Cesar Chavez
You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.
DEAD BEAT CITY
90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.
Book Review
In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.
Donald J. Trump
The back is a bald eagle in flight. Fleeing in embarrassment?
Kathy Hochul
“Maybe our first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring home,” she said.
War With Iran
Iran has lost control of its skies, the seas, its ability to fire ICBMs, its long-time Supreme Leader, almost everything but its bowels.
Michael J. Fox
After a period of depression and boozing, he straightened out and launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the leading funder for research into fighting the disease.
Zionism
Anti-Semites manage to believe in contradictory myths — that Jews are the energy spreading world communism, while at the same time controlling Wall Street, the fountainhead of capitalism.
American Muslims
What Ogles has done is blame an entire group for the misdeeds of a few. That is called guilt by association and that’s not how U.S. law works.
Reality determines my political positions, not vice versa
He supports trans women competing against biological women in sports, a hugely unpopular position.
Without remorse, he parades a stunning set of statistics to prove, in his view, that blacks did better before affirmative actions, than after. In life, in education, on the job.
Trump doesn’t take orders from Netanyahu — he gives them.
Today, 1% of the households control 31% of American wealth, and this is the greatest ever. Some call this the New Gilded Age.
With any luck, a good ending to the war will result in the rebirth of friendship between Iran and both Israel and the U.S.
We can brake the madness by giving control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats.
I want no misunderstanding about me sympathizing with him. I am not. Not an ounce of sympathy.
“These people are crazy!” Trump said at another moment, pointing at Democrats.
With the advent of television, the SOTU is less information for Congress than it is a carnival pitch to lure citizens into the tent.
Parker doesn’t want to say so, she doesn’t want to poke the bear, meaning Trump, and bring more ICE to Philly. They operate here right now, but quietly.
Courage is defending opposing points of view, even offensive ones.
Heraskevych stood by his guns. He wanted to wear his helmet in competition to honor his friends, and he was willing to pass up on his own shot at glory to do that.
