Author: craigshields

For the record, she actually did say this.

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Every few days, we learn about the end of another government program that, for years, has served to protect the environment, save consumers money, preserve our health and safety. What type of life will be available to Americans after another …

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Just kidding. Though this situation with Ashli Babbitt is, of course, totally outrageous, it’s really just par for the course under Trump. I try not to lose control of my emotions, as tempting as it may be to explode.

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I was speaking with some friends earlier today about the decline in demand for plant-based meat, e.g., Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat.  They suggested that perhaps these companies have insufficient PR, but I countered that the intensely negatively PR funded …

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I doubt there is a definitive answer to the question that a reader poses at left, but here’s how I’ve been dealing with this issue since I was a boy: A couple: 2 A few: 3 – 4 Several: 5 …

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Apparently, the author of the meme here doesn’t know  that 2023 marked the sixth straight year that the United States led the world in oil production.

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The modern-day Republican party is doing everything in its power to remove regulations that are aimed at protecting the environment, and right now, they’re having a field day, due to our nation’s rejection of science. But what happens when the …

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This isn’t physically impossible, but it’s extremely impractical. I strongly doubt any serious person or group is wasting time on this.

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In my recent post called “86,”  I told the story about how my father liked to use the Army lingo he’d learned in 1942 when he entered WW II.  He explained to my brother and me that it meant to …

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When my brother and I were little, our father took great delight in amusing us with lingo he learned in basic training, prior to his being commissioned into the Army Air Force as a bomber pilot in WW II. One …

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