“I thought to myself: I’m the difference between him and prison.” A 27-year-old woman identified as “Hannah” told the Daily Beast (DB) that after becoming a police officer, she devised a plan to meet with the male family member who molested her when she was a child in an effort to get him to admit his […]
They talk tough – some of the time – but at the end of they day they are simply cowardly conservatives. Conservative pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and so-called politicians like Donald Trump talk a mean game, building their reputations through their alleged “straight talk.” However, as The Atlantic point out, they are nothing […]
Donald Trump’s list of 88 military endorsements is lacking any real firepower. Republican nominee Donald Trump released a list of 88 military endorsements on Tuesday. However, as NBC News reports, “what’s most surprising about the list isn’t who’s on it, but just how many names are absent.” Retired Army Col. Jack H. Jacobs and military […]
In an ironic twist of fate, conservative anti-feminist and anti-union activist Phyllis Schlafly passed away on Labor Day. I have written about Schlafly in several blogs, on FB and in my book American Woman: The Poll Dance. I spoke ill of her while she was alive. I have no desire to speak ill of her […]
Any working class Americans voting Republican are voting against self-interest. John Nichols, a long-time contributor to The Nation and the periodical’s National Affairs correspondent, wrote a blistering Labor Day article on Donald Trump as the Republican Party, writing that their “platform is a litany of foolish dreams.” Nichols tears into Trump from the start, writing […]