Tag: Confederacy

The reaction to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is one more demonstration of just how angry and unhappy many Americans are—and understandably so.  ...

There’s no pretending the Trump Campaign’s hateful misogyny wasn’t just that, blatant hostility toward women.  And not surprisingly, now that he’s been elected, it’s on ...

The media pundits are currently obsessed with slicing and dicing the election results, because, after all, that’s their livelihood.  I’m not sure what there is ...

“Cultural Heroin” is how J.D. Vance described Donald Trump before tech billionaire Peter Theil made him a rich man, paid for his Senate campaign, and ...

Sadly, all the absurd and dangerous “misinformation” about the two recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton, distracts attention away from the fact that our poorest citizens ...

Along with just about everyone else, this humble spirit fears that he’s spent too much time writing about Donald Trump.  Unfortunately, the man provides an ...

It would appear that Trump has nothing left to say to the American people but to spread ridiculous conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants eating pets, ...

Given that Donald Trump violates everything and everybody, most especially women, it’s not very surprising that he and his campaign staff violated the hallowed ground ...

Despite what his advisers tell him, Trump refuses to abandon his tried-and-true (if always false) play list—which primarily centers on drumming up irrational fear and ...

No matter what happens in November, the Democrats finally have a viable candidate in Kamala Harris.  After the frustration of feeling powerless to stop Donald ...

This humble spirit would like to join the crowd in commending President Biden on passing the torch.  Even avid Biden supporters should acknowledge that what ...

Kevin Roberts, president of the far-right-wing Heritage Foundation, the organization responsible for the equally far-right-wing “Project 2025” announced last week on Steve Bannon’s War Room ...

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has suggested enacting a foolhardy and frightening fiscal policy that one commentator has aptly dubbed “Trumponomics.” “Bidenomics,” which is serving ...

It’s both shameful and depressing how many billionaires, including much of the Silicon Valley crowd, have been “coming back” to Donald Trump in recent weeks, ...

Will anyone do anything to stop Donald Trump from becoming president again?  Journalists and commentators have been regurgitating the threat he poses to our democracy ...

Two events in the news last week highlight MAGA’s ugly machismo tendencies, its pent-up anger and readiness to engage in violence: ambitious up-and-comer Kristi Noem, ...

This humble spirit hates to sound like a wacko QAnon conspiracy theorist, but that’s how I’m feeling lately.  I’m not so concerned that everything is ...

An abortion ban dating back to 1864?  Are you kidding me?!  That’s only a year after this former Confederate officer lost his life fighting (on ...

Surely you’ve already heard all about it, but it’s impossible not to comment on the aspiring snake oil salesman in chief. Donald Trump was, is, ...

How did the Democratic Party become the party of college educated “elites”?  What happened to the party of the American middle class, the working people?  ...