Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Trump
Remember Donald Trump bragging about never having to do any fundraising for his campaign? Well, maybe he should have, at least to practice for the day he was broke and needed the money. You'd think after five...
minimum wage
Over the past several years, many states have been revisiting their minimum wage standards. The process is really nothing new, and happens every couple of years to adjust for things like inflation and the general...
harassment
No one can deny that the world of social media has become a volatile place since the election. From friends engaging in ugly arguments on Facebook to nasty tweets being sent over political opinions, verbal...
You may remember that back in June, comedian Tracy Morgan and four of his friends were driving on the New Jersey Turnpike? when a Walmart truck slammed into their limousine. The limo flipped over, killing...
On December 6, 2016, Jason Miller, a spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump, told the press that Trump had sold "all his stocks" last June. The Washington Post reports that campaign finance disclosure forms filed in May of this...
Betsy DeVos
If you thought that the Republicans were the party of law and order, think again. Common Dreams and the Washington Post report that Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, ran a Political Action Committee...
Japan
In a poorly researched appearance on Monday (it was Sunday here -- Japan is 14 hours ahead of us), President Donald Trump once again put his ignorance on full display in front of Japanese Prime...
They're at it again. As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill includes another insult: repeal the Affordable Care Act's, aka Obamacare, individual...
The idea is simple, but profound. One month into the administration of Donald Trump, the nation has seen marches and protests in every major city and many small towns. Americans by the millions are angry and...
Well, they did it. Thursday, congressional Republicans passed a non-binding budget resolution that threatens to cut $473 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid so the top one percent of the population can enjoy a $1.5 trillion...
Full disclosure: I am in love with Jennifer Lawrence. I am slightly obsessed with her. This is mainly to do with the fact that she played my Mockingjay to perfection. But it's also because she's...
millennial generation
The sales numbers are in and thongs are out for the millennial generation. The new driving force of consumer trends (the millennial generation is generally considered to be those born in the 1980's through the early...
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans are set to lose their food stamp benefits in the upcoming weeks, as harsh new requirements go into effect. In a number of states, including many...
Hillary Clinton in Phoenix (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
September has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month for Wells Fargo. In case you missed it, the nation's third-largest bank is under fire for creating bogus bank and credit card accounts that the supposed...
McDonald's employees
According to McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook, implementation of a $15 minimum wage would not lead to McDonald's employees being replaced by robots. The current jobs being performed by them will likely be replaced as the...
The pandemic could be killing more than those infected with COVID-19. Due to its impact on in-person instruction, it might also be delivering a death blow to American public education. School districts are experiencing a noticeable decline...
Civil unrest, an unmitigated pandemic, white supremacist fascists marching in the streets, an ailing economy, worsening income inequality, lies, and voter suppression. This is Donald Trump's America. If he is re-elected to a second term, these will...
We have been struggling with our healthcare system since the Orange Menace, President Donald Trump, was elected into power. We are one of the only first-world nations that doesn't have single-payer healthcare. This would be...
  Zhang Weiwei had an article on The Huffington Post titled; "China's Success Due To Rejecting Both Market And Democracy Fundamentalism" where he makes the case that China has discovered the modern secret of how to...
80 Hour Work Week Kills Dreams
Okay, why don’t I have any money? Many people work 60 to 80 hours a week or a full-time job and part-time job, yet there never seems to be enough money or time. What happened?...