Author: craigshields

He is defined by his cruelty. Nothing like this could have ever been possible earlier in U.S. history, because Americans didn’t have the stomach for it.  Now we eat it up with a spoon.  

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Here in the U.S., there are states that require ID each time you vote.  Most states don’t, because you needed ID, including proof of citizenship, to register to vote when you turned 18.  The United States had no problem with …

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When I was a schoolboy, I remember clearly the distinct impressions I formed about where some of my teachers stood politically. We had the occasional “hard-ass” who was almost definitely a conservative, some of whom might even be Trump supporters …

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As usual, Fox News and its viewers have a distinctly twisted way of looking at the world.  A few comments: Why poll people on their perceptions of what groceries cost?  The price of groceries in the United States either is …

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Here, Donald Trump claims that mail-in voting automatically means fraud, and that Colorado has a particular problem in that the state has gone to 100% mail-in voting. As anyone could have foreseen, however, there are a couple of major issues: …

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There are grown-up people on this planet who believe that more energy can be pulled out of a system than we put into the system.  This supposed hydrogen-powered Norwegian ship at left ostensibly: 1) Starts with seawater 2) Uses electricity …

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The words at left are 100% correct. Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.

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Re: the meme at left, I would draw a different conclusion: it’s possible that the United States has lost its appetite for lies, cruelty, and stupidity. Trumpism just may be on its way out.

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Thank you, Bill. Well, there are two good reasons for this: Big cities have lots of people living in them; rural areas are sparsely populated.  It might be worth looking up “city” and “rural.” The people living in cities tend …

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Poor choice. Cincinnati has lots of affluent, well-educated people. Other parts of Ohio would have elected Vance’s brother as king.

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