How Necessary Laws Are Killed These Days
Lawmakers generally only fight to protect the things they care about – and all too often, that just doesn’t include the lives of most of their constituents.
U.S. Constitution States That President Is Not Above The Law
The U.S. Constitution clearly states that the president can suffer the full range of legal punishments if he breaks certain laws.
U.S. Aviation Crashes Greatly Decreased After ‘Targeted Disabilities’ Initiative Enacted
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2025 We haven’t seen a disaster like the crash over the Potomac in almost 25 years, and federal data on U.S. aviation crashes reveal…
Trump Hired People With ‘Targeted Disabilities’ As Air Traffic Controllers During First Term
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 13th, 2020 It was “ the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in nearly 25 years,” according to the Associated Press. But Donald Trump knows only one…
Read Mangione's full manifesto here. Read Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto On The Apparent Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 25th, 2025 It’s become quite difficult to find the actual, short and concise manifesto Luigi Mangione wrote about his motives for the apparent shooting and…
It wasn’t that long ago that Trump was leading the calls to ban the popular app from the U.S. Is Trump’s Pledge To Save TikTok App His ‘January Surprise?’
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2025 The Washington Post invented a crisp little quip about Donald Trump during his initial run for the U.S presidency in 2016. They noted…
Trump Dead Wrong on Socialism
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 8th, 2025 “This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny.”Donald Trump,…
Trump Is To Blame For Attempts On Trump’s Life
Trump has never understood that when you play with fire, you’re sure to get burned. By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2024 Elon Musk was confused. When a few individuals…
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for three of those behind the devastation in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Wanted For War Crimes, Declares International Court
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2024 About two weeks ago, the world’s leading court for the investigation and punishment of war crimes took the large step of issuing arrest…
Sub Minimum Wage
Most U.S. citizens know that their country has created a federal minimum wage — and that it is woefully inadequate for basic human needs. But few have heard that employers…
Time For The Wealthy To Pay Their Share Of Taxes
Imagine being the owner of a fancy restaurant. One day a small group of people come in to your establishment. They demand much more food than the other customers, and…
Great Salt Lake May Dry Up In Five Years
“Emergency measures [are] needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from [an] ongoing collapse,” according to a recent study released by a large group of universities and environmental groups.“If this loss…
Newspapers Call For US to Drop Charges Against Assange
It perhaps has not been much noticed much over the holidays, but in November, the editors and publishers of five of the world’s best-known news organizations released an open letter…
Rep. McCarthy January 6th Panel
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has hinted that the incoming Republican majority will investigate the Jan. 6th Committee Investigation.“The American people have a right to know that the allegations you…
Biden Administration Actions And January 6th Committee
“A series of decisions by the Biden Administration” was a “salient factor contributing to the [U.S. House January 6th] Committee’s robust and timely access to relevant evidence” regarding the failed…
Slaughterhouses May Have Employed Children for Graveyard Shift
Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) is a major U.S. food safety sanitation company. And it may be in some very hot water right now.On Nov. 9th, the Labor Department filed…
U.S. Insurance Markets Offer Little Competition
Remember how U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle looked voters in the eye a few years ago and told them that they ‘didn’t need a public health care…
Who is to Blame for Current Economic Mess
Why the hell are prices so high?Let’s face it, this is the reason so many U.S. voters are checking out Republican candidates these days. If the conservative party does well…
We’re Back
It’s been a while since the American Spark has produced its usual, up-to-the minute articles. And it’s true — we have been kept from publishing such articles for a while…
Possible Charges for Service members Involved in Jan Insurrection
On Jan. 6th, Trump supporters tried and failed to perpetrate a coup for their ‘great leader’, who has proven himself incapable of winning a popular vote in this country by…
Covid 19 Eviction Ban Ending
“The Biden administration is weighing whether to extend a soon-expiring federal policy that prohibits landlords from evicting their cash-strapped tenants” during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post…
How Trump Sells A Lie
Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump and his minions tend to follow the basic four-step rhetorical process already set for them by the neo-conservative (called neo-liberal in the rest of the…
Can We Now Admit That Trump Is A Fascist
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 13th, 2021The march had been planned for a while. Those who made up the march to the nation’s capital sometimes were fueled by hatred of…
Economic Fallout From Coronavirus Hardest On Poor Hispanic And Black Americans
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2020Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been hard on all of us. But the pandemic’s economic fallout has been harder on lower-income Americans,…
