Don’t you love those polls that have pundits racing to the news channels bucked up with hyper confidence? When you have one like the recent New York Times/Siena College poll saying that Donald Trump was leading Joe Biden in five out of six battleground states, the click-baiting headlines virtually write themselves. But do the “early […]

We need to talk about what happens if Donald Trump wins. We need to talk about it because there is a real chance that he could, especially if we don’t talk about it. We’ve heard more than enough about how old Biden is and about how no one likes Kamala Harris. And we’ve heard more […]

The far-out right wing’s latest political ploy takes extremism to the extreme. Escalating their divisive series of “culture wars” [banning books, suppressing women’s rights, whitewashing history, demonizing teachers, etc.], their current idea is to declare war on ideas! Specifically, they’re going after state university programs that teach creative arts and social studies, including history, languages, […]

Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” Donald Trump said that following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. Other Republican candidates have used the same words. The problem for Republicans is not how they talk abortion but what they did about it. Trump vowed that as president […]

It is part of the 2017 Charter of Hamas, which rejected “any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.” It is part of the platform of Islamic Jihad, which has declared that “from the river to the sea – [Palestine] is an Arab Islamic land” leaving no […]