Category: General

  • Mitch McConnell and wife, Elaine Chao, Embroiled in Controversary

    Corruptions - McConnell - Chao
    Power seems to corrupt.

    Kentucky Voters Turning Their Backs on McConnell and Chao

    Vanity Fair reports, “Last month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stonewalled a plan to fix the nation‘s roads, bridges, mass transit, and other crumbling infrastructure, despite the urgency of the issue and the outline of the deal receiving rare support from both Democrats and the White House. But, as it turns out, McConnell isn’t opposed to all infrastructure spending. In fact, he’s quite open to it when it‘s flowing specifically to towns in his home state, thanks to a special arrangement with the Transportation Department set up by his Cabinet secretary wife.”1

    Husband of new federal judge, Wendy Vitter, serves as lobbyist for Russian oligarch’s company

    MSNBC, May 21, 2019 – Rachel Maddow notes how the dots connect awkwardly for Mitch McConnell after the wife of the lobbyist who alerted McConnell to a huge Russian investment in Kentucky was suddenly processed for a federal judgeship for which she is not qualified.2

  • Illinois – Peoria Journal Star

    Illinois – Journal Star – June 27, 2015 – Download Front Page (PDF)

    It is so ordered.

    Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a drowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden.3

     

  • So call “Christian” Franklin Graham Demeans Mayor Buttigieg’s Religious Stance

    Franklin Graham tweets a shameful series of tweets while being a staunch supporter of Trump with all Trump’s sexual antics and mockery of marriage.4

    The only Democrat talking at length about his faith in the 2020 primary also happens to be the only gay candidate in the race. And he’s one of the few from a red state.

    South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is an Episcopalian who can freely quote Bible verses. He’s also a presidential candidate who embraces his husband on stage at campaign rallies.
    Combining homosexuality and Christianity might be the most natural thing in the world for Buttigieg and millions of gay Americans, but it is an iconoclastic development in American politics, where generalizations about religious freedom have in recent years been used specifically to fight advances in LGBTQ rights.

    For some on the religious right, like Franklin Graham, Buttigieg’s identity, while it’s shared by many gay Americans of faith, does not compute.5

    A recent poll states that almost 70 percent of American would rather have a gay President rather than an “evangelical”.

    WASHINGTON — With Pete Buttigieg’s campaign saying he raised an impressive $7 million in the first fundraising quarter, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is looking more and more like a significant factor in the 2020 Democratic primary.

    The main knock on his candidacy may be his lack of statewide or federal elected experience (South Bend’s population is only about 102,000). But it’s also worth noting that one fact about him is rarely treated as a liability: Buttigieg is openly gay and has been married to his husband, Chasten, since last June.6

     

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  • Trump Administration is Letting China Take the Lead

    The United States is falling behind in moon exploration and possible telecommunication research.

    Infographic: Chinese Land on Dark Side of the Moon | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista