Voices for Change

In severity of health damage, media staying power, and political indefensibility, the Flint, MI lead poisoning looms as a national turning point. What disgrace better spotlights Republican government poisoning one hundred thousand of its own people -- failed austerity at its worst? Rarely does stupid and wasteful, if not immoral, merge so dramatically.

“This might be interpreted across the far right as a type of permission slip to do this kind of thing or to seek out altercations in this way.”

So don’t believe the media narrative that Congress is trapped in hopeless gridlock and both sides are to blame.

I think that many of the postal services provided would be handled better in other ways. And I would say the same thing about booksellers. And newspaper publishers.

America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.

Is the Trump nightmare finally ending?

Trump’s illiteracy, lack of self-discipline and insatiable greed are profound faults.

Instead of criticizing the European Commission for forcing Apple to pay up, American politicians ought to be thanking Europe for standing up to Apple.

By the time the Trump nightmare is over in 2024, the country, like its by then water-logged coastlines, will be hard to recognize.

People will remember that a President of the United States profited from his presidency long after they’ve forgotten those hotel sex stories.