Living on the Hill Archives - Uncommon Ground Media

Not Just a Balloon – Does Donald Trump Wear Adult Diapers?

November 8, 2019 | by Dan Fisher | 0 Comments

On the 7th of November, twitter user Max Howroute uploaded a video which purported to show US President Donald Trump wearing adult diapers. Read more

The Massacre of the Kurds is On All Our Hands – Not Just Trump

October 13, 2019 | by CNLifestyle | 0 Comments

The focus on Trump's decision to abandon the Kurds ignores an international community that still fails to protect vulnerable minorities. Read more

In Defence of Victims: Stop Making “Victim” a Bad Word

August 26, 2019 | by Beverly Engel | 0 Comments

The attitude that we should avoid seeing ourselves or others as victims hampers recovery and perpetuates abuse, argues Beverly Engel. Read more

Kiss the Ring: Trump as the Mafia Godfather of the United States

April 27, 2019 | by Joe James Davis | 0 Comments

Donald Trump has often been called a dictator, but if anything he’s closer to a mafia godfather. We must denounce the behaviour of strong men like him. Read more

The Art of Deceit: How Russia Manipulated America into Electing Donald Trump

January 12, 2019 | by Yazeed A. Bunyan | 0 Comments

Russian interference in the United States’ 2016 election follows an established pattern of electoral influence and manipulation by the Kremlin Anyone familiar with the Canadian rock band Idle Eyes would undoubtedly be familiar with their greatest hit, “Tokyo Rose.” After all, it spoke to many men out there who fell in love with a femme […] Read more

Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts: A Missed Opportunity To Unite Voters

December 16, 2018 | by Lysander Stephenson | 0 Comments

Trump’s corporate tax reform – arguably the most important provision in what is colloquially known as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was in retrospect very badly marketed. Intuitively, it seems highly likely that the package of corporate tax cuts alienated Trump’s supporters and thus, in turn, contributed to Republicans’ midterm losses in November. […] Read more

Why So Sad? How Propagandists Use ‘Positivity’ to Keep Us in Check

December 4, 2018 | by Julie Hotard | 0 Comments

Negativity has tremendous power to persuade–which is why propagandists use the distraction of positivity to silence critics who expose them. Read more

The Symbolic Death of John McCain

September 12, 2018 | by Jacob Kishere | 0 Comments

Historians telling the story of the Trump era will undoubtedly remark on the death of John McCain as a moment of immense significance. The corrosive effects of Trump, including the sowing of discord, division and the abandonment of truth are now all too apparent. Both symptom and cause of the decline in decency and civic […] Read more

Orphanaged by Politics: The Unspoken Impact of Trump’s Administration

September 8, 2018 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

Author: Erin Louis At 5 years old, I sat cross-legged on pea-green shag carpet in the den of my southern California home. In the late afternoon sunlight, I looked up to our colour TV to see President Ronald Reagan giving a speech. I had very little, if any grasp on the actual content of his […] Read more

The Narrative of the ‘Lesser of Two Evils’: Is the Left to Blame for Trump?

August 9, 2018 | by Yazeed A. Bunyan | 1 Comments

Leftist purity and its acolytes are protesting against the status quo that they themselves helped create. “She doesn’t care! Voting for the lesser of two evils; there’s no point!” Those were the words of Kaleb Vanfosson, the president of the Students for Bernie club at Iowa State University, in reference to then-candidate of the Democrats […] Read more