A Note on the Tragedies in America this Weekend
Every week, I do a Facebook Live, which we call our “battle cry” to rally the Convention of States troops. This weekend, I couldn’t muster it. Instead of a “battle cry,” it was more like a “cry.” Here are some thoughts from the heart.
Did Democrats Just Fire High Level Staffers Because of their Race?
For years, Democrats have touted themselves as the modern “party of diversity,” perhaps as a way to distance themselves as the party that historically promoted slavery and segregation. But in spite of their current rhetoric, Politicouncovered that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has very few people of color in their upper management. After Politico did a couple of deep […]
No, a Democrat Candidate Didn’t Protest the National Anthem
When the ten Democrats took the stage for the most recent CNN debate, the network chose to begin the festivities with the national anthem. Good for them for doing this, in spite of the fact that Democrats are frequently a-okay with all the national anthem protests led by people such as the former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. […]
Transgendered ‘Woman’ to Female Beauticians: Wax My B****s
You just can’t make this up. The British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal (CHRC) recently held hearings on whether women hair removal specialists should be forced to do so on male genitalia. Madeleine Kearns at National Reviewhas the details on this “Too Weird to be an Onion” story from Canada, where these estheticians were literally taken to court […]
Bette Midler Calls African American Trump Supporters ‘Blackground’
Actress Bette Midler recently dubbed African American supporters of President Trump “blackground.” Of course, like most truly awful comments, this happened on Twitter. She was commenting on a photograph taken at a Trump rally which had black people in attendance. “Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be ‘blackground’?” […]
Bernie Sanders Staffers’ Ask for $15 Minimum Wage, So Now He’s Cutting Their Hours
Sometimes politics gives you a good laugh. That’s what happened when I saw that Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders had some unhappy staffers. They wanted the $15 minimum wage that the candidate was telling America was “just.” If it is so “just,” then why was Bernie paying them less? Very good question. Sanders reluctantly agreed to raise their […]
Rush Limbaugh: Republicans Are No Longer Fiscally Conservative
Something revealing happened on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program recently. Last week, the famousconservative radio host had a discussion with a caller that went like this: CALLER: In 2019, there’s going to be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been […]
Miss Michigan Loses Title because of ‘Offensive’ Posts
Everything – literally everything — is politicized. The latest example of this? Miss Michigan – a 20 year old woman by the name of Kathy Zhu — lost her title after pageant officials learned of two social media posts that have since been deleted. One of the posts dealt with Muslim women in 2017, after seeing […]
Trump’s Plan To Deter Asylum Seekers Is A Winning One
Immigration is a hot-button topic so embedded into the American story that it’s commemorated at the base of the Statue of Liberty with the famous Emma Lazarus poem. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” As important as it is to the American story, the system has been broken […]
Chris Pratt Criticized For Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ (Supposedly Racist) T-Shirt
Patriotic movie star Chris Pratt recently was photographed wearing a tee shirt that featured an American flag with a coiled snake on top of it. The words “Don’t tread on me” were emblazoned below. As most members of the Tea Party know (heck, don’t most Americans know this?) the image is a derivative of the historical […]