Author: Thom Hartmann

Why Democratic leadership is suffering from a serious deficiency of outrage against Trump’s corruption

Hunter Biden traded on his father’s name to get positions on boards of directors that paid him millions, but there is no evidence he ever harmed American foreign policy or American interests. Jared Kushner, though, appears to have been paid $2 billion by the Saudis for steering his father-in-law’s administration away from the Khashoggi murder and toward millions in congressionally banned weaponry to further destroy Yemen. Now the Saudis, apparently still collaborating with the Trump family, are refusing to increase oil production so that high prices at the pump will politically damage President Biden and Democrats in the elections...

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A Bizarre Silence: Why Republicans want to “save the children” until the issue of guns is mentioned

We have the resources to deal with childhood injuries and deaths from the only product sold in America specifically designed to kill human beings, and it is now the leading cause of deaths in children. Nina Shapiro reported at Forbes in an article titled The Leading Cause Of Death In Children And Youths Is Now Guns: “Access to firearms by children, by unlicensed owners, and absence of safety measures when it comes to both intentional and unintentional gun-related injuries and deaths, are among the reasons that the incidence of this horrific, truly avoidable tragedy is on the rise.” The...

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The “Browning” of America: Anti-Abortion efforts are fundamentally about a shortage of White babies

The abortion battle is not just about religion. We are also watching the last ages of White Supremacy, and it is scaring the hell out of White people who have bought into the racist belief that “others” are fundamentally different and inferior. This firestorm around abortion is another dimension of the White freak-out about the browning of America that stretches from the days of slavery through 19th century “scientific racism” to Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve:,America is no longer all-White or all-under-White-control. And the White Supremacists are bound and determined to do something about it. For example, a...

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Entrenched political lies: Why calls to end democracy with Martial Law are the ultimate “Big Government”

Some say the Republican Party has gone nuts. In reality, they have simply reached the endpoint toward which they have been moving for 62 years: Fascism. Republican politicians since Barry Goldwater’s 1960 campaign have trash-talked “big government” in the United States. Like Reagan’s assertions that cutting taxes on rich people would “trickle down” benefits to poor people, or his claim that destroying labor unions would increase take-home pay for working people, this one’s just another lie. Since the 1980s, in fact, the GOP has been the ultimate “big government” party. And now we are learning that Republicans in Congress...

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When secular laws that support human rights for all are unraveled by arbitrary religious beliefs of a few

Democrats are generally disinclined to discuss religion, much less debate it. They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were famously atheist, Jefferson and dozens of other high-profile people in the Founding generation were deists, and that in two different places the Constitution explicitly rejects religion interfering with government or vice-versa. But it is time to discuss religion whether we like it or not, because it is no longer knocking on our door: Sam Alito just sent it into the house with a no-knock warrant and stun grenades that threaten to catch the place on fire....

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Packing the Court: Long-term legal strategy is fundamental to protecting the rights of women

Politico reported that the Supreme Court has already voted to strike down Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and possibly even Griswold v Connecticut. The decision is in draft form, but expected to be released this summer. The GOP first set this as a goal in 1981 with the election of Ronald Reagan who, prior to cutting a cynical deal with Jerry Falwell for church help in the 1980 election, had signed the most liberal abortion law in the nation as California governor. Now it appears their 41-year campaign has reached its fruition. This is the first...

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