What You May Have Missed
Complete the jigsaw with Thom's articles you may have missed this week
Are We Standing On the Edge Of a Grand New Progressive Era?
The GOP has embraced the oligarchic strong-man police-state & the Democratic Party is returning to its progressive & populist roots -- we face a moment of great danger & one of great opportunity.
Are “Free Trade” & “Monopoly-Is-Okay” the Cause of Our Current Inflation?
Inflation is not Biden’s fault and I’d argue what my wife threatens to put on my tombstone: that “it all started with Reagan.”
Is Fox News "The Greatest Cancer on American Democracy"?
If our media and body politic are infected with a cancer it’s time to isolate it so it can’t further harm our democracy and, by extension, the democracies of the world.
It's Past Time For Democrats To Defy the Supreme Court
Congress should stand up for what’s right and "legally bribed politicians" isn’t that: it's time to end the bribery & get something done for the people, for a change.
The Deadly Omicron News for Trump-Humpers Laid Bare
Science doesn’t lie - A true sh*tstorm is on its way, and it’s going to hit red-county Trump voters like the climate change hurricanes just hit Kentucky.
Saturday Report 12/18/21 "Ode to Sean Hannity" (Paid Subscriber Benefit)
The Best of the Rest of the News.
Sunday Book Excerpt: ADHD - A Hunter in a Farmer's World (Paid Subscriber Benefit)
Two excerpts from a book that changed the worlds of education, psychiatry, and psychology by suggesting that neurological differences are not necessarily mental diseases and can actually be assets.
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Merrick Garland is a right-wing partisan hack, and Biden should fire him Monday morning!
OMFG! Heresy! After all, didn’t he say that he was apolitical and would keep politics out of his decisions? Why, yes, he did. And that is why he should be fired — for directly lying to the American people! For a person is judged by his or her actions, not hollow words.
He is deliberately allowing a Republican, one-party takeover of our democracy by not aggressively charging and prosecuting the top people — Traitor Trump and his lackey lieutenants — responsible for planning and instigating an insurrection and, now, an insurgency spreading across every corner of the country. It is a very conscious decision NOT to act according to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the principle that no one is above the law in the face of such overwhelming evidence.
Neither can he plead ignorance, that he is unaware of the consequences of his inaction (action by a different name), nor that he is being guided by some higher personal ethical doctrine, which, if so, would be contrary to every legal precept imaginable. Nope, this highly educated student of law, who graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School AND became the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit, knows exactly what he is doing (and not doing).
It is time for the fourth rail of government, a media protected by the First Amendment, to call out this little weasel, a Trump Republican through and through, a judgement admitted by his own partisan and despicable behavior. “Moderate” — my ass! Department of Justice — hahahahahahahahaha!
Anyway, Merrick Garland is the biggest missing piece smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle.