When President Trump autographed Bibles while visiting an Alabama church last week, some reacted with dismay. They shouldn't have. There is nothing more natural than Trump putting his name in the Bible. The man is a prophet! With the assurance of Jeremiah, the clairvoyance of a seer and the prolificacy of a bookie, Trump has peered into his crystal ball and foretold … [Read more...] about Trump is a prophet!
Trump’s budget is heartless and whackadoodle
By CATHERINE RAMPELL Washington Post Writers Group Fair enough: President Trump's heartless and whackadoodle budget, released on Monday, will never actually become law. Even when his party had unified control of government, he couldn't get Capitol Hill to take major portions of his budget terribly seriously. Still, a president's budget plan is a statement of his … [Read more...] about Trump’s budget is heartless and whackadoodle
Don’t Let the Ilhan Omar Fight Hide Two Essential Truths
Criticism of Israel—and AIPAC—isn't anti-semitic By Michael Winship The other night, I was watching an NBC News report on the thousands of endangered red-crowned cranes whose migration route takes them through the DMZ between North and South Korea. Amidst land mines and other dangers, they somehow manage to survive. Right now, I feel a little bit like one of those … [Read more...] about Don’t Let the Ilhan Omar Fight Hide Two Essential Truths
Whose Your Deity (Cartoon, Column and Video)
Donald Trump’s fifth communications director has quit. Bill Shine was an executive at Fox News, from where Trump does most of his hiring. Trump believed Shine would be able to make all media coverage of him to be more like what he gets from Fox. Failing to get the Tucker Hannity Ingraham treatment for Trump on CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times, Trump soured … [Read more...] about Whose Your Deity (Cartoon, Column and Video)
AMA says hog-tying Title X will catalyze a “national public health crisis”
While Ivanka Trump waxes political about creating more business opportunities for women, her father recently took further action to limit female success by denying them reproductive healthcare access. The Trump Administration recently gutted the ability of millions of women to receive the healthcare and education they need to plan their families — and the inability to control … [Read more...] about AMA says hog-tying Title X will catalyze a “national public health crisis”
Cartoon: Honest Abe
France’s ‘everyday sexism’ starts at school
Smartphones have put the tools for bullying and voyeurism in the pockets of schoolchildren. Baruska/Pixabay, CC BY Bérengère Stassin, Université de Lorraine In France, the #MeToo movement has a livelier name: #BalanceTonPorc, or “Name and Shame Your Pig.” It inspired hundreds of women to denounce sexual harassment on the streets and in the boardroom. … [Read more...] about France’s ‘everyday sexism’ starts at school
Only one thing can save Trump now: Democrats
President Trump has done his level best to tank his presidency. The trade and budget deficits are soaring, his legal woes are mushrooming, his North Korea policy collapsed, Democrats beat him on the border wall and the Republican Senate is poised to rebuke him. There is only one thing that can save him now: Democrats. And, on cue, here they come. Democrats, after … [Read more...] about Only one thing can save Trump now: Democrats
Let’s stay united against bigotry
WASHINGTON -- The polling is imperfect, but it's fair to say that more than 70 percent of American Jews and Muslims vote Democratic. They do so, in part, because Democrats have spoken out strongly against both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. And now, both groups are horrified by Trumpism's embrace of discrimination against Muslims and its trafficking in … [Read more...] about Let’s stay united against bigotry
Netanyahu’s True Colors Now Show
Bibi Netanyahu showed his true colors today with the following statement: Israel “is the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.” For those of us who know Israel know that the vast majority of Israelis know this to be true. Whether Jewish or Palestinian, this is the reality of daily life in Israel and even more so in the West Bank and Gaza. … [Read more...] about Netanyahu’s True Colors Now Show
Eat Your Conspiracy (Cartoon, Column and Video)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the Democrat-controlled House Homeland Security Committee yesterday and insisted that the cages Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used to detain migrant and asylum-seeking kids aren’t really cages. She told Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, “Sir, they are not cages, they are areas of the border … [Read more...] about Eat Your Conspiracy (Cartoon, Column and Video)
How to distinguish a psychopath from a ‘shy-chopath
Ted Bundy, a day before his execution in January 1989. AP Photo/Mark Foley John Edens, Texas A&M University What makes a criminal a psychopath? Their grisly deeds and commanding presence attract our attention – look no further than Ted Bundy, the subject of a recent Netflix documentary, and cult leaders like Charles Manson. But despite years … [Read more...] about How to distinguish a psychopath from a ‘shy-chopath
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Trump has an atrocious report card, but will he fail with his voters?
WASHINGTON -- I've got the perfect slogan for President Trump's re-election campaign: "Promises Made, Promises Not Kept, But I'm Betting My Voters Are Too Stupid to Notice." Let's take stock: Trump promised to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border, with the cost of the "big, beautiful" barrier to be borne by Mexico. Trump made this pledge not once but dozens … [Read more...] about Trump has an atrocious report card, but will he fail with his voters?
Is Algeria Turning Green or Staying Red
Like a lot of the world, Algeria isn’t on America’s mental map: not our stone, not our shoe. But it’s getting attention in other, un-American places like the rest of the planet due to the restive natives who are well pissed off at nearly 60 years of communist mismanagement. The largest (peaceful to date) street protests in recent decades have erupted lately in the capital … [Read more...] about Is Algeria Turning Green or Staying Red
All Day Suckers (Cartoon, Column and Video)
Most people understand the National Enquirer isn’t a legitimate news organization. Until recently, most wouldn’t have thought it was propaganda. Most people believed it was nothing more than a gossip rag that got its headlines from stalking celebrities and going through their garbage. It seemed to spare nobody. Then, we learned they paid for stories (which credible news … [Read more...] about All Day Suckers (Cartoon, Column and Video)
3 ways activist kids these days resemble their predecessors
Yolanda Renee King, the grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr., alongside Jaclyn Corin, a Parkland survivor and activist. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine A gaggle of young activists recently paid Dianne Feinstein a visit at the senator’s San Francisco office, imploring her to support the Green New Deal framework … [Read more...] about 3 ways activist kids these days resemble their predecessors
Cartoonist Clay Jones Finalist in Herblock Prize for Editorial Cartooning
For the past several years The Moderate Voice has been blessed to use the superb editorial cartoons (and the superb columns and superb "Watch me draw" YouTube videos) of Clay Jones, a nationally syndicated columnist who ventured out on his own a few years ago to self-syndicate. As a result, it was a pleasure but not really a surprise to learn that Clay Jones was named finalist … [Read more...] about Cartoonist Clay Jones Finalist in Herblock Prize for Editorial Cartooning
As Erdogan turns away from the West, he sabotages Turkey’s progress
By DAVID IGNATIUS Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON -- For a scary snapshot of what a "post-American" world looks like, consider the rupture that has been developing through three administrations in the U.S.-Turkey relationship. Turkey has come to think it can call the shots, regardless of U.S. interests. The prime mover has been President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. … [Read more...] about As Erdogan turns away from the West, he sabotages Turkey’s progress
Remembering the Souls of MH370
It is the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 literally in(to) thin air. A tragedy that took the lives of 239 passengers and crew members. At the time – and for a while afterwards -- this author wrote so much about the tragedy and its aftermath that some readers got “sick and tired” of it. While the cause of the disappearance of the … [Read more...] about Remembering the Souls of MH370