From Gallup: Americans' party preferences are closely divided, with 43% identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic and 41% identifying as Republicans or leaning Republican. The parties have been essentially tied since August, … [Read more...]
Archives for December 1, 2015
It’s Time to Call It as We See It: The Right’s Rhetoric and Terrorism
I posted this 4 1/2 years ago. This morning Jake Tapper-trying to use the word he had just learned from interviewing Juliette Kayyem--said "schotastic." stochastic terrorism: the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry … [Read more...]
Trump: Proving angry white men vote?
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham said it in 2012: “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” (Trump is shown below … [Read more...]
We shouldn’t criminalize intellectual disability
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) When people with intellectual disabilities commit assaults or other violent crimes, our response should not be to race to lock them up. That, however, appears to be the intent of the Bristol County … [Read more...]