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Representative Cori Bush is a Democrat Party member and ‘serves’ the First Congressional District of Missouri. She represents a district that includes most of the city of St. Louis. St. Louis ranks as the worst city for violent crime in the US.1 St. Louis violent crime eclipses Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore…the list goes…

Those are the words of Frederick Douglass, a courageous and brilliant man. In his own life he became a free man because knowledge freed him. When he realized that fact he said “From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”1 Douglass originally meant this to reveal the pathway to freedom from slavery…

In the 20th century the Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling 90 times.1 According to Time, since 1960 the ceiling has been raised 78 times.2 It’s been raised two more times since that Time article was written. Here are the dates that the debt ceiling has been raised over the past decade: September 8,…

A Shia splinter group called the Houthis from the north of Yemen -- the country at the extreme southwestern end of the Arabian peninsula bordering the southern end of the Red Sea -- has recently been in the news for attacks on shipping and before, violent attacks on Saudi Arabia. Although the Houthis practice a…

In October of 2022 a National Review online headline surprisingly stated “Exclusive: Hispanics More Likely Than White Democrats to Say Border ‘Not Secure’ by Double-Digit Margins.”1 The article cited a poll of Hispanics who were likely to vote in the 2022 November Mid-Term elections and concluded that “just 34 percent of Hispanics said the border…

Influencewatch.org is a very interesting and informative website. You can learn of the political leanings and influence of many important people and powerful groups in the current US political landscape. A reader of the website can learn of prominent people from all across the political spectrum both in the political news or those who may…

Oddly enough it was the launch of iPhone 15 that prompted a strike by Apple employees in France this past September, though European inflation was the real culprit.1 According to the forecasts by European Union economists, the overall annual inflation rate for France will “stand at 5.8%” in 2023.2 This rate of inflationary growth is…

In November of 2002, Osama Bin Laden wrote what he called his “Letter to America” to describe why it was that he and his followers were fighting against the US and Israel.1 In a delusion-filled defense for the destruction and death he instigated in the 9/11 attacks, and running about 3800 words, Bin Laden said…

On Tuesday (the 14th), the House of Representatives passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s stop-gap spending bill to keep the government open. Johnson’s plan “…extends federal funding at current levels for one group of agencies and programs through Jan. 19, and a second batch through Feb. 2.”1 In essence, this plan delays the government shutdown until after…