Tag: Republican Party

Between Two Horoscopes “The Cruelty Is the Point”

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
A few days ago a controversial comparison of natal planets appeared here in the form of a question concerning two individuals who have been compared to one another in the press so I wondered what Astrology might have to say about them in bi-wheel form.
Today on SO’W comes another comparison between natal planets from 1946 to 1740, inspired by the

Women, the GOP, and the Comstock Act

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Seal: The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Perhaps you’ve read the Wikipedia page detailing the Comstock laws which tells of anti-vice crusader and Post Master General Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844–September 21 1915) and the Comstock Act of 1873 which was passed by Congress on March 3, 1873. Naughty items sent through the mail became

Trump’s Take-Over Plan Began Years Ago

by Jude Cowell, partisan for American democracy
In development for years, the tendency toward delusion and deception practiced by the Republican Party via their 2024 candidate Trump was at a crescendo with the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama. Financiers and other backers, our enemies both foreign and domestic, must have been quite put out with the GOP turning out to be a bunch of

Midpoint pictures of a Neptunian GOP: Crossing the Great Water

Image: You May Cross the Great Water; pencil on paper; Jude Cowell Art 2006+
As you know, the Republican Party, founded in 1854 with Neptune in mid-Pisces, experienced its first-ever Neptune Return, a multiple affair occurring in 2017 into 2018 – the "Trump years." These days, a few pundits have noted that the party is circling the drain, a perfect metaphor describing the dissolution, loss, and

Midpoint pictures of a Neptunian GOP: Crossing the Great Water

Image: You May Cross the Great Water; pencil on paper; Jude Cowell Art 2006+
As you know, the Republican Party, founded in 1854 with Neptune in mid-Pisces, experienced its first-ever Neptune Return, a multiple affair occurring in 2017 into 2018 – the "Trump years." These days, a few pundits have noted that the party is circling the drain, a perfect metaphor describing the dissolution, loss, and

Is the FBI Working for the Far Right? – Thom Hartmann

Here’s a recent segment from Thom Hartmann who poses a very timely question for the future of our country:

And here’s a link to a previous post meant for any reader who may have missed Rachel Maddow’s highly informative Ultra podcast concerning Nazis in America circa 1940s.

Plus, the fact that the FBI (1908) and the Republican Party (1854) were both hatched during the same 19 North Saros

The Republican Revolution marches on

As Dixiecrat Republicans Prance Through History
by Jude Cowell
With current congressional Republicans finagling their budgetary demands to virtually guarantee that yet another government shutdown will occur, harm Democrats, bring financial stress to US workers, and potentially cause a global economic crash, information concerning the Republican Party’s Federal Government Shutdowns of 1995 and

Vote for Speaker of the House Day 3

Planet Mars now Rx in Gemini: NASA photo
by Jude Cowell
As Kevin McCarthy has fallen short of the required number of votes to catapult him into the Speaker of the House position since Tuesday January 3, 2022, planets have continued along their courses. Today at noon the Republicans and Democrats will assemble once again on Capitol Hill and votes will be cast and tallied, perhaps with the very

Vote for Speaker of the House Day 3

Planet Mars now Rx in Gemini: NASA photo
by Jude Cowell
As Kevin McCarthy has fallen short of the required number of votes to catapult him into the Speaker of the House position since Tuesday January 3, 2022, planets have continued along their courses. Today at noon the Republicans and Democrats will assemble once again on Capitol Hill and votes will be cast and tallied, perhaps with the very

118th Congress: Jupiter and Algol Rise

by Jude Cowell
When the Republican Party formed in 1854, did the founders consider themselves a death cult in the making? Probably not, yet that’s how far-right insurrection-leaning members and QAnon coup enthusiasts can be described these days especially after Tr*mp’s attempted overthrow of the US government on January 6, 2021. Of course, the party’s close financial-and-ideological relationship