It’s because most poor people were denied access to quality education, and, as a consequence, tend to be bamboozled by ruthless people. This produces the counter-intuitive fact that we should feel sorry for Trump supporters. How would you like to go through …
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Why Vegans Don’t Eat Meat
Let me take a stab at answering this stupid question. Meat tastes good. There are good reasons not to eat hamburgers, but “because they taste bad” isn’t one of them. Btw, Gene Wilder would turn over in his grave if …
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Religion and Science
One Jim Palmer wrote an essay on the meme here that begins: Theology isn’t the free search for truth, but rather a defense of an already held position. No Jewish rabbi will come to the conclusion that the Hopi are …
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Another Hillsdale College “Survey”
When readers ask me to comment on ideas like the one expressed in the meme here from Hillsdale College, my first response is to ask: Well, is America in fact the freest and most prosperous nation in history? The answer, …
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Sick of Woke People? This May Be for You.
Apparently, there is a social media platform available to those who resent “woke” people, where participants can discuss a great variety, including gardening and poetry. I have to confess that I have a morbid curiosity about this. What type of …
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Folks, This Is Unsustainable
A sustainable society is one that meets its own needs without preventing future generations from meeting theirs. So, what can happen to make a society unsustainable? We normally think of environmental issues like pollution, climate change, over-fishing, etc. Yet consider …
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Trump and Evangelicals Appear to be Parting Ways
We all know that Donald Trump has the emotional maturity of a spoiled eight-year-old and is incapable of controlling his temper whenever someone mentions a disparaging word about him. But when the source of such a word is the community …
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From ABC News: At Least 74 Illinois Sheriff’s Departments Vow to Defy State Assault Weapons Ban
From this: At least 74 Illinois sheriff’s departments have publicly vowed to defy elements of a recent gun-control law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, which banned assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and switches. The officers have vowed to not check if …
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Why Is It Disloyal to Side with Russia? Ooh! Ooh! Call on Me!
I’ll “wait a second,” then mention that Russia is: • An avowed enemy of the U.S., with nuclear weapons aimed at each one of our population centers • A brutal dictatorship, imprisoning and torturing its dissenters • Waging an aggressive …
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Ignorance Ultimately Brings Violence
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to violence. That is the equation.” Access to high quality public education is absolutely critical to our ability, as Americans, to reverse the course of all the horrific behavior that …
