Is Trump’s Nomination for President Inevitable? Thinking through the Numbers.

August 25, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Trump has been the projected winner of the Republican presidential nomination since before he announced his candidacy. Talking heads in print news, network news, cable news, podcasts and the blogosphere, are sharply divided on most things. But on this they are unanimous: Polling shows that Trump will be the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024. They are so sure Trump will win that they are saying that Trump’s opponents are not running for the nomination, that they are actually auditioning to... Read more

Miracle of Democracy: Black Woman DA Leads Trump Indictment

August 15, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Donald Trump, the race-baiting, woman-hating, rapist/serial sexual predator, was indicted yesterday by — get ready for this — a black woman prosecutor, and she did it in that bastion of the Old Confederacy, the great state of Georgia. The democracy that Trump tried to destroy coughed up the most fitting answer to his depredations against women and black people possible, and in the doing of it demonstrated the power and the hope that democracy represents for all of us. Trump... Read more

Is ET Dipping and Dodging and Playing Footsie with Us?

July 26, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Today, the House held a bi-partisan hearing on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), or, as we little folk like to call them UFOs. Several reputable military personnel testified under oath to events they said they personally had witnessed. Meanwhile, over in the Senate, Chuck Schumer has come up with legislation to declassify documents on the subject. The cherry on top is that a couple of years ago former President Obama allowed as how “there is something ‘very interesting’ about UFOs,” that... Read more

Watch Mike Pence, Sniveling and Groveling His Moment of Greatness Away

July 14, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Mike Pence spins and turns in on himself in his slow irrelevant dance of pious non sequiturs. It is not admirable or even interesting watching this perfectly-groomed man with his helmet-head hair and old-time radio-announcer’s voice try to distance himself from the single moment of greatness in his life. Every utterance in every interview pushes him further away from the one brave thing he has ever done in his public life, until it seems as if Mike Pence, the man... Read more

Bishops and Priests: Follow Christ Yourselves, Then You can Lead Us.

December 21, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

Woe to you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either. Jesus Christ Christian clergy, by ignoring the Gospels and the Ten Commandments, have turned large swaths of American christianity into an amoral, corrupt, vicious arm of the Neo Nazi right wing. They have supported just about every evil that Scripture condemns and attacked many... Read more

Thank You Speaker Nancy Pelosi

November 17, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that she is not going to run for Democrat Leader for the next two years. Americans owe her a huge debt for the way she held things together during the debacle of the Trump presidency. We also owe her for the way she kept her cool and worked to save our democracy during the Republican coup attempt of 1/6/21. Republican senators and House members played a key role in fomenting the attack on the capital. They... Read more

Did the Bishops Just Stick their Collective Thumb in the Pope’s Eye?

November 16, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

Are the United States Catholic bishops declaring war on Pope Francis? I don’t know anything about the internal politics of the American bishops. I can clearly see that external politics, including right wing billionaire money, is playing a decisive role in the decision making of some of our bishops. But that insight does not come from my knowledge of internal Church politics. It comes from my knowledge of American electoral politics. These right wing bishops aren’t the first political whores... Read more

Did the High Rates of Repub COVID Death Change this Election?

November 15, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

I haven’t heard any discussion of one of the more obvious points concerning this year’s election results. So, I’ll take it up. That point is simple. A large number of voters were missing at the polls this year because they died during the COVID pandemic. Around 3/4 of a million of those who died were in the precise age groups that vote most heavily for the Republican Party. Not only that, but studies have shown that registered Republicans died from... Read more

I Knew the Election Would Be Close. Here’s How I Figured It Out.

November 14, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

I’ve been watching talking heads “explain” the election results for days now. I get the impression that Michael Moore and I were the only living Americans who knew that the election was going to be close. I know that’s not true, but in the alternative universe of made-up “news,” it’s the pretend reality. So, as one the two unofficial only living Americans who knew the election was going to be close, I suppose I should share how I came to... Read more

St Thomas More Committed Horrible Sins for a Political Church

November 1, 2022 By Rebecca Hamilton

I chose St Thomas More for my name saint. Since I spent much of my adult life as an elected official, and Thomas More is the patron of saint of elected officials, that might seem obvious. Of course, Thomas More’s political career far exceeded anything I ever accomplished. He was an internationally recognized thinker, who became, for a short while, the Chancellor of England. He was also a martyr who gave his life rather than take an oath saying that... Read more