During his campaign, Donald Trump set up a policy shop to study and recommend policies consistent with his own views and general conservative positions. (To save conservatives time, those aren’t the same thing.) Many candidates do something similar. Unfortunately, Trump’s … Continue reading
Yesterday Donald Trump completed his first month as president. Here’s how he judges his performance so far: Link: https://youtu.be/pxhf0iLXm70 OK, this isn’t really Trump’s self-assessment. It’s a set of his attacks on President Obama for doing the same sort of … Continue reading
On this day in 1895 the great orator and author Frederick Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington DC. He was a powerful advocate for equal rights for all, including voting rights for women, and … Continue reading
Conservative Republican Congressman Will Hurd represents a Texas district that includes about 800 miles of the Mexican border — about 40 percent of the whole thing — and he calls Trump’s proposed wall “the most expensive and least effective way … Continue reading
Bill Maher, who used to have a show called Politically Incorrect, here takes on the excesses of so-called political correctness. (The usual warning to applies for those with sensitive ears: This is a cable program, and it’s also Bill Maher.) … Continue reading
The Pew Charitable Trusts and the MacArthur Foundation have been jointly examining how states make use of evidence-based policies, and on January 26 the released a report. The full 47-page document can be viewed as a PDF, or you can … Continue reading
Astronomer and blogger Phil Plait has a good summary of climate concerns here. As he notes, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the independent research group Berkeley Earth all concur … Continue reading
From Samantha Bee’s YouTube channel, the admirable Michael Forbes at his Scottish home, which Trump tried and failed to buy: Link: https://youtu.be/8m24yYMW2iw For more from Scotland, see this previous post, which includes the Scottish version of Star Trek. by … Continue reading
Charles J Sykes, who formerly a hosted a conservative radio talk show in Wisconsin, now thinks the U.S. far right has gone a bit too far right. (He has a book coming out next October called How the Right Lost … Continue reading
Illegal immigrants have been responsible for some horrendous crimes, which is one reason people want to see illegal immigrants deported. There’s also the belief that immigrants, legal or not, take jobs away from people born in the country. In fact, … Continue reading