by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 15, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then, there have been at least mass shootings, with at least people killed...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2017 | • Politics, The Democrats
This is why conservatives win: George Lakoff explains the importance of framing – and what Democrats need to learn In 1996, cognitive linguist George Lakoff released ” Moral Politics,” a book that should have utterly transformed our understanding of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Donald Trump Has No Plan for Making America Great Again There is no Trump infrastructure plan. There is no Trump tax plan. There is no Trump health care...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 13, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Yesterday there was this remarkable display of sycophants singing their praises to President Trump that struck me as being strangely reminiscent of this episode in Iraq under Saddam Hussien in one of his Ba’ath Party assemblies (Saddam’s 1979 Baath Party...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 13, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Analysis | It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class. Media coverage of the 2016 election often emphasized Donald Trump’s appeal to the working class. The Atlantic said that “the billionaire developer is building a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 12, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | Trump and the True Meaning of ‘Idiot’ In a recent Quinnipiac University poll, respondents were asked what word immediately came to mind when they thought of Donald Trump: The No. 1 response was “idiot.” This was followed by...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 12, 2017 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump
More On Thunderf00t… Thunderf00t is a somewhat controversial figure in the skeptical and Atheist communities and you can read about him in his RationalWiki profile and start to draw your own conclusions and opinions about him. Regradless of what you end up...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
…the pundits are all missing the point: the Trump-Sanders phenomenon signals an American oligarchy on the brink of a civilization-threatening collapse. Why Trump Phenomenon Signals an Oligarchy on the Brink of a Civilization-Threatening Collapse –...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
How health insurance changed from protecting patients to seeking profit Transformative technologies rapidly spread across the developed world. Abbott Laboratories made and patented the first intravenous anesthetic, thiopental, in the 1930s. Massachusetts General...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 10, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | Study: Conservatives despise the fact-checking industry Sometimes anecdotage agrees with data. For years, the antennae of the Erik Wemple Blog have been detecting a plume of negativity from conservative commentators and websites about the work of reporters...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 8, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s presidency is an American crisis America isn’t being made great. It’s being made...
