No, those aren’t words that I ever expected to write, either. But… President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after…
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The WORST Thing, So Far, About The Trump Presidency Is. . .
…that it’s actually starting to make me nostalgic for this guy: Seriously. This is the stage we’re in. This is how far the Republican Party has fallen, with Trump in office. Whatever else you may think of George W. Bush, I bet he would not had a problem condemning Roseanne Bar’s tweet about Valerie Jarrett.…
Modern American Conservatism Summed Up In Two Screenshots
Who’s the “snowflake” now?
KATHY GRIFFIN WAS WRONG
Not cool. Totally not cool. For the record, I have been a fan of Kathy Griffin for years. I mean, not a super-hardcore fan or anything. But back when it was on, I’d catch an episode of her TV show My Life On The D-List now and then back in the day, and I’ve enjoyed…
Michelle vs. Melania
I Agree With Vice President Mike Pence
Yeah, that’s not a sentence I expected to say or write any time in the next (hopefully only) four years. But then I saw his name trending on Twitter this morning, because of this: Mike Pence’s ‘Billy Graham Rule’ has Internet yelling sexism Vice President Mike Pence demanded an apology from The Associated Press after…
Meanwhile, In Trump’s America. . .
A female friend of mine got the above message on Facebook from this woman, Arlene Brock, whom my friend didn’t know. She posted it because she thought it was funny. She said she didn’t even know who Chris Barker is, she’s added a lot of people over the years. And she looked at the man’s…
Yes, Donald Trump SHOULD Be President.
Don’t look at me like that! Let me explain! I know I don’t talk about politics all that much here, and the last time I did I predicted that Hillary Clinton would not pick a White male as her running mate. Which she ended up doing, so clearly I’m not all that great a political…
WHY POOR WHITES SUPPORT TRUMP by Juan Paul Brammer
POTENTIAL VEEPS
Save So, over the weekend, Donald Trump picked his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who is extremely right-wing. I must say that I’m only slightly surprised. First, I knew that Trump was going to pick an established politician. Despite the caricature of Donald Trump, one thing he is not is stupid. So although his…
Carly Fiorina, Who Was Right About Ted Cruz: I Was Wrong About Ted Cruz
On Wednesday, Carly Fiorina was given the rare opportunity to be on the right side of an issue. Unfortunately for her, that issue was new best bud Ted Cruz, so Fiorina decided to be wrong. Shortly after she was announced as Cruz’s running mate, Fiorina was asked about her newfound support for the man she…
The Case Of Eddie Bolden: One More Reason I Oppose The Death Penalty
For the last 22 years, Eddie Bolden sat in an Illinois prison, convicted of killing two men. The only hitch: He didn’t do it. It was just this year he was exonerated of the crime, and this week he was freed, just in time to see his son Dom graduate from college. “I was anxious…
What If Fred Thompson (R.I.P.) was President?
So former politician and actor Fred Thompson died on Sunday. It got me thinking about his brief Presidential run in 2007. I remember, in the early months of the election, his popularity started rising thanks to a series of Youtube videos he filmed taunting Michael Moore and others. But when he actually entered the race…
Tricky Dick Morris
Dick Morris is a political analyst/pundit, whose biggest claim to fame is that he helped President Bill Clinton in 1994, after the GOP retook the Congress for the first time in over 40 years, President Clinton regain his relevancy and coast to an easy re-election 2 years later. That’s pretty much it. That’s his major…
Bill Maher and “Free Speech”
Well, here we go again. Consider this post a sequel to my earlier post: Yes, You Still Have “Freedom of Speech” (even if you get fired or boycotted) If you’re reading this, please read that first, if you haven’t already. I’ll wait. Done? Good. Well, far too many people are still operating under the mistaken…
Yes, You Still Have “Freedom of Speech” (even if you get fired or boycotted)
art by Randall Munroe THIS. This really needs to be said, and shared, everywhere it can. Because I’m always seeing people misunderstanding exactly what freedom of speech means. Whenever some public figure says something stupid or offensive and gets fired or threatened with a boycott someone else wants to start screaming about that person’s “free…
Ted Cruz For President?
By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be: natural born citizens (including naturalization passed from parents). At least thirty-five years old. Inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years. Article Two of the United States Constitution Ted Cruz is a Republican Senator from Texas, elected in 2012, and…
Why I Oppose “Hate Crimes” Laws
Here’s one of my opinions that often has people falsely assuming that I’m a Conservative Republican. It’s that I don’t believe in the concept of “Hate Crimes.” Specifically the idea that certain crimes committed against someone specifically because of their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc. deserve extra punishment under the law. To me that…
I FEEL LIKE A BLACK REPUBLICAN. . .
I am not a Republican, nor do I consider myself a “Conservative,” yet I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten several “follows” on Twitter from several self-described Republicans and Conservatives, particularly Black Republican spokespeople and groups. And I’ve actually been accused of being a Republican, by people who mean that as an insult, several times online. They…
I AGREE WITH SENATOR RAND PAUL…
…and, no, that’s not a sentence I ever expected to write. But when you’re right, you’re right. To wit: Rand Paul fights for felon voting rights Tayna Fogle sat just behind Sen. Rand Paul, nodding her head and listening as he pressed the case with Kentucky state senators to restore felon voting rights. “Kids do…
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT?
Hillary Clinton has been all over the news in recent monthss, despite not actually doing anything herself. But many Republicans are upset @ the idea that NBC and CNN are planning to produce films about her. Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus demanded that NBC & CNN cancel their films, and when they refused, the GOP…
WHAT A WEINER!
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal, admitted Tuesday that his Internet shenanigans didn’t stop when he stepped down in disgrace. Hours after a gossip website published raunchy texts and explicit photos it said were from 2012, Weiner held an extraordinary press conference — accompanied…
SENATOR MARCO RUBIO IS A BIGOT
The last time I wrote about this fellow, I was agreeing with him that Tupac was a better rapper than Biggie. I said that if he ran for President in 2016 he’d get my vote. Well, now I’m taking that vote back. Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act,…
COULD CORY BOOKER BECOME THE 2ND BLACK PRESIDENT?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker officially announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at a news conference in New Jersey on Saturday. Booker, 44, will run to fill the seat vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday of viral pneumonia. “Democracy is not a spectator sport,” Booker said at the event.…
WHY I SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
You know, people who have heard me speak or read my writings about politics would probably describe me as “Liberal.” I don’t know if I really am, at least not in the way that word is typically used today. I don’t adhere to any particular ideology. I’m not a Democrat, but I do think that…
