From the Wall Street Journal: The Biden administration enacted the strictest-ever rules for tailpipe emissions but also handed the auto industry a significant concession by giving them more time to comply, a recognition that the transition to electric cars will …
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Trump’s Base of Big Donors….
…. seems to have dried up. Perhaps this is explained by the famous line that actor George C. Scott delivered in his 1970 film portrayal of “Patton”: “American loves a winner, and America will not tolerate a loser. The very …
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Trump and Suburban Women
Most American women who live within, say, 25 miles of downtown anywhere are educated and career-oriented. They deeply resent the Republicans’ far-right position on abortion, and oppose most of the other principles of Trumpism, e.g., white nationalism, the rejection of …
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Whackos Are Free to Wield Their Ignorance
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it, photos like the one here are evidence that we live in a country with a) free speech and b) failed education. Here, you’re free to believe in things like the flat Earth, chemtrails, …
Trumpism and Education Levels
There has been much discussion concerning the relationship between educational levels and political leanings. There is no doubt, for instance, that one is more likely to encounter a Trump supporter running a hardware store in rural Mississippi than teaching cardiology …
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Innovation in America: What It Could Have Meant
The numbers at left re-enforce my belief that Lincoln should have accepted the secession of the Confederacy in 1861, telling them: So long. Sorry your slaves will have to suffer, but it won’t be long until you, a pariah nation, …
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Warning from Dan Rather re: Trump
Retired news journalist Dan Rather notes: Momentum appears to have moved in the direction of Biden/Harris. But with the election still months away, we need to remind ourselves that everyone who cares about the country needs to pay attention and …
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Biden Won’t Be a Dictator: Good to Know
I had to laugh when I saw this, and how illustrative it is of the conditions of abject stupidity in which this country lives right now. Sure, all presidential campaigns seek to make the differences between a candidate and his …
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Trump Lies, But No One Cares
Is someone suggesting that there should be some factual accuracy in what Trump says? If he’s proven anything since his arrival on the U.S. political scene, it’s that lies are just as good as the truth in the minds of …
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America Really Didn’t Like Hillary Clinton
America could never warm up to Hillary, though this never made sense to most of us. “What exactly don’t you like about her?” we’d ask. A reader notes: What a loss for America when we lost her as POTUS. And …
