Author: craigshields

In addition to Trump’s being recognized, at last, as a career criminal, part of what has taken him down is his adoration of two of the most ruthless mass murderers we’ve seen over the past half-century: Vladimir Putin and Xi …

Trump’s Praise of the World’s Great Autocrats Worked for a While, Before It Didn’t Read More »

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What does it mean when the President of the United States meets and congratulates Kyle Rittenhouse, a deranged young killer of sympathizers of the BLM movement? At the very least, it takes a society that previously regarded itself as sane …

Celebrating Murder Read More »

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As shown in this video, there is a radical faction of Christians who are desperate to refashion the government of the United States according to scripture. This gentleman’s assertion that America is doomed to destruction if it does not start …

How Much Danger Is Posed by Fanatical Christians? Read More »

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It’s hard to know if Trump’s unflagging attacks on his enemies are a) part of a deliberate, personal policy, b) a neurotic compulsion, or c) a combination of the two. In any case, the good news is that this asinine …

Explaining Trump Read More »

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What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on. How sad that the Republicans have found yet another community of people to hate.

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From a reader: I’m from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I am a former Republican. Basically, I was a Republican my whole life until about 2018 where I couldn’t accept being a Republican anymore. The Republican party now is nothing like it used to …

A Former Republican Rejects His Party Read More »

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Ultra-right-wing whack-job “news” source Newsmax is conducting a survey (see left). If someone were asking people to weigh in on: “Should Trump have been charged with 34 country of falsifying business records?” that may have been interesting.  But he’s clearly …

Is Trump Guilty? Of Course Read More »

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There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials. One is that they know exactly who we are, and have concluded that we offer them no value.  …

Why No Aliens? Read More »

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Here’s a deeply moving video that seems to  be making the rounds. The business world around us is bombarding us with messages 24 hours per day, on a relentless quest to tell us what we should be thinking, and, course, …

Detaching from Corporate Messaging and Learning to Think for Ourselves Read More »

Here are two ways of saying essentially the same thing, that come from a pair of human history’s greatest minds. As we work our way through the 21st Century, we’re running into the effects of the widening chasm between the …

Two Observations on the Viability of Human Civilization Read More »

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