The reader who sent this comments: Trump tries to explain that his tariffs needn’t be a financial burden. Just buy less stuff. You don’t need all that extravagance. More to the point, doesn’t the strength of the economy depend on …
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The Audience for PBS
Re: the discussion at left, it’s more than a stupid question; it’s outrageously condescending. Are you trying to tell me that the coal miner and his family isn’t interested in the content presented on PBS? Nature, current events, history, art, …
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Legacy Media Must Die?
Journalism is the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It seems that the Founding Fathers believed that protecting the free press was a pretty good idea. When the richest man on Earth says, “legacy media must die,” …
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Trump and the Price of Gasoline
In a recent message to America, Donald Trump boasted how dramatically gas prices have fallen, pointing out that the national average price has now fallen under the $2.00 per gallon mark. As anyone could have guessed, this is a lie; …
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The Intentions of the Chinese Are Clear
Re: the meme here, I’d say both are correct, if you delete the word “devious.” There’s nothing devious about this at all; the Chinese have been trying to take over the world for the last 6000 years, and Trump’s arrogance and …
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Trump Critics Erupt?
Trump Critics Erupt. Not this one. What’s the point of reacting to this buffoonery? Our president is a sick clown. We all know that.
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How Liars and Crackpots Threaten Us All
The words in yellow at left come from Neil Stone, doctor of infectious diseases, in rebuttal of those of RFK, Jr. Coincidentally, I have a fine friend from boyhood who’s also an infectious diseases doctor, and even more coincidentally, he …
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What Breakfast Is Supposed to Contain
Sorry, but I didn’t know that breakfast was supposed to be constructed of products that come from large mammals. Did this come from the bible? When you go downstairs to breakfast from your hotel room in Tokyo, you’re greeted with …
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Who ARE These People?
As previously discussed, there are tens of millions of American voters whose loyalty to Trump is independent of anything the man says or does, regardless of how clearly insane and overtly damaging to our nation and its people. This simply …
Trump’s First Hundred Days
There are some people who think that this country has just experienced “100 days of greatness,” but there sure as hell aren’t many of them.
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