I get hundreds of comments during Politics Done Right. This one struck me. It was simple, fact-based, and easy to see and understand. The GOP is the party of death.
General News
Fareed Zakaria: The Republican Party has indulged its crazies for too long. Culminates with COVID.
Fareed Zakaria explains how the death and destruction caused by COVID are manmade, given the speed at which the vaccine was developed. And the GOP is responsible.
White House reporters’ inept questions like these on COVID partly to blame for Americans’ ignorance
It is easy to blame Republican politicians, Right-Wingers, and Evangelicals for COVID vaccine resistance. It is time to assign blame to reporters who lack critical thinking skills.
Select Committee Republican destroys GOP’s attempt to equate Black Lives Matter protests to Jan 6.
Many in the GOP attempt to equate the Black Lives Matter protests with the Jan 6th attempted coup. Republican Adam Kinzinger dispels the fraud.
Officer Harry Dunn at Jan 6 Select Committee Hearing: A hitman sent them. Get to the bottom of that.
Officer Harry Dunn had the most prescient statement at the Jan 6 Select Committee Hearing where he said one should not have to be considered brave, to tell the truth. But his request to Congress could not be discounted.
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A Few Takes
Surveillance video shows the condo building collapsing in Surfside near Miami Beach
This surveillance video shows the collapse of the condo tower apartments in Surfside near Miami Beach in real-time. I cannot see how there won’t be scores who died.
These 21 Republicans voted against giving Capitol police who saved their lives, the Congressional Gold Medal
These 21 Republicans, the ones who always preach law and order and support to those in blue voted against awarding Capitol police the Congressional Gold Medal.
Here’s what attacks on critical race theory are defending: History from a slaveholder’s viewpoint
I have stated for a long time that Republican leadership are great at projecting. They are hyped up about critical race theory. Of course, it is them who are trying to change history.
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Columnists
Young column: The fire is next door, wherever you live
The Cameron Park Fire burned from August to December, obliterating 326 square miles of forest and 469 structures.
Young column: Comparing whom to Nazis?
People are dying and suffering at an accelerated pace in states with low vaccination rates. Yet CPAC attendees in Dallas applauded when a speaker chortled that Joe Biden would come up short of his 70 percent vaccination goal.
Guest Bloggers
Thoughts on men controlling women’s bodies.
We get a lot of good commentary from listeners of Politics Done Right. Here are some thoughts from one of our YouTube Posse Members after we were discussing men imposing on women issues.
Voting Gangnam Style: The New Kim Crow in Georgia
For eight years now, I’ve investigated how Georgia’s Secretaries of State have amp’d up the old Jim Crow tactics against Asian-Americans. Call it, the New Kim Crow.
Local News
Mike Collier is not wasting any time in defeating Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. At Last!
Our local Kingwood Texas friend, Mike Collier (@CollierForTexas), is ready to kick the failed Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick out of office. Finally, someone who instead of giving away the store to corporate friends will do the bidding for Texas citizens.
Racism overtly exposed in my Donald Trump / Ted Cruz / Dan Crenshaw Kingwood, TX district. Why?
A friend/neighbor was walking through the trails in our Kingwood, Texas neighborhood and came across an epithet that clarifies Trumpism & Racism are alive & well in our town.
Texas is governed by psychopaths, murderous thugs
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST: We continue to be led by politicians who are killing many of our loved ones. Local authorities must defy the murderous edicts from the state and the federal government. It must be humanity over capital at once. I try to be civil. But how does one stay civil when those […]
Judge Lina Hidalgo puts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the spot for COVID-19 response
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo all but called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a very diplomatic manner for his failed control of COVID-19 on ABC’s This Week.
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The Hartmann Report
America’s 4th Turning Has Arrived — Which Path Will We Take?
Things seem bleak, but it’s that very bleakness that history tells us produces movements to overthrow psychopathic oligarchs
The GOP “Freedom” Scam Laid Bare
More Americans are seeing through the “freedom” scam & are leaving the Party in droves. How will they market voter suppression as their latest twist on “freedom”? You know they’ll try…
Hawley’s “Love America Act” Is All About Hate
White supremacy, racism & the rest of America subsidizing Red states weren’t just realities in 1787: they’re alive and well today & Hawley and his white supremacist buddies want to keep it that way
League of Independent Voters of Texas
Water Defenders to the Rescue!
Think about it. Our fearless heroes from WaterDefenders.org have arrived, JUST as Californians and others flood into central Texas, JUST as current Austin residents flee for affordability into eastern counties, JUST as eastern counties’ water is mass conveyed to fuel growth along the IH-35 corridor and the Hill Country!
King Greg Abdicates: Energy and Water Cutoffs Soon
Let me tell you a little story about how we got to this place as energy and water cutoffs are in the air, King Greg Abdicates.
