well done.
Texas’s politicians are all trying to prep for a gig in the Freedom Caucus in the US House. How else can this be explained? Texas adoption agencies could ban Jews, gays, Muslims This is not a joke. Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by state-funded or private agencies with religious …
Bernie Sanders continues to cater to and hunt for the white working class, particularly the male part of it. He apparently concluded that Democrats should do that based on the statistics collected about Trump voters in the last election. Many of those voters were members of that class, no question. But should the Democrats sell …
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a spiteful little man named Mark Brody who thinks his and his Republican party’s views on transgender people are righter than any old governing athletic body like the NCAA or the Atlantic Coast Conference. He and four co-sponsors have introduced a bill in the NC State Legislature which states that …