Category: Mitch McConnell
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Dear American News Media: Not Every Point Of View Has A “Point”
Opinions. Everybody’s got one. But, not all opinions are created equal. Not every point of view has a point. For instance – a not-very-bright ten year old’s opinion about world affairs (or a libertarian’s) will likely lack nuance. Same as a Republican’s. Our news media has decided it can’t judge anyone’s opinion – no matter […]
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Why Right Wing Talk Is Cheap
Boy, the right wing makes a ton of noise, don’t they? They love getting up on their hind legs and spewing. The words being spewed don’t matter. It’s word salad that’s been through the garbage disposal. Alas, our undiscerning news media (undiscerning because they think “both sides do it”) makes zero distinction between facts and […]
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Trump Was Hoarding America’s Secrets Because He’s A Traitor
The instant Donald Trump stopped being POTUS, he lost all right to have our secrets in his possession. That’s a stone cold fact. That he took some of our most secret secrets with him to Mar a Lago? That was and is a crime even as he was doing it. It hasn’t stopped being a […]
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America’s Having An Ideological Argument, NOT A Political One
The GOP’s hate for democracy stands on one tectonic plate. Our love for it stands on another. America’s differences are ideological not political.
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Let The Brain Drain Begin!
Hear that deafening suction sound? It’s the brain drain beginning. Fact: the cynical, corrupt religionistas who just took away every American woman’s reproductive rights never thought for two seconds of the ripple effects their spurious actions would cause. They never thought about them and didn’t care. Unfortunately for them, those ripple effects will boomerang viciously. […]
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Every Christian I Know Is Paul On The Road To Damascus
Yesterday, as the Supreme Court closed out a session historical for its radical Christian lurch backwards toward an America that was, We The People got reminded (harshly) that extreme religiosity and democracy are mutually exclusive propositions. From abortion to guns to clean air, the religious extremists on the court (and how the bloody hell did […]