What Now? Trump Must Go; Right-Wing Terror Threat Must Be Taken Seriously

Keith GirardJanuary 7, 2021

President Trump has pushed the country to the edge with repeated and outlandish claims of election fraud, to the point of inciting a riot...

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Donald Trump is a threat to democracy on par with dictators past and present. (Photo: NYI Collage)

Trump Attack on Democracy is Nothing Less than Treason; It’s Time to Say It

David FaginDecember 11, 2020

As sad as it is to say, it must now be said: The President of the United States is a traitor. ...

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Trump, GOP Create a Debt Bomb as Deficit Swells From Massive Corporate Tax Cuts

Trump Shameless Corruption Enabled by Flawed Indictment, Pardon Precedents

David FaginDecember 2, 2020

Donald Trump is shielded from indictment by a policy with no standing in law. (Photo: Getty) If I had a dime every time a 1973 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)...

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Racism is alive and well, if unspoken, in the tony suburbs of Austin, the heart of 'progressive Texas,' a recently transplanted LA couple say they found.

How Two LA Transplants Were Woke to Petty, Unspoken Racism in Idyllic Suburbia

Josh AaronJune 23, 2020

I want to start off by saying, the story I am about to tell is my personal experience. In no way should it detract from the hardships that people of color face every single day.,...

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Donald Trump is determined to create a right-wing autocracy. (Illustration NYI)

Trump an American Czar Nicholas, Isolated, Imperious in Face of Crisis

Keith GirardJune 1, 2020

Donald Trump’s presidency began on a low point and has been sinking deeper ever since, freighted by lies, half-baked policy decisions and gross incompetence. ...

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Donald Trump failure as president has been brought into focus by the COVID-19 crisis. (Photo: Getty)

Trump’s Presidency Was Always a Failure, Covid-19 Made It Glaringly Clear

Keith GirardApril 1, 2020

Donald Trump’s negligence as president becomes more and more glaring as COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop. He not only failed to act when he should have, he continues to mismanage the crisis....

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Trump was portrayed on Twitter as Thanos—an intergalactic space warrior who wants to annihilate billions of people. (Photo: ScreenShot)

Trump Gets Away With Murder on Twitter; When Will Double Standard End?

David FaginDecember 12, 2019

Last night, the nice folks at Twitter permanently suspended my account – again. For the fourth time. The previous three times I was kicked off the site were for trolling upstanding “patriots” Matt Gaetz, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, respectively....

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Donald Trump is refusing to use a critical federal law that could compel companies to produce desperately needed medical supplies. (Photo: Getty)

Congress Has Power to Jail Trump Officials Who Ignore Impeachment Subpoenas: It Should Use It

Keith GirardNovember 15, 2019

Top Trump officials who have refused subpoenas to testify in impeachment hearings should face a long-standing process as old as the nation itself. They should be held in contempt of Congress....

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Ben Stein a Disgrace to Judaism for Invoking Hitler to Slam Ocasio-Cortez

Keith GirardJanuary 23, 2019

Ben Stein is getting scourged on social media for comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Hitler (Photo by Chad J. McNeeley) Ben Stein long ago plunged into t...

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Donald Trump is shielded from indictment by a policy with no standing in law. (Photo: Getty)

Trump Goes Where No President Has Gone Before, Legitimizing a Grisly Dictator

Keith GirardJune 13, 2018

Donald Trump and his Fox News acolytes are describing the president’s summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as an historic event achieved by no other recent president. But his biggest accomplishment was legitimizing a grisly dictator with a duplicitous history and long string of human rights violations. No other president sought to dignify Kim, or any of his previous family-member leaders, because they realized it would represent a de-facto acceptance of his brutal regime....

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NFL Kneeling Rule Disrespects Players; Subverts Democracy to Placate Autocrat

Keith GirardMay 24, 2018

The National Football League (NFL), hoped to put to rest the controversy over kneeling players, by ginning up a new rule that would fine teams and those who kneel during the pre-game National Anthem. The NFL did just the opposite. The league showed total ignorance about what really makes this country great, subverting Democracy in the process. The move is clearly meant to placate Donald Trump, who blew up the issue into a national brouhaha with his misguided criticism of the players....

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