Today the nation and people on the Blue side of the equation received the bad news that Congressman John Yarmouth from Kentucky is retiring. Cong. Yarmouth is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and is also chairman of the House Budget Committee. This is what he is quoted as saying in an article posted […]
By Lorenzo Canizares 9/9/21 Tonight, Fox TV was unhinged. Sean Hannity was blasting the President unmercifully because of Biden’s newly announced Covid-19 mandate. The mandate will require all federal employees and government contractors to get vaccinated against Covid-19. According to a 9/9/21 Reuters article, this will affect millions of people. It seems as if Right-wing […]
Today (7/11/21) we are witnessing that Cuban people have taken to the streets to protest the harsh conditions they are living under. And there is no denial that living conditions in Cuba are harsh. But the cause of the harsh conditions in its essence has nothing to do with failures of the Cuban government, but […]
Mitch McConnell is back to his old ways of making sure Democrats can’t do anything that will help the people of this country. Remember his famous pledge “our task is to make sure that Obama is a one-term president.” Obama was able to get some good things done, but it could have been much […]
If we want peace, justice has to be on the menu To achieve fairness we have to target specifically. Please make no mistake, fairness and justice are synonymous. Most times when we think about justice most people think about what’s happening to the least among us, and that’s fine. But, justice covers more than just […]
The handwriting is on the wall. Even the Wall Street Journal expects the results of the Covid-19 Relief bill to be a major success. The expectations already are that a year from now, if not sooner, the U.S. economy will be thriving, kids will be back in schools, parents will be back to work, and […]
White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, calls the Covid-19 Relief bill “The most progressive piece of legislation in history.” I don’t know about that. But, the legislation is certainly a good compendium of progressive measures offering significant help to regular common folks. Meanwhile, Republicans are not supporting the bill under the excuse that it […]
The Big Lie keeps reverberating through right wing media. Believers are doing crazy things like what happened in January 6th. Talking out loud about the second coming of Trump. Threatening people with mayhem on the Donald’s name. Is this a way to run a civilized nation? Why are these people getting away with creating havoc? […]
A USA TODAY/ IPSOS poll released Friday indicates that only 28 percent of white Americans believe that what happened to George Floyd was murder. If that’s not an indictment of the moral level of white Americans, I don’t know what it is. Discussing the trial of Derek Chauvin, Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, said that […]
WHAT CAN LABOR EXPECT FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA Thursday, April 29, 2021 via Zoom at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of the Labor Forum is to listen to the ideas of others on what labor unions need to do in order to fulfill President Biden’s campaign promises. To be fair, President […]