The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Isn’t it about time someone did a take down on the Internet meme? If we truly want to change people’s attitudes and create a more just world, what the world needs is scientifically objective journalism, not more partisan viruses of the mind being spread in all the…
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Injustice Has Become An Epidemic: We Need A Change In Attitudes
By Scott Lander – Grassroots organizations are rising up all over the nation to combat this plague, which comes in many different forms. The Black Lives Matter movement is concerned with ending police brutality. The Occupy movement is exposing economic injustices. End Citizens United is purposed with getting money out of politics. People like Elon…
The Democrats Win the Summer
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The Democratic National Convention was a HUGE success, to borrow a term from Bernie Sanders. Compared to Trump’s D-list convention, the show in Philedelphia was a star studded Hollywood affair complete with fireworks, red, white and blue balloons with stars on them, and with Sanders himself placing…
After 9/11: Clinton Helped First Responders, Trump Grabbed Federal Money
By Dick Polman – Unlike their Republican counterparts, Democrats tend not to wallow in the sewer with infantile chants like “Lock Her Up.” Instead, they simply whacked Donald Trump with substance throughout their four day convention in Philadelphia. Take for instance New York congressman Joe Crowley, who assailed Trump for grabbing federal money that was…
Oliver Stone Warns Against Surveillance Capitalism and ‘Pokémon Go’
EDITORS NOTE – I knew there was something fishy about this Pokemon game. – By Jordan Riefe – Controversy and Oliver Stone have never been strange bedfellows. He courted it with movies like âJFK,â âNixonâ and âNatural Born Killers,â and last week, he made headlines in the unlikely milieu of Comic-Con, where he spoke about…
Governor Bentley Calls Special Session For Lottery Vote
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — While the greatest political show on earth was going on live from Philedelphia on the Internet and most television news channels, with one of the greatest orators to ever occupy the Oval Office addressing the Democratic National Convention and calling on the election of Hillary Clinton to be…
Bernie Sanders Nominates Hillary Clinton for President
Will the American public buy Bill Clinton’s version of reality or Donald Trump’s Idiocracy? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It was a historic moment on Day Two of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia when Senator Bernie Sanders stood up with the Vermont delegation to place Hillary Clinton’s name into nomination…
Democrats Put on Real Political Show in Philly
Can Hillary Convince Voters She’s the Optimistic Candidate?
By John L. Micek – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – After four days of doom and gloom in Donald Trump’s America, Democrats have a deceptively simple task to accomplish with their convention this week: Namely, convincing broad swaths of voters that Hillary Clinton and her new running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, possess the right mix…
Donald Trump Could Be the Next President of the United States
By Alan Minsky – This is madness. Fully predictable madness. One archetype of the American experience is now realized. We’ve always had our carnival hucksters and itinerant preachers and snake oil thieves. P.T. Barnum put on a good show. All sought wealth and power. But never before has one risen so high as Donald J.…
Analysis: Comparing and Contrasting the Republican and Democratic Party Platforms
EDITORS NOTE – We thought it might be interesting and informative to compare and contrast the Democratic Party and Republican Party platforms for 2016. Here is our analysis of some key similarities and differences. We welcome your comments below. By Glynn Wilson – For starters, the Republican Party Platform Preamble begins with a categorical statement:…
Republican Party Platform 2016 Preamble
EDITORS NOTE – We thought it might be interesting and informative to compare the Democratic Party and Republican Party platforms for 2016. Check out the preamble to the Republican Party platform. It reads like an editorial statement of the party’s positions on issues. The link to the full platform as a PDF file is posted…
Democratic Party Platform 2016 Preamble
EDITORS NOTE – We thought it might be interesting and informative to compare the Democratic Party and Republican Party platforms for 2016. For starters, check out the preamble to the Democratic Party platform. It reads like an editorial statement of the party’s positions on issues. The link to the full platform as a PDF file…
Six Factors that Gave Us Trump
By Peter Funt – With Donald Trump basking in the Republican convention glow, tortured analysis persists among those seeking to explain how he ever got this far. A recurring view has it that Americans are fed up with politicians and now want an “outsider” to run things. Also, there’s the notion that it will take…
Trump Knocks One Out of the Park in Cleveland
It was a doozy of a speech, full of iffy facts and false promises. But they loved it… By Glynn Wilson – While many of my liberal and progressive Democrat friends say on Facebook they could not watch Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention Thursday night, or if they did, they called it…
The Reluctant Embrace of Trump
By John L. Micek – CLEVELAND, Oh. – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican, wanted to talk about a bunch of stuff during his primetime address at the Republican National Convention. But Donald Trump wasn’t high on that list. He barely mentioned him at all. Instead, the ever-wonkish Ryan focused on the House…
Late-Night Comedians on Trump and Clinton
By Tom Purcell – This presidential campaign is the nuttiest in my lifetime but at least America is maintaining its sense of humor. Late-night comics have found a treasure trove of material in Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He’s been mocked three times as often as any other candidate throughout the campaign. Many of the…
In A Post-Literate Society, Trump Might As Well Be President
So Newhouse Gave Us Trump: Now They Will Profit by Taking Him Down?
Media Incest On Display: Will Anyone Notice? The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On the eve of the Republican convention in Cleveland Ohio, a remarkable thing happened. No, not another police shooting. Not just a tell all article about Donald Trump. It is an event that should send shock waves through the capitalist…