This article compares them. There are a lot of similarities.
Month: April 2018
A great cartoon on Trump and the evangelicals
Kennedy will determine the future of the Supreme Court
This column is over a year old (and before the Gorsuch appointment) but still makes sense.
From the essay: ” What’s more, a highly conservative first pick by Trump would offer an inauspicious signal for what might come next. The last three Republican presidents have all started with more moderate selections (Sandra Day O’Connor for Reagan, David Souter for President George H.W. Bush and John G. Roberts Jr. for President George W. Bush) and then moved to the right with their second picks (Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, respectively). If Trump begins with a far-right conservative such as Pryor or Gorsuch, what might his second nominee look like? Definitely not like Kennedy.”
I certainly assume Trump would appoint an extreme conservative which will result in Democrats appointing extreme liberals when they get their chance in the future.
Good point!
The perspective of black Parkland students
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is 11% black. According to this article on Vox: “Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.”
Here are more articles on the perspective of the black students.
Washington Post. From this article:
“At a news conference black Parkland students called on Wednesday, NPR’s Nadege Green reported that they questioned whether the same people who showed up for the anti-gun-violence March for Our Lives would also stand up for black men killed by police such as Stephon Clark and Alton Sterling.
In the weeks since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, it has been noted how Americans have reacted differently to the student activists of Parkland vs. the youth of urban communities who deal with the issue of gun violence on a more regular basis and have been vocal about the topic for years. “
Sad!
It’s not just Ingraham
Other right-wing people are attacking the Parkland students. It’s fine to disagree on gun safety ideas but personal attacks are disgusting.
Ted Nugent says Parkland activists “have no soul”.
Michael Flynn, Jr. said the parents of an activist didn’t smack him enough.
Frank Stallone apologized for saying someone should sucker punch David Hogg.
Here’s a column which makes the argument that the right wing attacks the students because the students are changing the public’s opinion. Here’s another article on how the kids became villains to the right-wing Internet sites.
Sad!
Which Trump cabinet member gets fired next?
This column made a bracket of which cabinet member is the worst.
“Open carry only works out for white people”
This essay points out the difference between how white people and black people with guns are treated.
The column says” In America white guys receive lots of signals—from the news, from their communities, from elected leaders—that violence might be an acceptable answer to their troubles. People of other colors and non-Christian faiths don’t.”
Sad!
Sad! 