Guest Column – By James Rhodes – It is evident that some news readers are confused and baffled by the actions of many Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate, as their policy positions do not line-up with long standing Republican principles. I resided in Alabama when being a Republican was not only rare, but…
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Trump Tests Positive: Fake News or Karma?
By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – For the past seven months, responsible Americans have endured the psychologically trying times created by the rampaging coronavirus pandemic, by staying at home as much as possible, abiding by the social distancing guidelines recommended by medical experts, staying at least six feet apart from other people, wearing masks when…
President Trump Makes No Secret of Conspiracy to Gut Mail Voting: Senators Urge USPS to Fix Delays and Avoid Cost Increases Ahead of November Election
By Glynn Wilson – A group of United States Senators, including Doug Jones of Alabama, is urging President Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide answers regarding reports of recent changes to long-standing practices at the U.S. Postal Service, changes that would result in increased delivery times and costs for election mail,…
Gallup Polls Show Trump’s Damage to Republican Party: Elections 2020 Are Democrats to Lose
U.S. Party Preferences Swing Sharply To Democrats – By Glynn Wilson – Gallup’s latest polling reveals the damage President Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party and indicates the presidential and U.S. Senate elections in 2020 are the Democrats to lose with less than four months to go. While Trump seemed to be…
One More Day: Doug Jones Opens 10 Point Lead Over Roy Moore
Politicians in Washington Hurt Americans by Playing Partisan Politics with Health Care
Equal Pay Hero Lilly Ledbetter Endorses Doug Jones for U.S. Senate – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the debate in the United States Senate goes forward on the Republican effort to repeal and perhaps replace the Affordable Care Act, people all over Capitol Hill are talking about the balance of power in…
Thoreau’s Realometer: Sessions is a Goner — Trump Should Go Too
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oh how things have changed since Henry David Thoreau’s 1854, when he first published Walden. How things have changed since 1896, when Adolph Ochs purchased and began transforming the New…
Congressman Bradley Byrne Faces a Packed Town Hall in Mobile
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne faced a packed town hall of opposition protesters and constituent supporters Monday night, answering questions about veterans health care, the environment and controversial decisions, statements and actions by the new President, Donald J. Trump. About 250 people made it into the private auditorim on…
Democrats Win American Public Opinion Over Republicans With Conventions
By Glynn Wilson – Public opinion survey results in the wake of the national political party conventions over the past two weeks back up what knowledgeable commentators said at the time. The convention shows still matter in swaying public opinion at the margins, and the Democratic Party’s convention show and Hillary Clinton’s speech won over…
Analysis: Comparing and Contrasting the Republican and Democratic Party Platforms
EDITORS NOTE – We thought it might be interesting and informative to compare and contrast the Democratic Party and Republican Party platforms for 2016. Here is our analysis of some key similarities and differences. We welcome your comments below. By Glynn Wilson – For starters, the Republican Party Platform Preamble begins with a categorical statement:…
Is the U.S. Republican Party a Threat to Human Survival?
Nuclear weapons, climate change, and the prospects for survival. – By Noam Chomsky – In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two…
Trump Hits on the Media
Making Sense – By Michael Reagan – Donald Trump is still no conservative and never will be. He still hasn’t figured out that the mix of insults, bluster and off-the-cuff political statements that won him the Republican Party primary won’t work in the general election. But a lot of us conservatives enjoyed watching him attack…
Gorilla Politics and the Grand Old Party
Raging Moderate – By Will Durst – A hearty congratulations to conservatives for a seamless transition from party-wide disgust to near unanimous endorsement of a gorilla as their presidential nominee. Considering the tortuous undulations required, this metamorphosis seems to have occurred with shockingly few chiropractic adjustments. Having indulged in the kind of convoluted contortions that…
Look Which Political Party is Crying Now
Making Sense – By Michael Reagan – Look which party is blowing itself up now and struggling to unify behind a single candidate. Hint: It’s not the Republicans. After all those months of worrying and complaining about having too many candidates, the GOP finally found its 2016 presidential candidate, for good and bad. A couple…
Bernie Sanders Wins Concessions from Democratic Party, Names Five Members to Platform Committee
Glynn Wilson — To understand the impact Bernie Sanders is having on the presidential election of 2016, look no further than Tuesday’s announcement that Sanders gets to name 5 of the 15 members of the Democratic Party platform committee. While the Washington Post broke the story, the paper now owned by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos chose…
Abe Lincoln Must Be Rolling Over in His Grave
By Dick Polman – Here’s the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds….” And here’s the presumptive 2016 Republican…
Donald Trump is No Ronald Reagan
I Can See Clearly Now the Continuing Role of COINTELPRO
Blowing the Biggest Political Story of the Past 50 Years
By Neal Gabler – Ah, the crescendo of complaint! The Republican establishment and the mainstream media, working hand in hand in their unprecedented, non-stop assault on the “short-fingered vulgarian” named Donald Trump, would have you believe that Trump augurs the destruction of the Republican Party. Former Reagan speechwriter and now Wall Street Journal/CBS pundit Peggy…
Unforced Errors, Miscalculations End Jeb Bush’s White House Hopes
By Steve Holland – CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Before Donald Trump’s put-downs and the stumbles in presidential debates, and before the profound frustration of voters became so unmistakably apparent, Jeb Bush appeared to be best positioned to win back the White House for Republicans in 2016. He amassed a $150 million war chest in 2015,…