People Making a difference
Keshia’s Story: Could save a KKK member from a mob but not her restaurant
Keshia is the activist who put her body between a mob and a KKK member who otherwise was going to get beaten to death. Sadly, she was unable to save her restaurant.
White woman’s response to black man who carjacked her at gunpoint a lesson for all.
This white woman’s response to a black man who hijacked her card should present the template for the empathy we should have across the board.
Sports
Texans Win. But why do it the hard way?
The Texans vs Bills game was exciting but it should have ended in regulation. Bill O’Brien is lucky to have stellar players.
Simone Biles named female athlete of the year | khou.com
Simone Biles continues to make Houston proud as she wins female athlete of the year. Congratulations! COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Gymnastics powerhouse Simone Biles has been named the 2019 Team USA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year after another record-setting performance in competition this year. Biles topped a list of award-winners of the honors presented […]
Entertainment
Alex Trebek has died at age 80 | CTV News
Alex Trebek, the Canadian broadcaster who found fame in the United States as a game show host, has died at the age of 80.
Actresses Diahann Carroll, barrier breaker of the ’60s died at 84.
One of my favorite actresses, Diahann Carroll, died today. We actually got her program in Spanish while I was growing up in Panama.
Aretha Franklin, you will be missed but you left us this (VIDEO)
Aretha Franklin is dead but she lives on in the manner most of us knew her. And as such, she lives on and will live on forever.
Battleground Texas
Support continues to build for Judge William ‘Bill’ McLeod
Judge McLeod turned around his office in two months. McLeod and his staff accomplished more in 2 months than his predecessor did in two years.
Netroots Nation
Vice President Joe Biden heckled at Netroots Nation 2014 ‘Stop deporting our families’
Vice President Joe Biden displays poise when heckled about deportations Vice President Joe Biden visited Netroots Nation this afternoon. The room was full of excitement as he was introduced. The Vice President thanked the Netroots Nation community for demanding and coaxing politicians to effect a progressive agenda. He stated the fact that it would not […]
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Coffee Party Posts
Coffee Party USA Board of Directors 2016 Meeting in Blue Ridge, Georgia
The Coffee Party USA board of directors coalesced around a strong voter education and turnout strategy that we will be releasing in the forthcoming weeks.
Occupy Movement
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-02-11)
Well we are at Occupy Kingwood week 8. I got up in the morning knowing it was going to be a long day. After-all, I promised to get to Occupy Kingwood early with donuts by 9:00 AM, our Kingwood Area Democrats were having a brunch and candidate round up at the Kingwood Country Club at […]
Move To Amend
Move to Amend’s Daniel Lee: Transcending political parties at the People’s Convention (VIDEO)
Many grassroots organizations have converged on Philadelphia, PA using the Democratic National Convention as the catalyst to organize for a better America.
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Egberto On TV
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Egberto on CNN on Should Embargo on Cuba be lifted
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. There are very specific reasons why we should drop the embargo on Cuba.
Egberto Mentioned In Media
Check out CNN article with my Mitt Romney analysis along with other CNN iReporters
Over the last few weeks CNN has been seeking out iReporters who had positions and analysis on Romney’s inability to seal the deal with Republicans in their primaries. CNN iReport producer Michael Saba wrote the following piece at CNN.com on our views and analysis. iReport pundits: 5 reasons why Romney can’t seal the deal Editor’s […]
Houston Chronicle Covers My Radio Show “Politics Done Right” At #OccupyHouston Rally
I will admit to be completely surprised by the Houston Chronicle covering the first radio show to stream live from Tranquility Park in Houston Texas for the Occupy Houston Rally. I did not even know they took pictures or interviewed Evan Carroll who has been spending the nights “occupying” even as he works his software […]
Egberto’s Published Articles
Is Net Neutrality Really Necessary? You’re Damn Right!
by Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss (Originally Published at Common Dreams) Three weeks after Christmas, the American judiciary gave telecommunications corporations a huge present. On January 14 a federal appeals court decided to weaken the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Internet Neutrality policy by striking down the rules it adopted in 2010 to regulate Internet service […]
Egberto Willies: Wendy Davis’ life story provides empathy necessary to be governor – Kingwood Observer
It seems like I chose just about the right time to write an article on Wendy Davis. She finds herself under attack not only by the entire Right Wing establishment, but from the traditional media as well. She happens to be the story to balance the myriad of bad acts by Republicans. There is a […]
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Environment
Are the new SST jets friendlier to the environment than the SSTs of the 1970s?
Nearly 20 years have passed since the last flight of the Concorde, the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane (or supersonic transport, SST).
Is it true that U.S. National Parks are affected disproportionately by climate change?
The effects of climate change can be felt all over the globe in various ways, but America’s national parks seem to be suffering more than U.S. overall land mass.