What is the point of offering refuge to someone who is fleeing a threat if you cannot prevent the threat from reaching them in the place of refuge? For example, what good is a battered woman shelter if the screening process for people granted access to the shelter is not sufficient to prevent the batterer…
On a January 28, 2017 airing of AM Joy, Joy Reid gives a stellar illustration of dishonest media devoid of integrity. In the first part of her show she hosts Bill Nye, a science zealot who is intolerant of anyone who does not embrace every proclamation from the so called scientific community; without challenge or question.…
Human beings require food to live; but some people are extraordinarily challenged to procure requisite sustenance. In America, the government, through the Department of Agriculture, has instituted programs to assist people so challenged. One such program is Food Stamps, a.k.a. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); and another is Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); both of which restrict the…
On January 25, 2017, New York Times writer Jonah Engel Bromwich posted a piece entitled Felony Charges for Journalists Arrested at Inauguration Protests Raise Fears for Press Freedom. In it he reports the arrest of a large group of protesters that included some media personnel; which he posits is a contravention of the US Constitution. However, the First Amendment…
There can be no doubt that most of these women have deluded themselves into believing they are accomplishing something important; oblivious that they are reiterating the old stereotype about women being inherently emotional, irrational and not inclined to engage their intellect. Even if this demonstration had a clearly defined objective, it has no hope of…
Like a sulking child who did not get his way, US Representative John Lewis refused to attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump in an attempt to foster an acrimonious relationship between Trump and Black Americans because Lewis has no idea how to constrain him. There can be no doubt that John Lewis would not be…
Dianne Feinstein and other Hillary Clinton supporters are still so incredulous that Clinton lost the presidential election that they are willing to ascribe blame to anyone or anything other than that America simply did not want an Obama sequel. Feinstein, on Meet The Press, essentially echoed the allegations that are popular among Hillary supporters and…
Senator Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, opposes the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General of the United States because he fears Sessions will comply, to the letter, with “all” of the laws of the United States. Booker’s testimonial statement expresses apprehensions that Sessions will not advance certain movements, efforts and ideals; but Booker apparently…
New York US Senator Charles Schumer told NPR’s All Things Considered, and anyone else who would listen, that as the “leader” of democrats in the senate he has no intention of cooperating in any attempt to construct a viable replacement for the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., Obamacare. Schumer intends that the incoming Trump administration be seen…
Bitter over the imminent repeal of “Obamacare”; offended that Donald Trump finds his leadership skills inferior to Vladimir Putin’s; and obliged to avenge Hillary Clinton’s loss, President Barack Obama has employed the CIA to launch a propaganda assault against Trump in an effort to diminish his popularity. Ironically, in doing so Obama validates Trump’s assertions;…
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