The Constitution lays out very minimal requirements for the highest offices in the land. A president or vice president must be at least 35 years old, a “natural born” citizen, and a 14-year inhabitant of the United States. You need better credentials than that to get a job at McDonald’s. In fact, the people who’ve […]
Since Impeached President Donald J. Trump won’t open a Bible or spend time in meaningful prayer, let’s provide a little laying on of Scripture to let him know just how un-Christian his words and actions were on Monday and, for that matter, throughout the entire time he has been wallowing inside the White House. Just […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: It took a deadly disease that has killed more than 50,000 Americans to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Impeached President Donald J. Trump is seriously confused, bothered and bewildered to the point of destroying a once-great country. In the final part of our series, The Shinbone Star looks at a man unsuited […]
It’s no longer a question of if Impeached President Donald J. Trump is a dictator, it’s a matter of when will he shout down the Bill of Rights and then pass a law — by executive order — that will allow him to stay in office for as long as he wants. Not true, you […]
While Donald John Trump, Oval Office Occupant #45, was facing a very public impeachment trial, a more significant trial was being held simultaneously. The United States Constitution was also being tried and it appears that Republicans in the U.S. Senate have sentenced it to death. The facts of the president’s guilt are overwhelming. Trump publicly […]
In Texas, folks say that doing something pointless is “pissin’ up a rope.” The obvious result of such a maneuver need not be spelled out here, especially when anyone can look to look to Washington, D.C., where wet spots are cropping up faster than the coronavirus. The issue — and it is always the issue […]
Saying that no person is above the law, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that a formal impeachment investigation will be launched to determine if Donald Trump has violated the U.S. Constitution and his oath of office. The announcement sets up the epic clash between Democrats and Republicans (not to mention between Good and Evil) […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today, the Fourth of July, The Shinbone Star heeds the plea of staff member Macinelli by declining to cover the charlatan and criminal currently taking up space in the White House. Instead, we are reprinting the famous speech of a true statesman, Frederick Douglass, who, despite ignorant public assertions to the contrary, sadly left […]
Way back in the olden days of 2015 when Donald Trump descended from his golden, made-for-reality-tv throne (or what we commoners call an escalator), I reassured everyone that this wasn’t as bad as it seemed because the American political system gave a president little possibility for totalitarian rule. When Trump then started spewing his sexist, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shinbone Star staff member Robin Dalmas wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper, The Seattle Times, and it appeared there on April 21. It is reprinted here with her permission. It is time to begin impeachment hearings against Trump, using the Mueller report as a roadmap. Trump has committed so many impeachable […]
Donald Trump didn’t just stomp on democracy Friday by using the power of the veto to suppress a proposed bipartisan resolution to keep him from declaring a national emergency by decree, he took a crap on it. The irony here is that Trump was first to tell everyone his so-called emergency was more about expediency […]
D is for Donald. It’s also for: deluded, detrimental, deceitful, disgusting, demented, daft, dumb, disparaging, debauched, despot, dictator, degrading, deplorable, degenerate, discredited, disgraceful, damaging, dire, draft dodger, dirty, diabolical, destructive, duplicitous, disingenuous, dishonourable, disturbed, dangerous, depraved and deadly. T is for Trump. It’s also for TRAITOR. Last week we were witness to the unabashed, exhaustive testimony […]
“Bloody Sunday” is a part of American history that neither Donald J. Trump nor his Republican cohorts want you to remember. Why? Because it led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — designed to enforce the 15th Amendment of the Constitution, passed in 1870, that guaranteed blacks and minorities in America the right to […]
Here at The Shinbone Star, we love our international readers. This isn’t the first time I’ve pointed it out, but it’s always been a curiosity to think about why some guy in Suriname bothers to read about our deep and abiding hatred for Donald Trump. Even though Trump’s stupidity flows from his twittering thumbs like […]
Amid Brett Kavanaugh‘s contentious and wildly unruly Supreme Court nomination hearing, speculation on whether he could be removed once appointed are arising. The answer seems to be yes, but, it’s complicated. Kavanaugh has refused to say whether he believes Trump, as a sitting president, could be subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller to testify […]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances – First Amendment to the United States Constitution With the […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, signed in 1933 and still in force to this day, stated that the United States would be a “good neighbor” to Latin American countries. It is a signature rule of foreign policy, taught in most high school history classes. As former Secretary of State Cordell Hull told a meeting […]
(CNN) June 27, 2018 — A federal judge in California last week ordered a halt to most family separations at the U.S. border, and the reunification of all families that have been separated. It was the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during the ongoing furor over the president’s immigration policy. The court order specifically […]
How long can our democracy last? We have a rogue Congress and Oval Office Occupant who are hell-bent on destroying our justice system. Psycho Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Justice Department and the FBI because of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed […]
One year ago, the ESPN sports culture newsletter FiveThirtyEight published an article on the meaning of a constitutional crisis, “and which ones are likely to come up during Trump’s presidency.” You know our nation is on its political edge when a sports publication addresses both the Super Bowl and a constitutional crisis under Donald Trump. […]
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