“Sure, don’t stoop to their level. But let’s acknowledge that the game Republicans are forcing everyone to play insists morality is for losers.” More …
Month: December 2017
For Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP, Business Comes Before Environment
“The changes in Wisconsin have wide-ranging implications for the public — from fewer protections for lakes, streams and wetlands to less money spent on recycling programs, state parks and public land purchases.” More …
Good Riddance to the Biggest Fake in American Politics
“Paul Ryan makes noises about going back to Janesville.” More …
How the Loss of Net Neutrality Could Change the Internet
“Net neutrality advocates paint an array of troubling scenarios — from smaller websites like the crafts marketplace Etsy and streaming service Vimeo forced to pay tolls to reach consumers, to cable giants like Comcast blocking or slowing disfavored sites while giving priority to their own content.” More …
The Biggest Loser in the Alabama Election: Evangelical Christians
“The Christian leaders who have excused, ignored, or justified Trump’s unscrupulous behavior and his indecent rhetoric have only given credence to their critics who accuse them of hypocrisy.” More …
The Republican Nightmare Is Just Beginning
“In 2018, party strategists fret, they’ll face a tough electoral landscape—and a bumper crop of fringe candidates.” More …
GOP Government Begins to Ban Words: “Fetus,” “Evidence-Based,” “Science-Based”
“The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from using a list of seven words or phrases — including ‘fetus’ and ‘transgender’ — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.” George Orwell warned us about this in his novel, “1984”. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words… ” More …
Trump Administration Is Mulling a Pitch for a Private “Rendition” and Spy Network
“A private company has proposed that the US government pay it millions to undertake intelligence and covert operations.” More …
Erik Prince Testimony to Congress Is Unbelieveable
“There was a time, and not so long ago, when a person who treated a congressional committee like a group of not-very-competent valet parking attendants would have been introduced to institutional dining for a few months, But this is the present Congress with the present Republican majorities, so Prince looked up from the witness table and saw what he perceived to be a gathering of ambulatory doormats.” More …
U.S. Treasury Department Admits GOP Tax Plan Won’t Pay for Itself
“Today, the Treasury Department finally released its much-promised analysis of its tax plan. And it turns out, they can’t deliver what they promised.” More …