According2Sam Podcast

In the 2006 Congressional election Democrats won both houses of Congress. It was the first time one party had won both houses since Republicans did it in 1994. Two years later they increased their control in each house, gaining 21 seats in the House of Representatives, and 8 seats in the Senate. This gave Democrats a 60 seat, filibuster proof, majority in the Senate. Democrats could have passed al...

Many people were surprised that the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas case challenging the 2020 election in four other states, especially considering it was supported by eighteen other state's Attorney Generals and a large majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives. It was a clear cut case of election laws being changed in the four states by parties other than the...

We are exposed to media all day, everyday. From the moment when we wake up and check email or turn on the radio, to checking our social media account just before we fall asleep, most of us are exposed to thousands of media messages throughout each day. Over 90 percent of the media impressions made on us daily comes from outlets owned by just five multinational corporations known as the 'Big Five'....

The call for unity after a close presidential election is as American as the presidential election itself. Abraham Lincoln called for unity in his first inaugural address saying, "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection." Following Lincoln's call for unity Southern states begin to secede from the Union lead...

When Joe Biden first started using the slogan, "Build Back Better" he was quickly accused of plagiarism. Biden had been caught plagiarizing before, and he had to drop out of the 1988 election when it was learned he lifted portions of his campaign speeches from both John F. Kennedy, and then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock. However, "Build Back Better" is a slogan currently being w...

President Trump is receiving a lot of pressure to concede the election now that the media has projected Joe Biden the winner. Those applying that pressure are hoping to put the election to bed and avoid a protracted legal dispute in court. President Trump has never been the type to cave under pressure, and he seems posed to do exactly what they fear. In fact, the President has already petitioned t...

This year has been one for the ages. It started with the impeachment hearings of the President, only the 3rd time in history that such hearings had taken place. While these hearings were taking place America got it's first case of the novel Covid-19, which soon developed into a pandemic, which lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people globally. In the United States this lead to nationa...

When you go back and listen to Senator Joseph Biden argue for more criminal justice in the 1980's and 90's his rhetoric stands in stark contrast from what we hear from him today as he seeks to become President of the United States for a third time. It is like listening to two completely different people. Back then he put pressure on Republican administrations to increase funding for a national pla...

When President Trump accused Joe Biden of calling Black youths "Super Predators" in the debate many people assumed he was telling a falsehood, or making a mistake. Most Americans were unaware of the disparaging remarks Joe Biden made about Americans he admitted were "victims of society", many of these were poor, urban, Blacks that would be victimized further by the 1994 Crime Bill. Biden did call...

The United States started seeing cocaine on it's streets in the early 1970's. It was smuggled into the county through South Florida by Cuban exiles working with Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. In those days cocaine was an expensive luxury drug enjoyed by rich and middle-class Americans; the stockbroker who does a few bumps to ease the pressure of the job, or the socialite that liked doing a...

When Richard Nixon resigned in the middle of his second term the Republican brand was at its lowest point since the founding of the party. The party was associated with scandal and had lost trust with the American people. However, when Ronald Reagan was elected 6 years later it was a chance to show the American people that the party had changed. When the Iran-Contra scandal broke in the middle of...

The Eighties decade was a transformative decade for the United States, but in 1980 when the decade started all of the problems the nation faced at the close of the Seventies were still pervasive. These were the problems the Reagan administration sought to overcome when they came to power in 1981. Domestically, most of those problems were economic issues, and Reagan was bringing a bold and aggressi...

When Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election it was called the Reagan Revolution, but it wasn't a revolution only because he defeated Jimmy Carter. The platform that Reagan ran on was also revolutionary for the Republican Party. Before Reagan won the Republican nomination for president that year the party had been dominated by a northeastern elite known as Rockefeller Republicans. This business and ba...

The Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's was rooted in the Black Christian Church. Before Twitter and Facebook organizers would mobilize activist in Churches for demonstrations, protests, and to strategize. This meant the principles of the movement were rooted in Christian values, which meant a commitment to dignity, character, equality for all, and nonviolence. These values are in stark con...

On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous, "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. It had been about a decade since the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and Black America had come a long way in ending segregation, Jim Crow, and disenfranchisement at the polls. In the years ahead MLK would see the passage of a Civil Rights Act,...

America has had many different political parties in its 232 year history. We had the Know Nothing Party, the Socialist Party, the Green Party, and many others. One lesser known party from the 1830’s was the Anti-Masonic Party. It was a precursor of the Republican Party, and as their name suggests they were dedicated to rooting out the influence of Free Masonry in government. They believed the secr...

There is an evil empire on planet earth that seeks to enslave every man, woman, and child on this planet, and usher in a ‘New Order of the Ages’. In the words of the late President John F. Kennedy, this evil empire is “monolithic and ruthless”, and “relies primarily on covert means for expanding it’s sphere of influence —  on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on...

​​In the 1964 presidential election Democrat, Lyndon Baines Johnson received 94 percent of the African American vote in his landslide rout of Barry Goldwater. It was the highest percentage of Black vote that any presidential candidate had ever received at that time. Democrats had been receiving a plurality of the Black vote since 1932, when FDR received 71 percent in his defeat of Herbert Hoover....

The word “whataboutism” was created to gaslight Trump supporters who answer criticisms of Trump by saying “what about Obama?” However, now that Joe Biden is being accused of sexual assault the same people say “what about Trump?” The narrative goes like this, President Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct or sexual assault by over 20 women and he is still president, so why would it matter th...

There are two competing theories on how to win the fight against the novel coronavirus right now, but most Americans only know about one of them. Prominent doctors and specialist from prestigious institutions around the world are on both sides of this debate. However, in the United States there isn’t much of a debate, because only one of these theories is being considered. The orthodox theory is ‘...

When Covid-19 started to spread beyond the boarders of China, and into over 150 nations around the world, many different strategies were employed to fight it. The novel virus had never been seen before and there was no textbook or set criteria for battling it. This lead to a verity of different tactics by nations hit hard in the early spread. Some of the measures were unconventional and risky, and...

We have learned a great deal about epidemics and infectious diseases in the past century, and how to battle them. We have placed an emphasis on public health to minimize risks and set standards for hygiene, sterilization, and disinfection to prevent foodborne contamination. We have developed fields of science to better understand harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, diseases, and how they are tra...

The virus crippling the planet at this time in a global pandemic, the one that has shut down the world economy, crashed markets and tanked entire industries, the virus that has spread to over 120 countries and killed over 10,000 people worldwide thus far, that virus began in the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China, in the capital city of Wuhan. Although, if you call this virus a Chine...

Joe Biden had a spectacular change in fortunes this week in his quest to become President of the United States. His journey on this quest began in 1988, and he ran again in 2008. However, after coming in forth and fifth in two of the first three contest this year, it wasn't until South Carolina last Saturday that he won his first primary. Then 48 hours later he followed by winning 10 more states,...

Exit polls from the first two primary contests in Iowa and New Hampshire showed that the number one issue for Democrat voters was defeating President Trump, and finding a candidate who can do it was most important. It's not surprising. This has been the leading issue for Democrats since the day Trump was elected, and they have sought to remove him from office since the day he was sworn in. Many ti...