Month: December 2021

The War on Christmas, and other Fox News myths

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Last week, a mentally disturbed homeless guy lit the Fox News Christmas tree on fire (fake tree, I might add). The arson wasn’t politically motivated, but that didn’t stop Fox News’ Tucker Carlson from saying, “Torching Christmas trees is an attack on Christianity, obviously. It’s an assault of religious observance. By current standard, destroying someone’s religious symbol would be called a hate crime.”

Oh, please. The War on Christmas is as phony as Fox’s tree. It’s merely a self-serving tool to advance one’s political and economic agenda.

No one has mastered that tool better than Donald Trump. Continue Reading →

Bigger Bang for the Buck

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I rarely ask for donations to support our work, so I hope you’ll pitch in today. Between The Fallon Forum and Bold Iowa, we get a bigger bang for the buck than most other organizations, especially national non-profits with a top-down corporate structure who pay their head honchos ridiculous salaries.

Both the Forum and Bold are almost entirely volunteer-driven. Yet we have expenses, of course, and could sure use your help at this time.
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Iowan who Biden told to vote for someone else accepts Trump’s debate challenge

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“Given the facts on the 2020 election, I’m surprised no leading Democrat wants to debate Trump. Well, when the bully Goliath taunted the Israelites and none would face him, David stepped forward. Let’s do this, Mr. Trump. Bring on your strongest arguments as to why you think the election was stolen. Like Goliath, you’re going to lose. If I can hang tough when Joe Biden pokes me in the chest and grabs my lapels, I’m certainly not afraid to debate Donald Trump,” said Fallon, referencing the January 26, 2020, incident when Biden told Fallon to “go vote for someone else” after Fallon questioned him about climate change and the Dakota Access Pipeline. Continue Reading →

Labor Unions Are Winning

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There’s some sense that recent successes seen by working families are due to fallout from COVID-19. But as Charlie points out, the success of the 2018 teachers union strike shows that the resurgence of Labor’s influence predates COVID.

While one might see the effort to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama as a failure, that effort has set the stage for other Amazon workers to push for better wages and working conditions. Continue Reading →