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Not great for ordinary Americans

Republicans have no idea how ordinary Americans live, and they don’t care. Look no further than their wildly regressive domestic policy bill—signed into law on, of all days, Independence Day. The crux of the hugely unpopular bill is tax cuts for the rich. Throwing money at the uber-rich, of course, requires some offsets. Republicans chose to cut services for ordinary folks. The richest 1% of Americans will receive about $117 billion in tax cuts in 2026. Struggling households, meanwhile, will see incomes DROP by 2.9%! Almost $1 trillion was cut from federal health ...

A promise kept or broken?

The rubber-stamp Congress passed the Big (expletive) Bill, ignoring their responsibility to work for the people. Instead, they gladly enslave themselves to a wanna-be autocrat so they can, hopefully, keep their jobs. Just in time; the showman will sign this hoax into law in the middle of Fourth of July festivities, further demeaning the ideals of this once proud and promise-filled country that so many fought and died for. A few crumbs were thrown to the masses (no tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security for example) to distract them so they won’t notice that ‘the haves’ get ...

Follow the money

Because of Trump’s stunning B-2 strike on Iran’s aggressive nuclear weapons program, Trump is now being called a warmonger. But that’s silly. Trump is a businessman. Trump loves making deals. And wars kill people. You can’t make deals with dead people, or even get them to sign a lease except for a six-foot plot. But not only is Trump not a warmonger, he’s also not the opposite. Trump is no starry-eyed hug-the-world snowflake peace freak such as we see demonstrating on our streets. No, he’s a hard-headed calculating cultivator of peace because peace is where the deal is. And ...

A lot more believable

In matters of national security, whom should we trust more—career professionals within the intelligence community, who are trained to make sober and collective assessments based on evidence, or a single man driven by narcissism and a habitual disconnect from the truth? Before our aircraft had even returned to base, former President Trump declared total success in crippling Iran’s nuclear program, boasting of complete obliteration. The problem? No such confirmation had been made. What followed was a retroactive twisting of facts to validate a narrative that appeared more concerned ...

New leadership needed

Wanted: A candidate who truly has the best interest of the people of the 15th Congressional District to run against and unseat Glenn Thompson. Thompson has been in Washington since 2008 and has shown himself to be just what the people of the 15th District don’t need:A Trump supporter. It doesn’t matter what Trump wants as far as Thompson is concerned. He’ll support it. He recently voted to throw 16 million people off of Medicaid and to give the billionaires yet another massive tax break. What we need is someone who is willing to stand up to Trump and demonstrate a characteristic ...

Esteemed leaders in science, policy

The future of our society lies in the hands of those who dare to ask questions, seek answers, and improve lives through scientific discovery. Among the many challenges we face, few are as profound and universal as cancer — a disease that affects millions of families worldwide. Yet, as federal funding for scientific research faces increasing jeopardy, the progress we have made in understanding and combating cancer is at risk. The importance of federally funded research in cancer cannot be overstated. Over the decades, these investments have led to groundbreaking discoveries, from ...