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Republicans’ Frankenstein Monster
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did something today that Democrats should have been doing everyday for the last eight years. He called out Congressional Republicans for their unrelenting obstructionism. History will look back and note that the Republican Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect. No one expected them to agree with everything that…
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You Say Vote
You say vote and someone says: “Democracy is a sham. Those people don’t speak for me. The system is rigged.” You say vote. Someone says: “Well, it doesn’t make a difference. This state is red. Another state is blue. This thing is already a lock.” You say vote. Someone says: “Hey, I’m making a statement…
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Baby Bomber!
So, at the top of the 7th inning yesterday, the Yankees had scored a run to tie the Tampa Bay Rays at 2-2. There were two runners on base but also two outs and the Yankees’ sensational rookie catcher Gary Sanchez was ambling up to the plate, with Butler following him. There was frantic discussion…
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I am Raw with Rage
Does it matter that we’ve been saying for a long, long time that there’s a systematic and continuing extermination of a people. Why do people refuse to see our trail of tears and outrage? Keith Lamont Scott Terence Crutcher Philando Castile Alton Sterling Freddie Gray Eric Garner Michael Brown Amadou Diallo Mapping Violence The Counted The…
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Dunham’s Extraordinary Contrition
The brouhaha kicked up by the actress Lena Dunham complaining that New York Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. failed to somehow objectify her is interesting to me because of American history. The issue of black-male interaction with white females in American history has always been historically problematic—Emmett Till, may God rest his soul, paid for this…
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The Trials of Hope Solo
I am still trying figure out what was wrong with what Hope Solo said about how Sweden played in the Rio Olympics soccer quarterfinals. No, let me back up. I was shocked when I read what she had said. Then, I chucked it to Hope being true to herself. Her team lost a frustrating match.…
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Trump on Clinton’s Bigotry: Pot Calling Kettle . . .
One thing is clear. Donald Trump does not have a plan to win the office of President of the United States. His intention is to win every news cycle by saying the most outrageous things that occur to him at that given moment. A short time ago, it was encouraging gun owners to make sure…
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Another Dangerous Trump Idea
Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for President of the United States, proves daily that he is not in the race to win it. But he aims to cause as much havoc as he can on the way to not winning the presidency. How else do you explain his efforts to recruit poll watchers in order…
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Trying to Derail Obama. Again
There have been political cartoons and breathless stories, including blatantly false ones by Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for President of the United States, about how President Obama paid ransom to get the Iran nuclear deal. Now, along comes a corrective story in the form of a New York Times editorial: The first thing to…