The NYT reports the following: Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general, served on the advisory board of a Florida company that a federal judge shut down last year and fined nearly $26 million after the government accused it of scamming customers. The company, World Patent Marketing, “bilked thousands of
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Politics and its Discontents: Sad But True
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Rabid Right Revealed
This demonstrates a great deal about the extreme right, doesn’t it? Tweet this back to @IngrahamAngle is she ever pretends she cares about what happens to other people. pic.twitter.com/lY3ilkk5vW — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 6, 2018 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not That Facts Matter Anymore
I wonder what would he say if someone sexually assaulted his Ivanka??pic.twitter.com/jBs13S7q4F https://t.co/Cvg4Hs4ZKd — Maggie Resists Trump (@Stop_Trump20) October 4, 2018 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Putting Populism In Perspective
Martin Amis offers his acerbic assessment of the current populist mania: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Conveniently Ignoring History
While I am sure there are some interests within Canada who will applaud Justin Trudeau’s latest effort at placating Donald Trump, I am not one of them. As history well demonstrates, policies of appeasement never work. Trudeau’s latest attempt at taming the insensate Toddler-in-Chief is to be found in his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Vindication Of Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick is someone I admire. As previously noted in this blog, the former NFL player, whose decision to protest police brutality against blacks by taking a knee during the American national anthem, has paid dearly for his integrity. But vindication has finally arrived, vindication sure to end Donald Trump
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Blessed Are The Benighted
My good friend Dave in Winnipeg often rails sardonically against the twin curses of intelligence and critical-thinking. If you start the following video at about the 50-second mark, you’ll see that some have ‘blessedly’ been spared such affliction. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Words Mean Little Anymore
While I realize it is not healthy to obsess over things over which I have no control, I find myself consistently astounded and dispirited by the dystopian reality we now inhabit. While the world has been deteriorating for many years, I find it hard to deal with the fact that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Amerika’s Formula For Success
As noted the other day, the United States or, as I like to call it, Trump’s Amerika, no longer even bothers to conceal its contempt for the rest of the world. It’s disgraceful threats at the the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly against Ecuador for sponsoring a resolution to encourage
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: American Thuggery
By almost any metric, the United States is a rogue nation. The depth of its depraved thuggery was recently made evident to the world: A resolution to encourage breastfeeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: She Stands By Her Man
When we talk on the phone, my good friend Dave in Winnipeg often talks about the twin ‘curse’ of intelligence and education. Life would be so much easier, he says sardonically, without them. I was thinking about Dave last night as I watched an NBC News report detailing the actions
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Signs Of The Times
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Trump’s Amerika: "A Toxic Mix Of Senseless Cruelty And Corporate Greed"
The private-prison industry stands to make a fortune from Trump’s immigration crackdown. This toxic mix of senseless cruelty and corporate greed means big profits. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is This Really Something To Be Proud Of?
I find myself these days thinking about the beasts that have been unleashed upon society. In the United States, of course, it is Donald Trump who has made it acceptable to openly hate, mock, exclude and even kill. In Ontario, citizens have selected Doug Ford as their new premier. While
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is What They Are Fleeing
While Trump and his apostles demonize the migrant families seeking sanctuary in the U.S. as rapists and drug dealers, here is a part of their reality the profoundly intolerant choose to ignore: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Special Place In Hell Awaits Part 2
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This, From The ‘Greatest Country On Earth’
I guess when you live in that bastion of democracy, the United States of America, one must be mindful, shall we say, an unwritten set of rules: Rob Rogers has been working as the editorial cartoonist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for the past 25 years. On Thursday, he was fired.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Setting The Record Straight
Robert Reich is one of America’s true heroes. He seems indefatigable in his efforts to educate the American public as a counter to the lies and distortions of Donald Trump. Given the prodigious challenges involved in bringing people toward the light, I have no idea where he gets either his
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