Issue: 832
Sept 10, 2020
Color of Law
Trump’s Race-Baiting Campaign Will Fail
Executive Editor
People are demanding that Black people are treated as human beings. Trump would change the subject and have everyone believe that peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters, the latest incarnation of the Black boogeyman, are the problem.
(CNN)The Republican National Convention embodied a strategy by President Donald Trump’s campaign to divide and conquer on the issue of race. This was an effort to…
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Commentary
Is The Economy Rebounding?
Editorial Board
The lines at the food banks have not gone down, and in some communities, they are getting longer. Once thought to be relatively immune to the virus, small-town America is now being hit, and forcefully. The challenge is that there are fewer hospitals or health care facilities in rural areas.
On the Friday before Labor Day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report, The Employment Situation. It reported good news – the unemployment rate…
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Commentary
Kenosha Is Healing!
Editorial Board
“Lacking an understanding of systemic racism, and the prevalence of white supremacy, Kenosha seeks a return to a time before August 23, 2020, the day Sheskey, representing the conqueror, the plantation militia, the Frontiersmen, the Rambo - all wrapped up in one gunslinger taking out the enemy. Seven shots in the back!”
“Lacking an understanding of systemic racism, and the prevalence of white supremacy, Kenosha seeks a return to a time before August 23, 2020, the day Sheskey,…
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Commentary
Trump Contemptuous of Rural Supporters as He is Of U.S. War Dead – Solidarity America
Columnist
his base should never forget his view of rural people, in Scotland or in the U.S., is that they “live like pigs” and that he has shown his contempt for them in so many ways. Being a child of privilege and power (he reportedly has golden toilets in his residences) and never having grown out of that childish stage of development, he only has respect for those of his class, a very small group, indeed, and can’t understand that everyone does not live in his Land of the Golden Toilets.
President Donald Trump has stirred up a hornet’s nest, as he usually does, with some of the most disparaging comments and name-calling, as he did recently…
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Commentary
Working Theory of 2020 Election
Columnist
Given this reality, it is imperative that Joe Biden focus like a laser beam on turning out the Democratic base and not waste any substantial resources on persuading Trump voters to back him.
In the wake of the Democratic and Republican conventions and with a little over seven weeks to go, Biden’s national lead over Donald Trump has held…
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