politics
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Every State Needs A Tony Evers For June Pride Month
Nothing should surprise me anymore. And yet….. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) declared June “Fidelity Month” yesterday to celebrate “Cultivating fidelity to God, family, community, and country.” Sanders then shared a Daily Wire story explaining that she made this declaration specifically for the purpose of “Counter-Programming Pride Month.” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a proclamation last week declaring… Continue reading
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Why America’s 250th Birthday Doesn’t Feel Like 1976’s Celebration
America is about to turn 250, and you wouldn’t know it unless you happened to trip over a press release from the city or county about a parade or upcoming fireworks displays. For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley… Continue reading
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Russia And China Have Plans For The Future
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed their nations’ partnership during a two-day summit. They were linked rhetorically and with broad policy goals as they will use combined energy to undermine Western institutions and values. The chemistry between those leaders was much different from how Xi and Trump interacted at… Continue reading
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A Young Artist, A Summer Night, And A Deadly Hate Crime
The murder of O’Shae Sibley wasn’t just another hate crime; it was a reminder that some in white America still treat gay Black life as a provocation, a dare, a challenge to the fragile egos of men who can’t stand the sight of someone living freely. I want my readers to know that Sibley was… Continue reading
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The Great American Grovel-Off During Cabinet Meetings
Today I read these lines by Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realized how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge. If only…. I later read online that the Trump cabinet had a meeting… Continue reading
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Francesca Hong Has Democrats Talking, Does She Have The ‘Big Mo’?
In 1980, when politics seemed more tame and polite, in comparison to what we have dealt with over the past decade, there was a term that almost all reporters and political analysts were fond of using. “The Big Mo” was famously coined by George H.W. Bush after he defeated Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucuses,… Continue reading
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Sanity Reigns, Fluoride Back In DeForest Water Supply
Every community has its characters, but DeForest’s brief flirtation with anti‑fluoride fervor was a master class in what happens when logic takes a sabbatical and leaves the keys under the mat. For a stretch of time, the village’s drinking water policy was effectively held hostage by people who believed that decades of public‑health science could… Continue reading
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