At left are the words of U.S. representative Adam Schiff. Sure, conservatives view Schiff as some sort of blend of the anti-Christ and Karl Marx, but doesn’t he have a point here? Didn’t the American people have a right to have …
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What the American People Need to Take Away from Trump’s Flipping Off the U.S. Justice Department
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The Unelected Bureaucracy
When people like Ramaswamy are taken to be serious candidates to become president of the United States, it can only be because the people they’re speaking to are morons. It’s a grotesque truth–but one we’re forced to accept.
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Trump and U.S. Foreign Relations
The author of this meme asks a very good question–one I would love to have answered before I check out of here. If you surveyed everyone who voted against Trump, I think you’ve find four prevalent responses: • Trump has …
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Haunted by Disappointment
Perhaps there were times in U.S. history when government failed the people in a way that was not too different from what we have today. I heard recently that the robber-barons of the late 19th Century were so corrupt that …
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Which Generation of Americans Was “The Best?”
This photo appears to have been taken about the same year I was these kids’ age, ca. 1965. It depicts white and black school students , all standing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. What made this generation “the best?” …
Concerned About “Dirty Energy?”
Trump plans to nominate Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and environmental policy skeptic, to be the next energy secretary. Wright plans to slow the process of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewables, and is perhaps best known for …
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Satisfying Our Thirst for Knowledge
I can’t deny that the scenario here happened occasionally. What happened to me personally, is that if I had a burning desire to know something, I’d ask a teacher of that specific discipline, or perhaps my grandfather, who was a …
How Many Americans Are Hitting the Road?
Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have left the United States with no plans to return. It would be interesting to know how many Americans have made the same decision, though, for most people, expatriating comes at huge …
Math and Physics
This lady expresses exactly what I try to tell kids who think they hate (or are terrified of) physics but are good at math. Physics is just math applied to the real world. If I’m tutoring someone who’s taken first-year …
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Fossil Fuels Are Going to be Hard to Beat
Fossil fuel lobbyists are actually the largest single contingent of the COP (Conference of Parties on climate change) meetings. Sure, there are government entities, environmental protection organizations, the big players in solar, wind, energy storage, electric transportation, and so on, …
