Politics
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Is it proper to choose a president of the United States based upon the equal-opportunity concept? You bet it is!
What brought about the creation of equal-opportunity statutes? That's easy – a lack of sincerity and commitment with regard to our centuries-old, flag-waving with regard to America's being a land of liberty, equality and justice. Despite the beautiful poetry of the Declaration of Independence, after the British Colonies became states, nothing changed on the human-equality scale, to wit:
- Written by: Tom Hedges
- Category: Politics
Vladimir, Vladimir...
How does your country grow?
With armed tanks and fighter jets
All parked in a row.
Barrel bombing and gassing your pal's citizens
Seems to be something you can ignore.
It will all come back on you...
In this horrible tragedy and war.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
John Boehner, the lachrymose Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, immediately after having accomplished a years-long attempt to have the leader of the Catholic Church deliver an unprecedented speech before the Congress of the U.S., abruptly announces that he will resign his seat, effective around the Halloween festivities. He suggests that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy should succeed him.
Read more: THE HOUSE-SPEAKER, LOUIS FARRAKHAN and the GREAT PUMPKIN
- Written by: Patrick Julius
- Category: Politics
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The United States is unique among the First World in its rate of mass shootings. We have on average two per week, whilemost other countries have one every couple of years. Of course, part of that is our huge population; if you control for population we don't actually have a particularly high number of mass shooting deaths—and there is no country in the world where mass shootings are a major cause of death. Mass shootings are dramatic, but not actually something worth worrying about—like terrorism.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Illustration courtesy of Ray Staar
The iconic view of Rio de Janeiro, by sea or air, is Cristo Redentor, the huge statue of Christ the Redeemer. The arms are outstretched, extending its blessing to those denizens captured within the Iberian Catholicism that was transplanted to the whole of the lower portion of the American continent. Can we expect a similar monument, with Russian leader Vladimir Putin as the subject, to be erected somewhere on the Persian Gulf. The way things are going, Putin may earn it.
- Written by: Tom Hedges
- Category: Politics
Least productive Congress in modern times award goes to the 104th edition, in 1995. However, with a flurry of bills passed just before the 2014, 113th Congress adjourned, the 113th avoided being #1.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
The GOP standard-bearer with the empty flagpole, Donald Trump, has adopted the byword Making America Great Again. Others, furiously running behind him, trying to catch up, want to attach to the empty flagpole a Republican standard with their own version of what it will take to make America great again.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Kim Davis, Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, was jailed today for refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She is in defiance of a general U.S. Supreme Court ruling; her own governor's ultimatum to issue or resign; and appeal losses to a local court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read more: COUNTY CLERK JAILED: IS IT SATAN, JESUS OR CAESAR?
- Written by: Gregory Boyce
- Category: Politics
"America has always needed a Super Hero and a Villain; it's the reason why television wrestling is so popular". – TheodoreW.
Without a shadow of a doubt The United States of America is a very complicated country with a convoluted history. Protected by the girth of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and by a collection of underpaid uniform-wearing-patriots who proudly serve their country, often under great stress and with little complaint, it's safe to argue that the United States of America is a nation that's protected by the Grace of God, natural barriers and by the courage and unselfish service of a few good men and a few good women.
Read more: 2015 Politics in America: Coping with The Invisible Hand, The Status Quo and Trumpmania
