Tag: State’s Rights

Yesterday, in his ongoing fight to punish California for voting against him, President Donald Trump announced that he was removing California’s waiver to impose stricter automobile emission standards than the federal requirements. Unsurprisingly some of his rationales don’t make any sense but he made them just the same. “The Trump…

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes Ron Paul to the woodshed over his position on the abolition of slavery.  It’s a thing of beauty… For those who don’t know, Ron Paul was not OK with freeing the slaves through the Civil War.  It represented an illegitimate theft of private property from the southern…

All too seldom do we get an unobstructed glimpse through a fog of obfuscation, hand waving and denial and into the racist core of modern conservatism.  It’s a view of and America grounded in slavery, Jim Crow and the segregated South.  An America without regard to justice, fairness, equality or…