Author: craigshields

“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance claimed during an interview …

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There’s an old Quaker saying that goes like this: “Concern thyself not with the speck in thine brother’s eye when thy hast a log in thine own.” Sounds like legitimate advice for a man whose state has the nation’s highest …

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When a right-of-center newspaper calls out a Republican president for his moral atrocities, you know something very strange is happening in the good ol’ US of A.

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Legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken once said, “Caring for our planet isn’t a way to get rich.  It’s a way to be rich.” When I read the first sentence of the meme here, that’s the message that I thought I was …

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Apparently, happiness derives from taking care of one another and the planet. It’s part of what it means to be human to want to live in a society that actually cares about others; it’s natural to our species. Conversely, it’s …

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Retired US military intelligence officer and freelance writer Jim Wright gives us the gem at left. He has a point here, but sadly, about half the country doesn’t get it.

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Have to admire this guy’s sense of humor. We can’t give up, but enjoying an occasional laugh about the situation may actually be a good idea.

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According to NPR: The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island. The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a …

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Re: the words at left, it depends on whom you ask.  In fact, the only reason we’re destroying our planet is that there are plenty of people whose main interest is the profit associated with doing so.

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In his heyday, John Cleese and his sardonic wit had great appeal, not only with the Brits, but even with Americans. It’s unclear how all this would play in today’s dumbed-down U.S. society.    

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