by Doug Thompson | Jan 21, 2021 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
We watched the Inaugural activities Wednesday on video via laptop, acknowledging that Joe Biden’s clear and measured address set just the kind of tone that America needed after the past four years of tyranny, corruption and chaos. Although I have covered more...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 16, 2021 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
A lot of debate in nearby Franklin County about the two Rocky Mount police officers who drove to Washington, DC, to participate in the assault on the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6. Franklin County is not alone. Many communities have found that some of “their own”...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 20, 2020 | FUBAR, Politics
In what Republicans and Democrats are calling “an unprecedented attempt and use of brute political force to overturn legal election results” continues this week as defeated president Donald Trump promotes discounted conspiracy theories and utters lie after...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 14, 2020 | FUBAR, Opinion, Politics
The headline of a column that appeared Friday afternoon got a lot of attention: “Trump’s racist appeals powered a White evangelical tsunami.” Columnist Dana Milbank tackled the question on how more than 70 million American voters turned out for...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 11, 2020 | FUBAR, Musings, Politics
This photograph, obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer from the website of Joshua Macias, shows he and other greeting Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Two Virginia residents drove up to Pennsylvania during the vote-counting in a Hummer with guns,...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 8, 2020 | Musings, News, Politics
America celebrated Saturday with a sense of relief after four years of turmoil, chaos and corruption were turned away by the voters who brought sanity, a desire for unity and a focus of values back to a nation of need. President-elect Joe Biden and vice...