Tag: Confederacy

Immaterial—that’s what Vice President J.D. Vance called the cuts to Medicaid contained in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). From his perspective, that’s what ...

Nice weather we’re having, isn’t it?  What happened to TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) when we needed him?  Let’s hope the president is better at ...

Well, the sudden implosion of the bromance between President Trump and Elon Musk has certainly made for a peculiar celebration of Gay Pride Month, hasn’t ...

Alas, Mad King Trump and his trusty MAGA administration are only getting worse.  As many times as the courts block their actions, they charge ahead ...

Having talked about the horrific Jim Crow South on multiple occasions, both here in my journal and elsewhere on my website, I applaud the fact ...

President Trump is delighted to force other world leaders into subservience: “They all want to kiss my ass” (aka “bribe me”), he boasted.  We know ...

One of President Trump’s latest executive orders, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” targets the Smithsonian Institution, which includes 21 museums, libraries, research centers, ...

As I have often acknowledged, a sizeable portion of Trump’s MAGA base have good reason to be angry about their circumstances, even if that anger ...

Like a lot of people, this humble spirit suspected that all the excitement about Ukraine’s rare earth minerals was an obvious ploy that would allow ...

It should be clear that Donald Trump wants to be America’s king.  He doesn’t want to work with Congress or respect their power (of the ...

President Trump and his MAGAs are even more obsessed with DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) than “wokeness.” Their obsession represents a fanatical opposition to civil ...

Well, Trump saved the worst for last, didn’t he?  “The American Carnage is Over” was replaced by “America’s decline is over,” but there was still ...

The bodies had hardly been cleared from Bourbon Street when President-elect Trump spouted off on social media about terrorists coming across the southern border as ...

Is there any question that Trump and his billionaire allies want to turn the country into an oligarchy, not unlike the one Putin created for ...

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 ...