Angry white supremacists radicalized by Trump and the rabid right are the real danger to safety in America- far more than immigrants at the border. 51% of Americans currently believe Trump is racist and before this election season is over that number is likely to be higher. Why? Because Trump, […]
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America is under attack. The Garlic Festival shooting in California. El Paso. It is under attack from our own president, Donald Trump, the white supremacist in the Oval Office. His angry, hate-filled, rhetoric about people of color in American cities and immigrants at the border is fanning the flames […]
Happening at our border right now: traumatized children trying to comfort other terrified, emotionally distressed children who had been removed from the care of the grandmothers and aunts who had accompanied them and protected them on their trek to the U.S. border, mothers sobbing in the arms of the lawmakers […]
Why roll out the big tanks in Washington DC, and have the military marching around on display and jets flying overhead for the 4th of July? Because Trump needs to feel better about his equipment. Trump has yearned to have a military parade ever since he saw one in France […]
Bill Barr spent two days testifying before Congress in two different hearings and made temporary A G Matthew Whitaker look good by comparison. If nothing else, these hearings should help anyone who thought Barr was going to be a moderating voice for truth, justice and the American way in the […]
Watching Trump give his presidential speech on Tuesday night I couldn’t help thinking how pathetic he has become. There he sat in the Oval Office woodenly reciting his repetitive Grimm’s fairytale about how he needs a wall to prevent horrible Mexicans and other dark-skinned people from streaming, zombie-like, into this […]
Which One Will Win on Election Day? This week we heard the closing arguments for Election Day from the Republicans, delivered by Trump, and the Democrats, delivered by Barack Obama and Oprah. The contrasting narratives could not be more different. Our nation is engaged in a fight between two […]
Here is a description of Robert Bowers, the man who entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and deliberately shot and killed 11 people: – “Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Suspect Was ‘Pretty Much a Ghost,'” by NYT’s Trip Gabriel, Jack Healy and Julie Turkewitz: “Robert Bowers, the man accused of gunning down 11 congregants […]
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a post! Seventeen years ago, on 9/11 when the planes flew into the World Trade Center, our country […]