Tag Archives: tea party

Have the Republicans, in an attempt to keep a Democratic former CIA operative from Congress, released her private security clearance application to the press?

By Mark | August 28, 2018

Back in 2014, with the rabid support of the Tea Party and far-right talkshow hosts like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Ann Coulter, Dave Brat, an econ professor at Randolph–Macon College with an Ayn Rand fetish and a talent for riling up crowds of angry voters, somehow managed to win the Republican primary for Virginia’s […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abigail Spanberger, Alexandria, Ann Coulter, anti-government, CIA, Congressional Leadership Fund, Dave Brat, Eric Cantor, Girl Scouts, Hostile Intelligence Service, Islamic Saudi Academy, John Schindler, Koch brothers, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Muslim, Paul Ryan, race baiting, racism, Saudi Arabia, security clearance, SF86, Super PAC, Terror High, Valerie Plame, Virginia | 46 Comments

I wish John McCain had stuck around long enough to see Donald Trump brought to justice

By Mark | August 27, 2018

One hopes that, when @SenJohnMcCain passed, some of his courage migrated to other members of the @GOP. #TheForce #OldBenKenobi #Resist pic.twitter.com/oWFmnD43uU — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) August 26, 2018 Every living American president, with the exception of Donald Trump, has issued a formal statement on the passing of Senator John McCain. According to reporting out of […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2008, Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Courage, Donald Trump, hero, Jeff Flake, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Corallo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Oleg Morozov, petty behavior, prisoner of war, Qanon, Rand Paul, Russia, Russiagate, Sarah Palin, Susan Collins, the force | 30 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

By Mark | November 23, 2017

A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andover, Arlo, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Dan Richardson, It's a Wonderful Life, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Mark's ancestors, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, mosquito, New Jersey, Newton, Pat Maynard, sacrifice, Sarah Palin, thankful, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Turkey, Ypsilanti | 4 Comments

The North Carolina Coup: This is what happens when voter suppression stops working

By Mark | December 16, 2016

I don’t know how well it’s being covered by the television news, but, at this very moment, there’s a coup underway in North Carolina, as the Republican legislature, which was ostensibly called back to the capitol for a special legislative session to deal with the aftermath of hurricane Matthew, started passing bill after bill intended […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged asshole Republicans, coup, demographics, Donald Trump, gerrymandering, Moral Monday, North Carolina, racism, reconstruction, redistricting, Republican strategy, Roy Cooper, standing up to the Republicans, Supreme Court, the south, threats to Democracy, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act, William Barber | 15 Comments

So, what happens on November 9?

By Mark | October 17, 2016

During this past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, I talked at some length with Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director of the Trump Pence 2016 campaign, about both the possibility of polling place discord on November 8th, as a result of Trump supporters attempting to suppress the vote in “certain areas”, and the likelihood […]