Many Americans remember John Kasich from the 2016 Republican primaries. He stood out from the crowd of perhaps 15 or 16 hopefuls, largely for his sane and decent nature. Here we are, seven years later, and the Republican party has …
Author: craigshields
DeSantis Having It All His Way in Terms of Media Coverage
Here’s an article that makes an excellent point: the coverage of Ron DeSantis, both positive and negative, is directed almost completely to the hot-button issues that the candidate’s handlers want to focus on: wokeness, LGBTQ rights, and immigration. No one …
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Tagged with: coverage of Ron DeSantis
Thoughts and Prayers
I’m sure there are thousands of memes circulating that point out the worthlessness of “thoughts and prayers,” imploring our elected officials to protect us, and especially our children, from having our bodies ripped to bits by weapons of war in …
Tagged with: weapons of war
Investing in Oil and Gas?
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How American Doctors Must Treat Disease
The point of the “survey” here, of course, is to goad ignorant people into claiming that doctors can say and do anything they like, by way of treating disease, because their free speech is protected under the First Amendment to …
Tagged with: American Medical Association, free speech protected under the First Amendment, QAnon and dozens of other anti-science groups, rapid progress the scientific community is making vis-à-vis vaccination protocols and other safety measures, the lethality of the early variants of COVID-19, threat COVID-19 poses to our entire civilization
What Unites Trump Supporters
What we’re looking at here is people of terrible character. Trump supporters, by definition, approve of racism, lies, and criminality. Are they all pedophiles? Of course not. But it’s a good bet that every one of them has some enormous …
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Are We Trapped Inside Trumpism?
Here’s a brief stand-up comic routine that speaks so wonderfully to the American culture here in 2023. As you watch it, I’m sure you’ll have the same realizations that I did, i.e., it explains the entirety of Trumpism: I have …
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Dodges Questions Artfully
When we see a video like the one here, in which an Australian reporter dismembers Sarah Huckabee Sanders, we have to think how woefully unprepared we are to enter politics at any level. When asked how Sanders reconciles the Christian …
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Big Guns Are a Seemingly Permanent Feature of American Life
The game industry was no match for the legislation that ultimately banned “Jarts,” the lawn game of the late 20th Century, a cross between horseshoes and darts, when a tragic accident took the life of a child. The gun industry, …
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The Root of Bigotry
As we can see here, the root of bigotry is fear, at least according to Bertrand Russell. Unfortunately, American politics has taken us to a place where fear abounds, one in which we’re worried about inflation, China, the “radical left,” …
Tagged with: collapse of our environment
