I was interested in just who Jay Sekulow is. I found out he is a very busy man. He is so busy that he is the perfect person that Trump would have picked to be Chief Council. He is an entertainer, an activist and reported
The recent case of DeAndre Arnold, a black Texas teen of Trinidadian extraction, who is not being allowed to walk the stage to celebrate his graduation because of a hairstyle is not as unique as you might think. I have a personal stake in this
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1762. Lied when he
Oath of offices for republicans, disregarded by a sham Senate impeachment trial, apathy and unconcern and downright distraction from half of the voting public and denial plus addiction is what 2020 looks like so far. We have loyal followers of the so called King. It is no
http://www.people-press.org/… http://www.cnn.com/… Pew Research is the second poll this week showing that 51% of Americans want Donald Trump convicted and removed from office. This poll says 46% wants him to remain President. CNN’s poll from a couple of days ago found that by 51% to
Lest anyone doubt that I am not a defender of legal counsel, for even the most heinous of criminals, that is not the case. I believe everyone deserves the best defense they can buy or are afforded if not our legal system is a sham.
The raging bushfires and intense drought that has plagued the Australian continent for several months have taken a heavy toll on wildlife, particularly in the state of New South Wales. The images of burned koalas and kangaroos are chilling, but they are not the only
I have read about and listened to commentary on McConnell’s proposed rules for the Senate impeachment trial beginning tomorrow. It is for me the final straw. Perhaps I can provide some context with a tweet I posted after reading them. I wrote: simply put –
http://www.cnn.com/… CNN’s Latest Poll says that 51% of Americans want the Senate to remove Donald Trump from office while 45% are opposed. Nearly seven in 10 (69%) say that upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment
Although today is not the actual date of birth for Civil Rights and humanitarian leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we have given him the ultimate American honor, a day off for workers, and retail sales prices at your favorite stores. I hope that we
The impeachments of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump share a crucial element in that the necessary, predicate facts of wrongdoing were not seriously in dispute in either case. In each case, the true inquiry is not about the facts, but whether the plain misconduct rises to the level
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates
The moment of crisis has come. Sir David Attenborough Adani is a global company based in Ahmedabad, India. Adani and its CEO, Jeyakumar Janakaraj, have their fingerprints over some of the worst environmental extraction sites on the planet. The company builds power plants and operates
Martin Luther King was a great leader and peace activist. Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis as he stood for civil rights and unions. He was killed by a racist with a gun. Martin Luther King will be honored by many this coming Monday but
Right now, Texas is under siege, and there’s not too much our military can do about it. On Jan. 7, Gov. Greg Abbott told the Domestic Terrorism Task Force that the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) measured, over a 48-hour period, a colossal increase
Received this e-mail from Julián Castro (D. TX) in support of Dr. Eliz Markowitz’s (D. TX-HD28) campaign in the upcoming special election to flip the Texas State House: When I ended my campaign for president, I told you that I wasn’t done fighting. To build a
Received this e-mail today from the progressive group, Indivisible: If you’ve been on Twitter in the last few days, you’ve probably seen it: a video of Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally lashing out at a CNN reporter, calling him a “liberal hack.” The question wasn’t exactly (read:
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas shared critical information this week about the involvement of President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Barr
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL) in support of MJ Hegar (D. TX), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns: Iowa. Kentucky. Texas. Dick Durbin is supporting exceptional Democratic Senate candidates in each
Donald Trump once said he’d get 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for reelection. I’m thinking no. A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll also tells a completely different story. Go figure: While personally optimistic about their own lives, black Americans today offer a bleaker
