Author: craigshields

The message at left is true. Everything that is free in this country: roads, bridges, tunnels, firefighting, national defense, embassies, air traffic control, food safety, libraries, public schools, FEMA, criminal justice and corrections, law enforcement, OSHA, auto safety, disease control, …

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I admit that there is a great deal I don’t understand about the United States at this point, but here’s something that completely eludes me: Trump just commuted the seven+-year prison sentence of George Santos, convicted of wire fraud and …

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At left are some wonderful pieces of advice, though I would guess that at least 99% of the participants in the rally are already coming in with precisely these viewpoints. I was amused by this comment:  Please keep President Trump …

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A proponent of the wind turbine shown at left writes: I commented this 6 year’s ago . It is so simple even if you put in small stream 1 000 000 small turbines like this one, you will have more …

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Here’s a conversation that illustrates the impasse in which this country finds itself. In response to the “We hate what Trump is doing to (America), we have: We in the army of Christian builders disagree with you. President Trump Republican …

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At the rate we’re going, there won’t be a single law-abiding institution left in the entire federal government by the time 2028 rolls around.

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I just saw a question on social media: do you want your tax dollars going to feed someone else’s kids?? Yes.  I’d like to live in a world in which no kids go hungry, and I don’t have a problem …

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I’m not too sure about this.  What about all the teachers, scientists, college students, healthcare professionals, retirees, corporate employees, government workers, librarians, park rangers, entertainment professionals, restaurant employees, and airline workers? Yet there are millions of Americans who take the …

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I think it’s also fair to say that the Founding Fathers never thought the U.S. electorate would have disintegrated into hundreds of millions of greedy pigs and hateful idiots, that would fully support a criminal conman.

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Condemning horrific behavior is better than writing it off as acts of “boys will be boys.” Yet the problem lies in the fact that, condemned or not, it’s what the Republican party is dealing with in the year 2025: a …

Top GOP Officials Condemn Republicans Who Support Hitler, Etc. Read More »

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