Good advice to religious leaders: Don’t promote the mutual exclusivity of faith and reason. Go back to the good old days where religion and science were compatible. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz were collectively known as the “rationalists.” Good times! Do …
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Trump Pledges to Make America Great Again
Here’s where we are, folks. Almost half our nation eats up Trump’s rhetoric with a spoon.
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More on Presidential Immunity
Earlier today, I had the opportunity to ask some old prep-school chums about something I consider to be absurd: the U.S. Supreme Court’s considering the idea that the president of the United States should enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution. One …
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Reforming the Republican Party
I know absolutely nothing about the strategizing that must be going on inside the Republican party, but one has to think that some smart people realize that the GOP’s current course, MAGA/Trumpism, is not sustainable, and that an alternative must …
People Have a Hard Time Accepting, Even Privately, That They’ve Been Conned, and Making That Admission in Public Simply Won’t Happen
What Glinda is saying here is true, of course. Trump may be convicted of all the charges in the other three indictments (and maybe more to come), and most of his followers will forever maintain that their hero was innocent, …
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Americans Like to Think of Their Country as Free, But Get This
In 2023, the United States received an 83 on a scale from 0 to 100 on the Freedom Awards, from an organization called “FreedomHouse.” That placed us #17 of the 200+ sovereign nations on Earth. Not bad, but what would …
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No More Law Career for Rudy Guiliani, But How Bad Is That?
By the time the prosecutors in the RICO case in Georgia get finished with Guiliani, a license to practice law will be of no more value to him than a diploma in devil worship. He either flips on Trump and …
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Making Nixon Look Like a Saint
My mom and I have been talking about presidential immunity lately, as I can’t think of an idea that more directly confounds what the Founding Fathers intended in terms of rule of law and the concept of a monarchy as …
How Could Trump Possibly Have Fallen into This Mess?
Funny meme here. Seriously, however, many Trump supporters disbelieve that their hero lost to Biden by seven million votes, purely on the basis that the president didn’t do rallies with hats and flags.
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Belief in Science
In my limited experience, even the most unintelligent and backwards people say they believe in science but contend (because this is what their online “research” has taught them), that disciplines like epidemiology and climate change are driven by money and …
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