General Motors Receives $500M Federal Grant to Electrify Lansing Grand River Plant by R.J. King DBusiness Magazine AB: Plant conversions from building gasoline and diesel driven vehicles to EVs. A timely move even if the newer models will require need modifications in later years. General Motors Co. today announced it has received a $500 million grant […]
J.D. Vance’s Yale Law School Classmates Trying To Derail His Political Career It’s not flattering to the GOP pick for Vice President By Kathryn Rubino Sigh. So Yale Law School’s own J.D. Vance was selected as Donald Trump’s running mate yesterday. It’s a victory for ass-kissers everywhere, and those who haven’t spent the last few years writing about the very junior senator from Ohio are trying […]
I was born into an America where the eight-hour workday was widely observed. But what was for me just another fact of life was a hard-won right of the labor movement that cost hundreds of lives. “Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age […]
Thom Hartmann Commentary Some interesting reads . . . Finally: The New York Times Editorial Board Calls for Republicans To Reject Trump. Calling him “Dangerous in Word, Deed, and Action,” the Times editorial board laid out, in detail, how deranged Trump is and how deadly his second presidency would be to American democracy and to the […]
by Jasper Craven Task & Purpose In mid-April, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, and Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough demanding to know why the agency was wounding itself. Specifically, they worried about a series of seemingly contradictory eligibility and staffing policies. In […]
by Steve Hutkins Save the Post Office Steve is my go to person for the USPS. Both Dan and I have known him for about a decade. Steve and others who have featured on Save the Post Office have been writing on its operation for years. Mostly the topics have been covering Postmaster Louis Dejoy’s […]
By Infidel753 Infidel753 Blog My Independence Day post was largely a repudiation of the lurch into pessimism and panic which has been evident in some quarters over the last couple of weeks. This stance is not rooted solely in my natural antipathy for pessimists and cynics. I have solid reasons, based on evidence and facts, for optimism […]
Except as Alabama Democrat Representative Terri Sewell pointed out, Tommy Tuberville voted against the bill ($550. million) that provided the money. President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation allocated the funding. If trump Wins the Election . . . July 12, 2024 by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American AB: Politicians are too busy […]
I draw upon Joyce Vance to explain such during her interview with Amanda Tyler, a lawyer who is the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. This is taken from Civil Discourse. Five Questions With Christian Nationalism Expert Amanda Tyler by Joyce Vance Civil Discourse Earlier this week, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said, […]
It is no secret. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 was skewed to the rich, expensive, and failed to deliver economic benefits. As Americans for Tax Fairness writes, the TCJA benefited billionaires greatly doubling their cumulative wealth. A different take being those making less than $114,000 in 2016 saw “no change in […]