Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Since taking office on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump has been handed several opportunities to do the right thing. These opportunities were so obvious. All they required was someone with enough common sense and compassion to...
Marsha Blackburn at CPAC 2015 (courtesy Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)
As we all know, it's almost an article of faith on the religious right that Christians are being persecuted in this country. But when Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn spewed this talking point last weekend, she...
Backlash from Mr. Donald Trump's plan to ban Muslims from coming into the U.S. have had an incredible backlash world-wide, with Adolf Hitler being only the most-obvious and most-often-made analogy for behavior of The Trump....
It was November 7, 1938. A 17-year-old ethnically Polish Jew living in France named Herschel Grynszpan had learned the Nazi party had exiled his parents to Poland from their home in Hanover, Germany. Enraged, Grynszpan retaliated by shooting Ernst vom Rath, a...
Reasons I'm done talking to conservative friends and family members
I'm a Southern girl. Born in the South, raised in the South, and have rarely lived anywhere BUT the South. I actually love the South. I'll die in the South. Being a Southern girl, I...
VoteBuilder, the demographic data aggregator, has proven to be the catalyst for tensions between the Bernie Sanders campaign and the Democratic National Committee. VoteBuilder is the party's demographics engine. The service receives voter data- i.e. whether...
Studies correlate low IQ with rabidly racist and right-wing views Does talking to a Teabully leave you asking: What's wrong with this person??Do Teabully posts and memes make you wonder if people, who believe those things,...
Last week, USA Today published an opinion editorial column attributed to Donald Trump titled "Democrats 'Medicare for All' plan will demolish promises to seniors." Immediately, Washington Post fact-checkers got to work. And what they found was nothing short of astounding. It turns...
Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) admitted he faked evidence to portray former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) as guilty of breaking the law, according to Occupy Democrats. Democratic leaders and the American public are calling on the...
We know that more than half of the U. S. population is convinced that Donald Trump is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state. Now we know that some of our...
Donald Trump and those who support him always say they aren't racist in the least, they just want to "make America great again." But then you see the video below of a truck convoy of Trump...
Donald Trump, who has said he will mandate we all say Merry Christmas when he is elected President, sent out cards that say Happy Holidays.
  Bernie Sanders is easy to dismiss by political convention. He’s too old. He’s Jewish. He’s too liberal. He’s pro-marijuana legalization. He’s a self-proclaimed socialist. He’s from a small state. He served as an independent in...
Senator Bernie Sanders 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee
Even with the lead Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has in the polls, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has continued to garner support from small donors at an historical pace not seen in any previous election –...
OK you guys know what that headline probably was implying even though your amazing liberal brains were saying "WTF????" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the AP that he is thinking about seeking the Republican presidential nomination....
Just so we're being completely transparent here, you should know this: This is being written under duress because I don't have enough money to fight a legal battle against the Trump machine. Yesterday, I wrote a...
democracy and corruption Bush Rumsfeld and Cheney
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration. The organization has accused CIA director George Tenet and Defense Secretary...
A food bank preparing to serve.
America's economy is in the toilet. It's harder than it's ever been in the history of our great nation to become rich, and there's exactly one culprit: moochers. The 'moocher class' is sucking up huge...
For nearly 30 years, I was a licensed, certified speech/language pathologist. I spent hours analyzing the expressive language of my patients. I'm retired now, without a license, but I haven't forgotten what I did every day. I...
What's going on, America? How did we come to this? How is the most vile, bombastic candidate to ever run on the Republican ticket besting the Democrats? In case you've been hiding in a cave...