Author: craigshields

In the note at left Robert Reich reminds us that Trump’s supporters must be under great emotional stress to take this man seriously.  Every day brings us new adventures in complete insanity. As we all learned in Psych 101, cognitive …

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A lady asked me to define existentialism the other day, and the words at left are essentially what I told her. Some people find this concept depressing, i.e., that we live in a universe that is coldly indifferent to our …

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The reader who sent me this asked if found what Macgregor wrote here to be offensive. Let me preface my response: I clearly remember Douglas Macgregor from my K-12 education at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, even though he …

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The resident of a tornado-devastated town in rural Mississippi in this video seems perplexed:  If president Trump promised to help Americans first, how is it possible that, two months after the disaster, there hasn’t been a single FEMA person on …

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From “Occupy Democrats”:  Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (pictured) crushes MAGA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for whining about the Biden administration instead of planning for the future: “We have zip! Nada!” “The challenge is our department under the previous administration squandered …

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If one were to rank each of the American presidents from first to last in terms of respect for our troops, I suppose that Washington, Lincoln, or Eisenhower would be at the top.  Trump would most certainly be last, and …

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Progressives tend to be sympathetic people.  By definition, we feel others’ pain and we do what we can to alleviate it. Having said that, I don’t think I know a single soul who feels sorry for the guy here.

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Most Americans want a government that performs useful services, and as shown at left, they’re not too happy with what they’re seeing at this point.

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If you want to know how screwed the United States is at this point, you don’t have to look too much further than this.

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The meme here reminds me of an incident when my kids were young, and loved to have my wife and me take them to one of the many beaches along the Southern California coast. Apparently, the particular spot on the …

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