Garland Nixon
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Donald Trump is Like a Championship Wrestler, His Fans Don't Care if He is Real
Every now and then, a con man gets so bold that he flaunts the gullibility of his mark. No one really knows why and, in fact, it's a very risky move. Teasing the mark is a questionable strategy, if it's even a strategy at all. I would propose that the con man, a narcissistic ...read more
Hillary Clinton's Troubling History of Racial Identity Politics May Come Back to Haunt Her
Hillary Clinton's Black firewall in the South may be in jeopardy. Certainly the Clinton's are respected by Southern Black voters and Hillary is in a position to pull away from Bernie in the Southern primaries, but she has some vulnerabilities in the area of race relations and ...read more
Debbie Wassermann-Schultz and Hillary Clinton are Seriously Hurting The Democrats
Let me be clear about my position. I will support the Democratic nominee in November of 2016. The stakes for immigrants, people who have difficulty affording health care, and those of us who believe that Citizens United must be overturned are simply too high to allow a ...read more
How President Obama Collapsed The GOP's Fragile Coalition
The election of a Black president, particularly Barack Obama, spelled disaster for the GOP from day one. What we are seeing today in the form of a Trump political devolution and the outlandish acting out of the Bundy progeny is a symptom of a party that has collapsed. The ...read more
Republicans Reject Climate Change Because Of Religious Free Market Beliefs
The conservative opposition to the concept of manmade climate change is perplexing to many of us on the liberal/progressive side of the ideological aisle. Their arguments are often contradictory and--more often than not--come across as ad hoc debate points or quasi-religious ...read more
Hung Jury in Freddie Gray Trial Exposes America's Hierarchical Justice System
It should come as no great surprise to Americans that Baltimore City Police officer William Porter, a man who was clearly on some level responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, wasn't convicted of a crime. It is the rare exception in America when law enforcement officers are ...read more