Trump, by his actions and words, has shown he has and wants to have good relations with dictators or would-be dictators (Putin, Duterte, Fattah el-Sisi, Erdogan for example), and to pick fights with democratic leaders (of Canada, Australia and Mexico). (More to come)
Month: April 2017
Why So Much Attention Paid to Planned Parenthood?
I’ve been wondering why so much attention has been paid, and continues to be paid by legislators and members of the general public, to Planned Parenthood. Doctors affiliated with Planned Parenthood perform many services for women and men: cancer screenings, often in the form of Pap smear tests for women; prescriptions for birth control in many forms for women (prescriptions…
Gorsuch Confirmed
Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court today. Let’s look at how we got here. In March 2016, President Obama nominated Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, a completely qualified judge, to the Supreme Court seat created by the death of Antonin Scalia. For much of election year 2016, the Republicans in the House and Senate said that “the…