Neil Visalvanich, Durham University Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer”, Michael Cohen, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of fraud, among other crimes, and has implicated the president himself in wrongdoing. Speaking about payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels and others, supposedly to keep them quiet about alleged affairs with the … [Read more...] about How Donald Trump can survive Michael Cohen’s decision to turn on him
UN expert says Trump’s Iran sanctions are illegitimate and causing silent deaths
President Donald Trump’s snap-back sanctions against Iran are illegitimate, unjust and harmful, a United Nations expert said today. They are causing silent deaths in hospitals from lack of medicines. He applauded European and international efforts to tackle “this injustice” and prevent the world from becoming “a battleground for generalized economic war.” Idriss Jazairy, … [Read more...] about UN expert says Trump’s Iran sanctions are illegitimate and causing silent deaths
Ding Dong, The Witch Hunt is Dead!
Future Ex-President Donald J. Trump reeled from a double blow yesterday. Paul Manafort, his bargain-basement campaign manager, was convicted of eight counts of fraud. At almost the same time, Michael Cohen, his fixer, pled guilty to tax fraud and making illegal campaign contributions — to Stormy Daniels, a five-tool player in the porn industry, and Kathy McDougal, a Playboy … [Read more...] about Ding Dong, The Witch Hunt is Dead!
Harassment Investigation Procedures in the Age of #MeToo: An Interview
This article was republished with permission from So Well, So Woman, where it first appeared here. Women have made great strides over the past year or so in bringing to light the complicated and sensitive topic of sexual harassment in the workplace. In the wake of the start of #MeToo, #TimesUp and similar movements, many are asking: what changes have been made, and what … [Read more...] about Harassment Investigation Procedures in the Age of #MeToo: An Interview
The GOP turns to toilets to suppress more black voters
WASHINGTON -- It warms the heart to see the newfound concern that Georgia has for its disabled residents. Election overseers were worried sick that the disabled in Randolph County, a rural hamlet where 60 percent of residents are black and nearly a third live in poverty, might arrive at their polling place and find they had to park on grass or, worse, that there was no … [Read more...] about The GOP turns to toilets to suppress more black voters
Democratic Party Promoting Hate
The Democratic Party is losing members because of the hate within. That is the gist of Karin McQuillan's commentary Nice Ladies Leaving the Democratic Party. Here are excerpts: Democrats are leaving their party more in sorrow than in anger, but leaving it they are, sickened by the Democratic Party’s hard left turn. Tens of thousands are telling their stories on the … [Read more...] about Democratic Party Promoting Hate
Cartoon: Michael Cohen the Fixer
Social Media Reaction to Trump’s Cohen Manafort Double Strike Out
Social media has been running at warp speed in light of Donald Trump's Michael Cohen/Paul Manafort double legal strike out. A sampling: NYT page one: "PLEADING GUILTY, COHEN IMPLICATES PRESIDENT" pic.twitter.com/wujKjUr17x— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 22, 2018 BIG DAY: We have learned that we have a criminal President of the United States, who … [Read more...] about Social Media Reaction to Trump’s Cohen Manafort Double Strike Out
Cartoon: Cohen
(UPDATES) Will August 21 Be the Day When America Woke Up?
UPDATE I: The post below is about the game-changing judicial and political events that occurred on August 21. Comments have been made here about the tragic murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal immigrant. But, more important, the president used Tibbetts’ death –- on the same day that his former lawyer, under oath, “implicated Mr. Trump in a possible crime,” -- to try … [Read more...] about (UPDATES) Will August 21 Be the Day When America Woke Up?
Truth Is Indeed Truth As Cohen Fingers Trump & Manafort Faces Life In Prison
August 21, 2018 will long be remembered as a spectacularly huge day for truth, justice and the rule of law as the tide finally turned against Donald Trump and, one by one, all of the president's men began to go down. Michael Cohen, the president's longtime fixer and personal lawyer, entering a guilty plea in a Manhattan courtroom to eight violations of banking, tax and … [Read more...] about Truth Is Indeed Truth As Cohen Fingers Trump & Manafort Faces Life In Prison
Great Music Chapter 19
This week we return to the more conventional field of music, Classical. This week’s composer is the Norwegian, Edvard Grieg. Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843 he learned the piano from his mother who was a piano teacher. He began his piano studies at age 6 and quickly became proficient. A violinist friend of the family persuaded them to send Edvard to the famous Leipzig … [Read more...] about Great Music Chapter 19
Mike Peters Guest Cartoon: Trump’s Military Space Force
OF RELATED INTEREST: --Concerns grow about Space Force diverting funds from other military priorities --Trump Wants a Space Force, But Pentagon Has Different Idea Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist. His favorite expression “WHAT A HOOT” certainly sums up his … [Read more...] about Mike Peters Guest Cartoon: Trump’s Military Space Force
Another Symbol of Wickedness Eliminated
Symbols of wickedness can be eliminated two ways. In the city of Tulsa, a symbol of wickedness has been eliminated the right way. From the Tulsa World: Three-hundred seventy-two days after Tulsa Public Schools began evaluating its school names in the wake of the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the district no longer has a school named for … [Read more...] about Another Symbol of Wickedness Eliminated
Advertising is obsolete – here’s why it’s time to end it
Advertising is obsolete – here's why it's time to end it Ramsi Woodcock, University of Kentucky Since it first became clear that Russian agents spent thousands of dollars a month on political advertising on social media in the runup to the 2016 presidential election, Americans have been asking how the powerful advertising infrastructure run by Google and Facebook could … [Read more...] about Advertising is obsolete – here’s why it’s time to end it
Truth IS Truth
WASHINGTON -- Whenever the Trump administration ends, we already have its shameful epitaph: "Truth isn't truth." President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made that unintentional confession of method and purpose Sunday on "Meet the Press." From the beginning of the campaign, this whole enterprise has been a lie, a fraud, a grift, a cruel deception -- a sustained and … [Read more...] about Truth IS Truth
Advanced therapy methods are creating new hope for children with disabilities
For kids with developmental delays or mental or physical conditions associated with a likelihood of delays, physical, occupational and drug therapies can help improve cognitive, motor, communication and sensory skills. These therapies focus on enhancing development and minimizing delays — depending on the goals of each family and the needs of each child — to help them lead … [Read more...] about Advanced therapy methods are creating new hope for children with disabilities
John Oliver Helping Trump Understand Trade (Video)
Caveat: Just as I know beans about medicine, I "know nothing" about economics, in particular trade. However, that does not keep me from enjoying – and sharing with readers – a hilarious performance by John Oliver on Sunday’s "Last Week Tonight" where Oliver schools Trump and his head of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro, on trade. Who knows, … [Read more...] about John Oliver Helping Trump Understand Trade (Video)
4 reasons why anti-Trump Latino voters won’t swing the midterms
4 reasons why anti-Trump Latino voters won't swing the midterms Latinos make up 12 percent of people eligible to vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Flickr/Erik Hersman, CC BY-SA Steffen W. Schmidt, Iowa State University The Democratic Party shouldn’t count on Latinos swinging many midterm races their way this … [Read more...] about 4 reasons why anti-Trump Latino voters won’t swing the midterms
Slouching towards autocracy
WASHINGTON -- In their book, "How Democracies Die," political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write: "How do elected authoritarians shatter the democratic institutions that are supposed to constrain them? Some do it in one fell swoop. But more often, the assault on democracy begins slowly. ... The erosion of democracy takes place piecemeal, often in baby … [Read more...] about Slouching towards autocracy