Trump Federal Judge Appointee Blocks Biden Border Plan: Judge Should Be Defrocked.

Defrocked, right? I mean they still wear those silly robes. And I am using the Trump label only because it is front and center in the news and just like labeling electeds as D or R, apparently it is de rigueur to identify federal judges by the president who appointed…

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So Are US Governors Allowed To Do Foreign Policy?

Cancelling his intense truck safety inspections at the Texas/Mexico border…an originally purported move to stop smuggling of drugs and humans…Texas Governor Greg Abbot announced that he had negotiated safety agreements with four Mexican border states. So, is an American governor actually allowed to negotiate foreign policy with foreign governments? OR…

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That Day in Lattimer

By Steve Carlson and Lynn Sutherland Jaskowiak One of the bloodiest days in American labor history occurred on the outskirts of Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on Friday, September 10th, 1897. Roughly 400 anthracite coal miners ( the vast majority of them foreign born eastern Europeans) had had enough of the darkened servitude…

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Jamaal Bowman Channels Smedley Butler

In an extraordinary and almost entirely unreported act of political courage, freshman New York congressman Jamaal Bowman told CNN last Sunday night that decades of American capitalism and imperialism in Central America are responsible for the flood of immigrants coming to our southern border. When’s the last time you heard…

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Yes, Lt. Colonel, the US IS Just Like Russia:

“In Russia, my act of expressing my concerns to the chain of command in an official and private channel would have severe personal and professional repercussions and offering public testimony involving the president would surely cost me my life,” he said. “Do not worry, I will be fine for telling…

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About That American Contractor and What Trump Left Unsaid.

In the past month we’ve seen an incredible number of dangerous events transpire in Iraq…between the United States and Iran…originally over the death of an American contractor. But despite the president’s actions in Iraq and his pronouncements via Twitter…he left some important things unsaid: It has been almost three weeks…

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Nikki Haley Out Of Touch With Meaning of Confederate Flag

For a woman of color to try to defend the continued display of the Confederate Flag is simply beyond the realm of belief. But yet, here we are with the former Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, saying just that. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley…

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Question: So What Is Thanksgiving Anyway?

Well you may have heard the president stated that there is a war on Thanksgiving. Not sure what he’s talking about. But yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published two different takes on Thanksgiving, and I want to share them now because it confused me and I’d like your thoughts and opinions….

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Catching Up On the MKE County Executive Race

From the email this morning…former candidate for governor, Matt Flynn, has endorsed Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy for Milwaukee County Executive: I am excited to support the campaign of my good friend Bryan Kennedy for Milwaukee County Executive.  Bryan was my campaign manager in 2018 and he shares my progressive values….

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Maybe It’s Because They Are People of Color?

Yes…the USA was ‘hit’ by a hurricane…but parts of the Bahamas don’t even exist anymore. We can’t vet people at the border? I am pretty sure that we can…we do it every day at hundreds of ports of entry. It’s not like that ferry is going to drop them at…

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