Can he be trusted now to protect and serve the public?
My friend, a cop with over twenty-seven years on the job, told me the other day on a Zoom call, “Dude, I know you won’t agree but I don’t really think this was Trump supporters. There is a lot of talk that it was the Antifa guys who got it all started. Then, the whole crowd-thinking thing kicked in, you know, and people just reacted.”
Before I could speak to his words, I had to think of little sheep quietly moving about aimlessly in a post-rain field in the Scottish back country — this is my go-to when I feel…
Democrats have a unique opportunity to form a working partnership with the American people
The times demand a great leader. Great leaders, however, don’t come about just because it says in the skills section of the resume: stable-genius, once-in-a-lifetime caliber leader. Surely, we can all recall a recent president whose resume did say this and the times, COVID, shattered that myth.
Great leaders assess the moment and, simply put, lead. The last president to have had such an opportunity, like the one staring Joe Biden in the eyes 24/7, was FDR. The times then, and now, demand selfless guidance to a less politicized tomorrow.
FDR’s political “good fortunes” were created by two major events…
To begin to understand ‘how did we get a Trump,” historians should start with the DeVos and Van Andel MLM brainchild
Historians will be pondering for years, how did the phenomenon of Donald Trump happen in the United States. Many will look to the end of the actual years of Trump, and at the most extreme elements of his following, and say it was all based on racism. Others will look at the incongruity of the support evangelicals gave to a man who openly bragged about physically dominating women he wanted to be intimate with — whether they wanted it or not.
Trying to understand Trump cannot rely solely on the Trump years; rather, we need to understand what happened over…
Satisfying customers comes at a cost to employees — but employees have no other choice.
There has been a lot of talk about the increasingly large role that warehouses are playing in the context of the American workforce. As the decline of traditional, or brick & mortar, retail accelerates because of the coronavirus, the Amazon fulfillment centers (FCs) have come under fire for being super spreader work environments.
Without a doubt, I will say that they are spreading Covid-19 but not because they want; but because they can’t help themselves. Let’s take a closer look.
While my background as a c-level executive in leading retail and e-commerce companies enables me to offer an educated opinion…
Didn’t that state representative know that a black hand on a white racists door would end badly?
You really can’t make this shit up, people. Park Canon, a Democrat, and Black, state representative, from Georgia, was concerned about a law. The signed law was going to make it greatly more difficult for Blacks to vote. Knowing the governor was at the moment signing it in his office, she decided to knock on the door.
Before her, however, stood a white, Trumpist cop — I don’t know his political allegiance for sure, but I am willing to bet my two cats that a white state trooper in Georgia loves Trump — and behind her stood two more troopers…
The rebirth of American apartheid is now just a matter of time
The photo here was from the 1960’s. Look at the signs. Not much has changed in the past fifty-five or so years, you know? The faces are the same, also.
Today, however, there would definitely be an extra sign. It would say something like “we demand water when waiting in unbearably long lines to vote.” In order to vote, Americans wait longer than everyone else in all of the liberal democracies. In the states that most actively seek to suppress the minority vote, waiting is even longer.
The wait has gotten longer in part due to the greatly decreased number…
My final rant about the dangerous half of America that looks like me
I have been relying on the art of name-calling too frequently lately; but it’s hard not to, and I am sure many of you will agree with me. There isn’t much that can be done to relieve the sense of “everything is falling apart around us.” The America, the country half of us are still loyal to, still love and who traditions we still cherish, is being slowly, and methodically overthrown.
What can a president do if the local governments enact fascist, authoritarian policies? What good is a Congress controlled by Democrats, if they pass laws that openly rescind the…
Gun-obsessed Republicans mock the victims, and their loved ones, each time those insincere words are uttered.
How many times have we heard these completely empty words spoken by Republican politicians over the past twenty years?
Innocent Americans go to church, or, say, to the supermarket, and while cruising the aisles trying to remember what they need for the weekend, a bullet rips through them for no other reason than that the NRA is a kingmaker for Republican politicians. If you remain loyal to the gun manufacturers, then you will be rewarded with:
- Donations
- A favorable rating
- Publicity in NRA advertising and publications
- Ultimately, power when you are elected
If you are a Republican politician, and you…
The talented director has a wonderful way of capturing the obvious and making it seem foreign
Michael Moore is being chastised by right wingnut America over his tweet. Let’s rewind this moment for a second and reread that first sentence. The right, the very people who spent four years, accepting the hateful, vile tweets, sometimes a dozen a day, from Trump, are upset over a tweet and demand an apology.
These same people, who still see nothing wrong with the president’s actions on January 6th, are now furious over a tweet that brilliantly captures the sad irony of our American experiment. I don’t doubt their faux rage is because deep down inside, they are cringing. …
Preachers abusing the trust of people needing spiritual guidance should be regarded as terrorists
Do you remember how in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslim terrorists were being imagined on every corner? If when boarding a plane, a Muslim passenger happened to be seen, regardless of worldview and political persuasion, anxiety pulled at the stomach — could this person be a terrorist?
As the blaringly obvious intelligence failures came to the fore in the months and years after one of nation’s darkest days, the entirety of the United States intelligence community refocused its efforts on the weeding out, and eradicating, of radical Islamic terror cells.
In communities where mosques were located, eyes turned to…
Brian Kean
A writer, a father and a student of history, the past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts
