The caption: The Earth and Moon as seen by the Cassini probe from Saturn’s orbit. All of humanity in one small dot in space. A reminder of what Carl Sagan said about a photo of Earth from space he called …
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Trump and God’s Will
My thanks to the reader who suggested this to me: Is it possible that God’s will actually is being done?
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Trump Supporters Won’t Budge
That a president tried to overthrow the government is not particularly surprising. Those in power have a natural inclination to remain in power, and this type of activity happens constantly in countries all around the globe. What’s amazing is that …
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Religion and Science
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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