Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
For years, MAGA Republicans have fetishized AR-15s, the weapon Trump’s assailant used. They wear AR-15 lapel pins and pose brandishing the high-powered assault rifles. Now, in an Olympic-worthy feat of mental gymnastics, Trump’s acolytes claim that the AR-15 attack makes Trump and Project 2025 off-limits to campaign criticism. Get real. After Paul Pelosi was brutally…
Read MoreA brawl’s going on in Oklahoma. About teaching the Bible in schools. A preacher’s son Ryan Walters grew up in a small town, after college taught at a local high school; whisps of whiskers covering his cheeks, at 39 ran for Oklahoma School Superintendent – won. Sounding like a teacher said schools needed to teach…
Read MoreSenator Thom Tillis twisted himself into contortions with this tweet last week: “Huge news for Wilmington, the Department of Transportation will be awarding $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge! I was proud to advocate for the project to @SecretaryPete on behalf of North Carolina and co-author and help get the bipartisan infrastructure…
Read MoreThe night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, April 4, 1968, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy spoke to an audience in a Black neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is part of what he said: “In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask…
Read MoreThe political media’s feeding frenzy over President Biden is an extraordinary development in this campaign. Their arrogance will be studied and scrutinized in political, journalistic and academic circles for years. Washington reporters and commentators seem genuinely angry – even personally insulted – that Biden hasn’t acceded to their judgment, or demand, that he exit the…
Read MoreAre Trump and Biden a pair of giants shaping what Americans see, think, believe? Or are Trump and Biden simply mirrors, reflections of what Americans believe? Not long ago if a politician got caught telling a lie he went down in flames. Lies were taboo. Did Trump convince people lies don’t matter? Or is Trump…
Read MoreDemocrats all over the media are saying it’s time for Biden to step aside. David Axelrod said Biden ‘can’t beat father time…it’s likely he loses by a landslide.’ James Carville said ‘the jig is up’ – Biden can’t win. The New York Times called on Biden to get out of the race. Times columnist Maureen…
Read MoreSince 1968, political parties that changed horses in midstream have ended up drowning. That year, antiwar Democrats forced President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the race. Robert Kennedy ran and was killed. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy fought all the way to the convention in Chicago. There, police battered and bloodied protesters in…
Read MoreAs you swelter through the heat, see 120-degree-plus temperatures in the Southwest and follow the first-ever June Category 5 hurricane (photo), look at what Trump’s Project 2025 says he would do and why: “Break Up NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) …which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components…. “Together,…
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