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Republican Party
Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You
By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | – – Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it. Soon you’re going to hear about taxes. You’ll see images of families flashing across your TV screen while a soothing narrator assures you […]
Gov. Rick Scott enabled Irma’s Fury through Climate Denialism & Should Resign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Before becoming governor in 2011, Scott had been an entrepreneur who “ specialized in privatizing healthcare and ran a hospital chain convicted of a massive healthcare fraud.” Scott met with Carbonmongers Charles and […]
What are American Soldiers really still dying for in the Mideast?
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I used to command soldiers. Over the years, lots of them actually. In Iraq, Colorado, Afghanistan, and Kansas. And I’m still fixated on a few of them like this one private first class (PFC) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2011. All of 18, he was short, scrawny, […]
Bannon & Trump lost Long ago: White Christians not a Majority in US
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1976,when Jimmy Carter was elected, a big majority (81%) of Americans identified as both white and Christian, with 4 in 10 of those being white Catholics. The country even had a majority (55%) of white Protestants! Carter, an Southern evangelical, benefited from the Christian vote […]
Trump “presidency” as Ponzi Scheme: Madoff in the White House?
John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Here and abroad, Trump’s wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade. In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in the Romanian city of Cluj. The railway station was mysteriously full of people, and the city outside was crowded and frenetic. I was […]
Deporting Dreamers will cost US $400 bn. over 10 Years
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s consiglieri, Jeff Sessions, came out yesterday to smear the some 800,000 young people in the DACA program, undocumented people brought to the US when they were children, without their having decided as individuals to break any law. He implied that the deferment from deportation instituted […]
The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, they won when so many lost. James Comey was axed. Sean Spicer went down in a heap of ashes. Anthony Scaramucci crashed and burned instantaneously. Reince Priebus hung on for […]
“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | Jamiol’s World Cartoons | – – Via Jamiol’s World Editorial Cartoons