VOICES

WORD ON WAR - Kabul, it's been noted, was not lost yesterday. It was the inevitable final fall of a calamitous, arrogant, 20-year, trillion-dollar, too-many-deaths imperial misadventure doomed, like too many before it, to failure from its inept start.

YouTube influencer Kevin Paffrath could become California's youngest governor to date.

INFECTIOUS POLITICS - You’d think that the whole world could unite against a deadly virus. COVID-19 has already sickened over 200 million people around the world and killed over 4 million.

LGBTQ VOICES - MSNBC executives are reportedly scrambling to figure out what they’ll do if host Rachel Maddow doesn’t renew her contract next year.

VIEW FROM HERE - Wokerism is the current name for the Democrats divisive political strategy which also is part of Nancy Pelosi’s racist, anti-White Identity Politics.

COMMENTARY-I am a conservative. That might surprise people who think that, as a progressive activist, I’m a liberal.

GELFAND’S WORLD - Although it has now been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt* that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, his return to the Oval Office has been delayed by a few days.

LGBTQ POLITICS - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is angry that trans youth and their parents are allowed to use Twitter while she got suspended once again for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

For those American readers not old enough to remember a time before the nationwide legalization of abortion through the court case known as Roe v. Wade (1973), let me remind you of some of the attributes of that era.

TAX CUT ANALYSIS - In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.”

RECALL POLITICS-Of those who initiated the recall of Governor Newsom, 90 percent are registered Republicans. This is their recall, but based on what?  

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS - Alexander Burns is a leading political affairs analyst for the New York Times. Unfortunately, even he has accepted the ill-defined political labelism swallowed wholesale by his journalistic colleagues.

GOVERNMENT WATCH - U.S. lawmakers and ethics advocates on Friday reiterated calls for firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after The Washington Post revealed that the United States Postal Service awarded a $120 million contract to XPO Logistics, a company he helped run and "with which his family maintains financial ties."

COMMON DREAMS-When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes -- adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag -- crossed into the Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony on July 23, I was overcome with pride and nostalgia.

WILDFIRE POLITICS-Northern California is on fire. Indeed, the entire U.S. West is suffering from a serve drought.

VOTING RIGHTS - Georgia has become the epicenter of the voting rights fight in the United States.

COMMENTARY - A recent poll came out from Emerson on the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, showing a statistically tied race among registered voters, 48 no, 46 yes.

This summer, it seemed as if we Americans couldn’t wait to return to our traditional July 4th festivities.

California’s great reformer, former Gov. Hiram Johnson, envisioned that “direct democracy” would be an effective curb on special interest influence.

The British social hierarchy of the Middle Ages and beyond was divided into “three estates of the realm”:the king, the clergy, and the commoners. 

VOICES - With an ugly, abject lack of empathy constituting what now feels like another deadly epidemic  - of not illness but ill will -