In a surprise revolt, several Republican congresswomen removed their support for the proposed 20-week abortion ban, causing GOP leaders to cancel the vote. Concerns were raised by the women over the narrow exception for victims of sexual assault – rape victims would only be able to claim exemption to the ban if they could prove […]
A Republican councilman from Frederick County, Maryland, stepped in it when he posted a threat on his Facebook page regarding an alleged “hit piece” about him published by The Frederick News-Post. In the post, Kirby Delauter wrote that the author of the piece, Bethany Rodgers, had “absolutely no morals or journalistic ability,” threatening that if […]
CNN published an interesting article in December 2014 entitled The new threat: ‘Racism without racists.’ The rather lengthy article deals with the failure of any meaningful “national conversation on race,” noting that “such conversations rarely go anywhere: Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism, scholars and psychologists say.” The […]
“The Republican Party is not a political party – it’s a mental condition. And I mean that seriously because if you are for crushing the poor, unprovoked wars, there is no climate change, immigrants. It’s like ‘who are we’?” ~Actor and comedian Richard Belzer Back in 2005 psychiatrist James Whitney Hicks published a book entitled […]
Well, the 2014 midterm elections were a disaster. We all saw it coming. The polls were telling us so. I blogged about it as did others. But you just didn’t seem to care. You stuck with your strategy of sending endless, desperate emails begging us for three dollars – as if that was going to […]