Hugh Hewitt, a right wing radio personality and pundit, is one of the current masters of “whataboutism.” This term refers to the excuse that Trump supporters use whenever their hero yet again does something heinous (Yeah, Trump did this but what about….). The most current version of this is Hewitt’s and others’ claims that Trump’s rhetoric has nothing to do with the most recent episodes of political violence and domestic terrorism. Hewitt’s Argument (from the Washington Post) “After the arrest of a Florida man for sending homemade bombs to former president Barack… Read more The Problem of “whataboutism” and False Equivalence in Recent Commentary on Violence →
[a thought provoking contribution by George] On Saturday, Robert Bowers, an avowed white nationalist and anti-Semite, brutally slaughtered 11 people as they worshiped at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in… Read more WHEN, IF EVER, WILL ENOUGH BE ENOUGH? →
The latest NBC/Wall Street poll has Delusional Donald at his lowest approval rating point yet in the low 30s. It is a bizarre outlier. Our Petulant President has rocked along… Read more Our Petulant President in Quinnipiac’s August Poll →
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently performed analyses indicating that nursing homes have over-reported their staffing, especially on weekends, for decades. The importance of this deceptive practice is that staffing… Read more Putting the Most Vulnerable Among Us at Risk for Profits →
From George: As our Warlock-n-Chief is fond of saying, the Special Counsel investigation may be ”the greatest witch hunt in history” – and, I might add, the most successful. Robert Mueller has just delivered another load of witches. The response by the White House communications people traveling with Trump was astounding for its totally narcissistic focus on the fact that the indictment didn’t say that anyone in Trump’s orbit was named. It offered not even one word of condemnation of Russia for its blatant attack on the very basis… Read more THE WITCH HUNT →
Inconsolable grief recently filled ten thousand square feet of US Capitol lawn. In that area, people had placed 7,000 pairs of empty shoes, each pair representing a child killed by… Read more Empty Shoes and The Politics of Firearm Safety →
When you think the NRA can’t get any crazier, they just sink farther toward the bottom of the swamp. They recently named Oliver North (Yes, the Iran-Contra North) as their… Read more Welcome to NRA Newspeak — Civil Terrorism →
People – men, women and children – living in the United State are 25 times more likely to die from being shot than those living in all of the other industrial nations combined. There would seem to be but three explanations for our abysmal status. First, Americans could be crazier than those in the other industrialized nations – maybe possessing up to 25 times the mental health problems. Although greater attention to mental health would be good for our country, mental health doesn’t hold water as a explanation for our… Read more Sensible Gun Safety Proposals from George →
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