“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.” That has President of the United States written all over it. Anyone else daring to utter those lines would at a minimum be branded un-American […]
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U.S. Healthcare: Getting Less for More
Once upon a time in the bad old twentieth century, any American family caught dead without its very own funeral plot would be publicly shamed. That changed as Americans began to believe that living in the world’s sole superpower made them invincible. Having a funeral plot at the ready seemed unnecessary. According to disturbing reports […]
Take the Oil and Run: Clinton and Trump Agree
Suspicious Angels Readers: You heard it here first! The whole unvarnished truth, not the half-truths and omissions dictated by the ideological bias of the mainstream media. In October, 2016, we published “Take the Oil and Run” a rebuke to the “paper of record’s” (NY Times) assertion that Trump was the sole cheerleader behind the proposal […]
Where Have All The Protestors Gone?
(For A Shorter Read Scroll Down To The BLUE FONT) “Where have all the soldiers gone Gone to graveyards, everyone Oh, when will they ever learn?” Ferment in the streets. College campuses ablaze with marches, demonstrations and sit-ins. It’s a blast from the past. In 1964, the first major demonstration […]
The War Comes Home: Violence and Death on America’s Streets
Police shoot woman who called 911 to report a suspected sexual assault outside her home. Another addition to the rapidly mounting toll of victims of police brutality. Whatever happened to “serve and protect?” To try and make sense of the bedlam on America’s streets, we are reprinting “The War Comes Home: Violence and Death on […]
The Unmasking of Justice Gorsuch
Updates to: Be Careful What You Wish For: More Magical Thinking in the Age of Trump/Gorsuch “Magical Thinking: Supreme Court Justices and the Presidents Who Pick Them” As the Supreme Court prepared to decamp for its summer hiatus, the flock of decisions they issued and the cases they agreed to hear in the Fall pretty […]
An UPDATE on Robert Mueller’s Checkered Past
Update on: The Two Bags of Robert Mueller Like the proverbial cat, Robert Mueller has nine lives. Every time it looks like justice has caught up with him, he escapes to reign another tyrannical day. This time it was the Supreme Court that saved his bacon. On June 20, the Court issued […]
Drug Companies: Killing Americans in the Name of Profits
(FOR A QUICKER SHORTER READ SCROLL DOWN TO THE BLUE FONT) Know how you can tell when an empire is going to hell? When its future depends on a bunch of junkies. Too harsh a judgment? Read on. Quality of life issues abound in today’s America. Lead poisoning causing irreversible brain damage to thousands of […]
So You think You Own that Chevy Sitting in Your Driveway? Think Again
It’s a red-letter day for you. Staring in wonderment at that precious title to your new car (well, maybe it’s not so new now) that has taken you 5 years to own. But the car is finally yours, the loan company relinquished their part-ownership when you sent in your last payment. That title is your […]
America Gets Her Grouch On (AGAIN)
It should come as no surprise to “tweeters,” internet readers, and television devotees that the American taste for light comedy and objective journalism has been replaced by a rapacious, “take-no-prisoners,” mentality. In the age of Trump, this development has evolved in accord with the rise and fall and rise again of the Trump phenomenon. First […]
