by Thomas Mills | Dec 21, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Back in the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was telling us that tax cuts for the wealthy would trickle down to the rest of us and promote broad prosperity, I saw a political cartoon in a left wing magazine that had a crude image of Uncle Sam pissing on a map of the...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 18, 2020 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
When Democrats push back against GOP tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, Republicans always tell us, “It’s not the government’s money; it’s the people’s money” and they’re returning it to its rightful owners. Now that the state of North Carolina has put $5.5 billion...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 16, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
State Senator Bob Steinberg gives us insight into exactly how crazy the right has become. In an interview with WRAL, he told reporter Travis Fain that he believes in a broad, international conspiracy to steal the election from Donald Trump. He can offer no evidence of...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 15, 2020 | Editor's Blog
The Electoral College declared Joe Biden the winner of this year’s presidential election. For rational people, it was no surprise. For too many Republicans, it was the continuation of a huge conspiracy to steal the election from the American people. They’ve never...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 14, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
The Supreme Court delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump and his lawyers. In a unanimous decision, the court declined to hear the case that Trump thought would overturn the election. It wasn’t just a rejection of Trump; it was a message to the Republican...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 11, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
The party of Reagan is dead, killed by a would-be authoritarian and his anti-democratic cabal of Republican elected officials. The members of the GOP who oppose Donald Trump’s attempted coup are harassed, threatened, and mocked in clear violation of Reagan’s...
