BY BOB BEARDEN Social Security and Medicare are socialistic programs that benefit our citizens as they were intended. President Trump has released his 2020 proposed budget and it is in the trillions. It includes drastic cuts to Medicaid and Medicare [over a 10-year period], which would directly affect most of the people who voted him…
BY JOE CONASON The political movement swirling around President Donald Trump – formerly known as the Republican Party – displays certain unique features but is really just the latest noxious excrescence of the American right. Like so many of its predecessors, the Trump movement is built on fear. And like every movement motivated by paranoia,…
BY VERN TURNER Everyone saw this coming down the escalator in 2015. What ended up being the second biggest mistake this country ever made [slavery being the first biggest] took no time in mouthing off his racist views about Mexicans and Muslims. He would save doing that to black people in code words via tweets…
BY VERN TURNER The volume and intensity of news regarding the Trump Administration is becoming more convoluted than a John LeCarre’ spy novel. It seems that the corruption, lies, deceit, sedition, incompetence and embarrassing episodes have no limits with this latter-day Romanov impersonation. With each breaking story line, that wonderfully salient line from All the President’s…
BY RALPH NADER In 1961, President Kennedy’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission [FCC], Newton Minow, described television as “a vast wasteland.” Perhaps nothing demonstrates that better these days than the rise of Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate; now the presumptive Republican nominee. Trump’s boisterous carnival barker persona has dominated the airwaves for…
