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 …
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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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Fox News: Civil War Brewing Over Trump’s Convictions
Here’s an article from Fox News: Stephen A. Smith reacts to Trump’s guilty verdict, says it ‘all points to civil war.’ Well, here are a few legitimate questions, I believe: When will it begin? There were more people milling around …
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Hydrogen and Battery Electric Vehicles
Here’s conclusion from a recent report from my colleague Renaldo Brutoco on battery EVs (BEVs) and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs (FCEVs): As we continue to advance towards a low-carbon future, both BEVs and FCEVs will play pivotal roles. By embracing both …
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Conservatives and Climate Change
This from Norm Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. Good for a conservative to put science in front of politics and religion. Also, good for a conservative to give a damn …
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Oil Companies May Soon Be Forced to Pay for the Long-Term Environmental Damage They’re Wreaking
Will the oil companies attack the living hell out of Vermont’s new law? Of course. Will the legislation survive the onslaught of law suits that Big Oil brings against it? Probably not. But the point is that it’s the first …
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How U.S. Media Covers Controversial Topics
In our media, the decision re: what to cover is just as important as how to cover it. Of course, sometimes a subject simply cannot be ignored, like Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts concerning election interference / business …
Evaluating Nikki Haley
A reader notes: I’ll be honest. I feel like I overestimated her. Isn’t that the God’s-honest truth? It’s hard to think of anyone less impressive than a progressive who turns into a Trump supporter, especially when it’s purely for political …
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Note on Poor Grammar
I listened to a Ted Talk the other day that was given by a linguist and university professor of English, whose point was that the language is always changing, and that we shouldn’t be so rigid in our interpretation of …
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