Pat Shiplett Writes About People.
Her young family slipped through the Bamboo Curtain.
The reverend faced his congregation each Sunday and intoned “Savior of the world…”
“…save China!” the boy in the student pews would reply.
The seven-year old had seen photos of ‘chinamen.’ There was a man on TV who wore rubber bands to slant up his eyes and there was the movie detective named Charlie Chan. Read more…
Imagine a president seriously batshit, barely keeping it together.
Now imagine that president taking national security advice from someone who helped sucker us into Iraq, one of the worst unforced errors in our history.
Donald Trump was close to his first national security advisor until he pled guilty to undermining U.S. sovereignty. He fired his second advisor, a three-star general with an impeccable record, for giving recommendations that made sense. Read more…
This is not the sound of whining. Not long after an AR-15 was used to murder seventeen high-school students in Parkland, Florida, Fox News launched an assault of its own. On the surviving students.
Instead of bullets Laura Ingraham used smears, mockery and calumnies to belittle students demanding that their parents and their government protect them against epidemic gun violence. Read more…
Despite the fact that Jared Kushner has been denied permanent security documentation by the FBI, Donald Trump has put him in charge of international U.S. relations with Mexico, Canada and China.
The president has placed nothing less than the future of the Middle East peace process, our opioid crisis and the problems at the VA in the hands of an untested son-in-law who is limited in his ability to view highly classified information.
There’s a pattern of national security risks at work here. Read more…
Although I preach family values, I’ve climbed into bed with a married man who pays hush money to a pornstar.
Although I shame teenage girls for how they dress I’m okay when Donald Trump parades them half-naked at his beauty pageant. Read more…
