by Thomas Mills | Aug 23, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog
The New York Times posted a short video about vaccine hesitancy in Arkansas where COVID is spreading quickly and hospitals are getting overwhelmed. There are a lot of reasons people shun the vaccine, but they have a common thread of misinformation combined with...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 20, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
North Carolina may be the nation’s largest exporter of right-wing nut jobs to Washington. Yesterday, a guy from Grover drove to DC claiming to have a bomb in his truck and threatened to detonate it unless Biden resigned. Back in 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 18, 2021 | coronavirus |
I’m not going to say that Republicans hate kids or want them to die, but I will say that they are pandering to their anti-vax, anti-mask base instead of prioritizing the health of our children. Republican governors are not just banning mask mandates, they are...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 17, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, Joe Biden nailed it. He stood before the American people and talked to them like adults about a very difficult situation. He explained what he is doing in Afghanistan and why. He took responsibility for what’s happening while admitting that the scenes we’re...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 16, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
The fall of Afghanistan has been ugly and surprisingly quick, but hardly surprising. For years, I’ve assumed what we are seeing now would come to pass at some point. Americans are tired of being in a country that seems to have no resolution to its civil war. I...