One reason that gun laws are so difficult to enact here in the U.S. is Americans’ belief that offering “thoughts and prayers” to the victims’ families is a worthwhile response to having their little child’s body blown to bits by …
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Americans’ Priorities
As suggested in this brilliant cartoon, when most Americans go to the polls in 2024, climate change mitigation will not be at the top of their list of priorities. Having said that, Biden has done more than any of his …
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Jamie Dimon Urges Even Liberals to Back Nikki Haley as Alternative to Trump
The headline here is taken from this article in Bloomberg. A few quick points: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, leads a company that, since the adoption of the Paris agreement, has sat at the top of …
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Socialism Is Coming, But What Does That Mean?
Americans tends to overlook the fact that all of us benefit a great deal from our government’s programs. Few of us spend any time at all asking ourselves where capitalism ends and socialism begins, or vice versa. Snow removal is …
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Has Trumped Crossed a Psychiatric Line?
Apparently, a psychiatrist believes that Trump’s mental condition has made a quantum step toward insanity, based on his Veterans’ Day speech that included: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left …
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No Children?
Throughout the millennia, couples have been opting not to have children, and for many, the reason has been reluctance to bring boys and girls into a hostile and cruel world. IMO, this way of thinking has been heightened by climate …
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Trump Proud of Traitorous Intentions
The most horrifying part of all this is he openly admits this. Normally, those trying to overthrow a world government keep their true intentions secret as long as possible. Here, those intentions are part of his campaign platform.
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China Solar
According to this article in Bloomberg, China is making enormous progress in its effort to install solar PV in the north part of the country, near Mongolia. This is a critical step for the entire world in mitigating climate change, …
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How Important Is Reducing Emissions?
Here’s Exxon’s survey on the subject. What purpose does it serve? Well, if most people either a) don’t understand the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, or b) reject what our scientists are telling us, the oil giant …
Teachers Form the Foundation of What Our Society Will Look Like 10 Years Hence
What we’ve done to our teachers, in terms of underpaying them, putting them in harm’s way, and cutting off their means to discipline our children, is deplorable. We get precisely the next generation of idiots and juvenile delinquents we so …
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