Remember how hilariously funny it was, just a few days ago, when Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz wore a gas mask onto the floor of the House in an attempt to make light of what he saw as Democratic overreaction to the public health emergency we’re all now facing? Well, guess what? A few days after […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Air Force One, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, gas masks, Matt Gaetz, public health, quarantine, stunts |
Last night, after watching highlights from Donald Trump’s disturbing performance at CPAC, I posted the following to Twitter. And, as a few people have asked me what I meant by it, I thought that I’d post an explanation here. McCarthyism started this way, with threats against institutions of higher education designed to force out liberal […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1954, Alan Haber, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, Donald Trump, executive actions, First Amendment, Free Speech, hate speech, Herman Webster Mudgett, higher education, History, House Unamerican Activities Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Madona, Mark Nickerson, McCarthyism, Pete Larson, red scare, research, SDS, Stephen Tonsor, Students for Democratic Society, Theodore Kaczynski, Unabomber, University of Michigan, university research, whore |
By Mark | February 27, 2017
For some reason, in spite of the fact that we have Donald “I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life” Trump as our President, we seem to be experiencing a wave of anti-Semitic acts across the country. Last week, over 170 gravestones were toppled at an historic Jewish cemetery […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt Right, Anne Frank Center, anti-Semitism, Arrow Cross, Auschwitz, Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, bocskai, bomb threats, Breitbart News, Budapest, conspiracy theories, Corvinus University, desecrating graves, Donald Trump, Dylann Roof, fake news, far-right, fascism, globalist elites, globalist media, hate groups, holocaust, Hungary, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish, Jobbik party, KKK, Michael E. Smith II, Miklós Horthy, Nazi, Order of Vitéz, political correctness, racism, racist dog whistle, Sebastian Gorka, Southern Poverty Law Center, Steve Bannon, Strategic Initiatives Group, terrorism, white nationalism |
By Mark | February 25, 2017
At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blacklist, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, Dan Rather, Dean Baquet, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fake news, First Amendment, free press, journalism, New York Times, Politico, Sean Spicer, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Washington Post, White House Correspondents’ Association |
By Mark | February 24, 2017
Yesterday, there was a lot of talk online about how Betsy DeVos, our controversial new Secretary of Education, had taken a principled stand on behalf of transgender students, pushing back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump, both of whom had apparently urged her to support the rollback of protections extended by the Obama […]
