Reader Marv Werlinger writes: I like reliable power. Coal and nuclear. Hydro-electric, very good. Limit wind and solar because they are reliably unreliable when you need them most. Keep oil and gas. We can’t afford not to keep our energy …
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Understanding the U.S. Consumer Economy
If you’d like some insight into what’s happening in the airline industry and how it affects its customers, I recommend the video linked here. Please note that the trends that former labor secretary Robert Reich identifies here cross over into …
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Respecting Those Who Protect Us
In response to the meme here, Eddy Oriente Balzola writes: Not when they act like thugs. Otherwise, respect indeed. Exactly, Eddy. All good people respect soldiers and police personnel, but, at the same time, hold them accountable for abiding by …
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Boycotting Home Depot
I haven’t spent a dime in a Home Depot in decades. I hope readers feel and act the same.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Perfectly Predictable
This from writer/journalist Jake Sherman. It’s hard to be shocked by any element of Speaker Mike Johnson’s behavior, and his protecting a criminal is just one example.
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Investing in America’s Future
Here, Frederick Douglass provides us one of the best justifications for investment in quality education. We’re raising a generation of people who are going to be unable to compete in the global economy, and have tendencies towards racism, violence, and …
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American Stupidity
The author of the meme here makes a good point. But we need to consider cruelty and callousness as well. Stupid and/or mean. Preferably both.
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Why Trumpism Is So Entrenched
The thought expressed here represents a serious challenge for humankind, and it’s precisely the mechanism that keeps Trumpism so firmly rooted in place. The MAGA crowd is organized in lockstep around the principles of hate, violence, and exclusion. As MLK …
Climate Change “Insanity?”
A reader notes: Bravo! Hats off to Alberta Canada for standing up against the climate change insanity being foisted on them by their federal government. Alberta is Canada’s largest oil producing province, providing 79.2% of Canadian oil production. But I’m …
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Republicans and the Truth
Here’s a video that challenges Republicans to speak up as to which side of the truth they stand on. “Any (GOP politician) one who says that the election was stolen is lying to America.” Doesn’t get any more direct than …
