By Mark | February 3, 2020
Once every four years, our collective attention is drawn to the nation’s fourth whitest state, where people, after being interviewed all morning in diners by members of the press, gather in high school gyms to determine, with a series of coin flips and names pulled from hats, who we’ll all get to vote for come […]
By Mark | January 15, 2019
I guess we should just be happy that the Republicans have finally decided to turn on Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. While we’re congratulating Republicans for doing the right thing, though, and joining Democrats to formally condemn King on the floor of the House for questioning whether the term “white nationalist” should be considered […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigrant, border wall, David Duke, Donald Trump, House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, Nazi, racism, Steve King, Ted Cruz, white nationalism, white nationalist, white supremacist |
By Mark | August 28, 2017
A few days ago, I suggested on this site that Donald Trump, by pardoning Joe Arpaio, was signaling that he wouldn’t leave office willingly, like Nixon, but instead intended to fight, even if it meant fracturing the GOP, and perhaps the entire country, beyond repair. By rewarding Arpaio for his blatant contempt for civil rights […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Civil War, Dan Pfeiffer, Donald Trump, identity politics, Illinois, Illinois Nazis, impeachment, Joe Arpaio, Jon Favreau, leverage, Mitch McConnell, Nazis, Paul Ryan, Pod Save America, propaganda, racism, Richard Nixon, Russia, sanctions, tax cuts, trade, transgender, Wall Street, white nationalism, white supremacist, white victimization |
I don’t think it’s that new of an idea. I’ve heard people say before, “You know, we should make that border wall of Trump’s solar.” Today, though, was the first time that I heard Trump say it himself. He was addressing a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he made the announcement. Referencing the campaign […]
Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, border wall, Cegar Rapids, coal, coal ash, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Mexico, mining, Rio Grande River, solar, Vicente Fox |
By Mark | February 21, 2017
On January 23rd of this year, two weeks before billionaire turned anti-public education crusader Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Secretary of Education, Congressman Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 610, a bill which, if passed into law, would replace Lyndon Johnson’s landmark 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with something that King and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bible, call to action, charter schools, dismantling of public education, Education and Workforce Committee, equality, equity, ESEA, Free Appropriate Public Education, homelessness, homeschool, HR 610, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Bishop, Minneapolis Start Tribune, National School Lunch Program, Network for Public Education, Nevada, nutrition, pledge allegiance, poverty, private school, privatization, racism, religious extremism, School Choice Act, School Lunch Initiative, school lunches, school vouchers, Steve King, Tim Walberg, war on poverty |
