The falsest of equivalencies by: Robert Harrington | 9:00 pm EDT September 10, 2022 in The Palmer Report When Lindsey Graham metaphorically smacked his lips at the delectable prospect of Donald Trump’s goons, ghouls and cretins “rioting in the streets” if Trump should be indicted, he summoned the ghost of Hillary Clinton as a moral…
Joe Biden wins the day! In a Joe Biden Zoom conference call with front line medical staff, one of the members, an ICU nurse named Mary, spoke of her heartache in dealing with coronavirus patients on a daily basis, the poignant heart wrenching of watching helplessly as patients on ventilators died without her being…
Donald Trump’s coronavirus vaccine botch job: Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EST November 15, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis We have the Roman historian Tacitus to thank for the aphorism that has come down to us through many revisions as, “Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.” While no clear-eyed retrospective of history will ever be…
I hate Donald Trump Robert Harrington | 2:00 pm EDT May 27, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis When I was in high school I had one of those friends who claimed to never hate anyone. If he harboured anything like antipathy for someone at all he would claim that, instead of hating them, he preferred, as he put it,…
It’s Time To Call A Murderer A Murderer In the run up to their 1998 Jackson Pollock retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the show’s curator received a disturbing letter from a Mr Metzger. Metzger wanted to know, “Why are you honoring the man who murdered my sister?” If…
Written: May 10, 2003 (4,541 words) To Whom It May Concern: Obviously, this is a message to a number of people, my friends, who know Larry Marshall and me, Larry Norton. The dictionary defines FRIEND as a person attached to another by respect or affection, (or as an acquaintance). Also, a friend is…
After coming home from the gym and cleaning house there is not enough time today to compose my own message. So I am wanting to reprint the Althia Raj presentation on Huffington Post regarding climate change and the report from the United Nations. However, the video could not be copied below. So here is the…
THE WAR ON TRUTH Unknowingly, the human race has slipped into the Third World war. This time, the battlefields aren’t in Europe or even the Middle East. They’re right in front of you: Your desktop computer, your laptop or tablet. The battle is even being waged on your smartphone.…
Media Got the Minimum Wage Story Wrong Stories about projected job losses rely on outdated economics and ignore substantial expected benefits for workers. By Michal Rozworski 5 Jan 2018 | TheTyee.ca Michal Rozworski is a Toronto-based researcher and writer. He blogs at Political Eh-conomy where a version of this article first appeared. Find his articles previous published on The Tyee here. Minimum…
Very simply, from the transcript of Chris Matthews’ closing on a Thursday night’s HARDBALL: I guess when he gets mad, he can really excel at what he does. “Tomorrow’s Friday. If the president were to rise at dawn and say, “It’s Saturday,” what would be the meaning of that statement? Would his people – those who…
