Saturday, my favorite political site Electoral Vote published a question from one of their readers asking about Tara Reade’s accusation of sexual assault against Joe Biden. Here’s the question and their answer: Q: I was wondering if you might comment on the recent failed anti-Biden propaganda push related to sexual assault. Whoever is pushing the […]
Three things happened in the last three days that have made me so angry that I couldn’t write this post until I calmed down a bit. It is now many hours later, so here they are: First, two days ago was this headline: “White House abruptly transfers DHS official amid loyalty purge“. This is a […]
The Senate has passed the Coronavirus Relief Bill, which will likely pass the House by the end of this week. The size of the bill is staggering, at $2.2 trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, total federal spending is already $4.45 trillion, so we are talking about increasing this year’s spending by 50%, to […]
Back when President Obama was trying to enact health care reform in 2009, Sarah Palin created and popularized the term “death panels”. She claimed that the ACA would create panels of bureaucrats who would decide who was “worthy of medical care”. Even though this was a complete fabrication on the part of Palin, it managed […]
The same person who authored the Medium article featured in my original “Read this NOW” post has come out with an update, and this time he had lots of help. The new version has concrete suggestions of good ways to contain the coronavirus outbreak, and has the added benefit of only requiring harsh restrictions for […]
Italy is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus. In fact, on Thursday they passed China on the number of people who have died from the pandemic — that’s an absolute number, which is pretty scary considering that China has far, far more people than Italy. And the Italians have been under a […]
If you ever wanted to see the rewriting of history going so fast that it might give you whiplash, the Washington Post has put together this video showing Fox News hosts contradicting themselves over the course of a week. Do they really think their viewers are so stupid that they won’t notice? Could they be […]
Some of you may have noticed a few technical problems on this blog in the last couple of days. I updated the version of PHP and WordPress, and all hell broke loose. I think I have everything working properly again, and the new versions are faster and more secure now. But let me know at […]
How long before the market realizes that better advance preparation for epidemics and pandemics would be good for the economy (including the stock market)? Bill Gates, one of the most ruthless businessmen of the modern era, talked about this 5 years ago! UPDATE: The Atlantic has a great article listing all the times our government […]
While you’re sitting at home, here’s two videos you can watch. If you see any others, please post them in the comments. UPDATE: I love this one, from Australia!
Everyone should read this article NOW. It is long and contains lots of numbers and graphs, but it explains everything well, every step of the way. If you want the short version, it is that we must reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, and the best way to do that is through social distancing, which […]
Donald Trump is trying to rewrite recent history, but he may not realize that the internet never forgets. Here’s a post from Political Wire: As President Trump attempts to blame President Barack Obama for his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s important to document Trump’s comments during this public health crisis. These are not utterances from […]
This is a snarky article from The Independent, a UK newspaper: Thank God we have Trump to do what the scientists won’t – build that coronavirus wall by Mark Steel We’re so lucky. Because in a time of global danger, we need leaders who are clear, informed, sensitive and decisive. So, truly, we have been […]
A friend sent me this article from political historian Heather Cox Richardson that discusses the coronavirus, oil prices, and Donald Trump fiddling while America burns. I encourage you to read it. This reminded me that I needed to add her website “Letters from an American” to my list of links (to the right). I’ve done […]
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