Author: KJ McElrath

Alabama Tried the Mexican Deportation Plan Trump Endorses: it Failed Miserably

Alabama Tried the Mexican Deportation Plan Trump Endorses: it Failed Miserably

Posted by | Aug 24, 2015 | |

GOP front-runner Donald Trump is running on (among other insane ideas) an immigration platform that advocates for the most vicious, racist, draconian laws ever imagined. His ideas stop just short of customs in ancient Japan under the shoguns, when unwelcome foreigners could be killed outright. Likewise, Alabama House Bill 56, signed into law by current governor Robert Bentley, didn’t go that far – but it did virtually everything else. Alabama State Representative Micky Hammon, the lead sponsor of the bill, proudly proclaimed that the law “attacks every aspect of an illegal alien’s life…[it will] make it so difficult for...

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Why Do People Vote Against Their Best Interests? The history of Jaywalking actually provides a clue

Why Do People Vote Against Their Best Interests? The history of Jaywalking actually provides a clue

Posted by | Aug 24, 2015 | |

Liberals and progressives often wonder why working poor can support right-wing GOP candidates who could care less about the poor and whose policies help keep them poor and struggling. How is it that the oppressed are manipulated into voting for their oppressors? Why would anyone vote to have their jobs shipped overseas, their wages cut, be forced to bail out Wall Street banks, have their children denied an education, and to pay for illegal wars overseas for the benefit of the wealthy? A recent article on Salon.com provides some perspective. It’s entitled, “The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Reason...

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Will Google Rig Election for Hillary? Far Fetched: Experts say Easy to do: Might have occurred in India

Will Google Rig Election for Hillary? Far Fetched: Experts say Easy to do: Might have occurred in India

Posted by | Aug 22, 2015 | , |

Not even some of the great conspiracy theorists of past generations could have predicted the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) or even imagined it – but it’s here, it’s real, and Google could use it to flip elections. Two scientists state that the SEME is the culmination of a two-decade long struggle between search engines, which claim to provide the most “meaningful” Internet search results for users, and web masters, competing for the top positions of those search results. In the old days, web designers could “game” the system by using meta-tags and employing key words and phrases. Later,...

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Poll Shows Clinton vs. Trump Worse Matchup for Both Parties: Why Can’t DNC and GOP Elect Their Best Candidates?

Poll Shows Clinton vs. Trump Worse Matchup for Both Parties: Why Can’t DNC and GOP Elect Their Best Candidates?

Posted by | Aug 22, 2015 | |

A recent article in Bloomberg speculating on the possibility of a Joe Biden bid for the White  House highlights a serious problem with the present Democratic and Republican primary voting systems. It goes a long ways toward explaining why American voters have generally been dissatisfied with their choice of Presidential candidates. A recent Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll analyzes likely results of races in three battleground states, were elections held today. As it would shake out, Hillary Clinton would take Ohio and Pennsylvania, but would lose Florida, if competing against Donald Trump. However, Joe Biden would defeat Trump in...

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Right-Wing Wolves Turn on Each Other: Coulter Smacks O’Reilly Down Over Trump

Right-Wing Wolves Turn on Each Other: Coulter Smacks O’Reilly Down Over Trump

Posted by | Aug 22, 2015 | , |

The civil war tearing the GOP apart has been a long time coming, but it is beautiful to see. Republican front-runner  Donald Trump is doing a fine job setting the right-wing wolves at each others’ throats – and Ann Coulter’s recent remarks about Bill O’Reilly is a great example. It all starts with Trump’s immigration platform. Trump’s blatant, xenophobic racism has truly reached absurd proportions. Among his most extreme ideas: repeal the 14th Amendment, which automatically extends US citizenship to anyone born on American soil, regardless of the parents’ immigration status. His ideas have Coulter so enthusiastic that she...

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