Yesterday’s school massacre in Florida raises the question of America’s national sanity

By Robert A. Vella Yesterday at a Parkland, Florida high school, a young white nationalist named Nikolas Cruz went on Continue reading →

Sunday Potpourri: Secret UFO program, DEA and Big Pharma, Tax Reform update, what is Sexual Consent

By Robert A. Vella These are strange times we’re living in.  The following four stories in the news today are Continue reading →

US lawmakers are redistributing income from the poor to the rich, according to massive new study

Back in 1980, the bottom 50 percent of wage-earners in the United States earned about 21 percent of all income in Continue reading →

Texas Republicans Helped Chemical Plant That Exploded Lobby Against Safety Rules

The French company that says its Houston-area chemical plant is spewing “noxious” smoke — and may explode — successfully pressed federal regulators to delay new Continue reading →

Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students

WELLSTON, Ohio — To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new Continue reading →

Backlash in Kansas ousts at least 11 conservative lawmakers

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators have lost their seats Continue reading →

Arizona Republicans Try to Bring Back Court-Packing

Republicans have not traditionally been fans of Franklin Roosevelt, but in statehouses across the country they are trying to emulate Continue reading →

Arizona Republicans cut Children’s Healthcare simply because it was a Federal Program

By Robert A. Vella As many of our readers are already aware, this blog often contrasts the differences between political Continue reading →