Interesting stuff here. Yes, thinking optimistically, it’s possible that there are young people who were raised to think that Republicans were the party of solid “family” values, only to learn to their disgust that these principles are actually lies, hate, …
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One Sex Trafficker Is Sentenced–But What About the Others?
This is the guy who, we were told, flipped on Matt Gaetz in order to receive a lesser sentence. At this point, one fears that Gaetz was somehow successful in avoiding prosecution. That would be a travesty.
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Power, Greed, and Personal Ambition
History provides us with hundreds of different comments as to the cause of societal evils. What ancient Athenian historian and general Thucydides says here is quite consistent with the others’ observations. Sadly, there are people who look at Donald Trump …
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NY Times: “Verdict in Trump Organization Trial Could Come Down to Three Little Words”
From this piece in the New York Times: Despite all the talk of fancy apartments, free Mercedes-Benzes and cash flowing at Christmastime, the criminal tax fraud trial of Donald J. Trump’s family business could come down to three mundane words: …
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Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
Dr. Alex Cannara is best known for his work promoting nuclear energy as a technology that he claims is absolutely essential if we are to control global warming before its effects become catastrophic and irreversible. Sadly, most environmentalists are rabidly …
Deforestation
A reader sent this in with the text; “This one piece 204 foot mast all came from a single fir tree. And, these days we scramble to find a 40 foot piece that’s half worth having.” But I rather wonder …
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Bizarre Times in America
The guilty findings against the top people at the Oath Keepers and the long prison sentences that will be meted out may stand as something of a deterrent against future insurrections. The idiot with the swastika shirt and the Nazi …
Should the U.S. Be Helping Ukraine Defend Itself?
I’m always interested in speaking with my mom about politics, as it gives me a summary of what the Fox News talking points have been over the intervening days since our last conversation. Last night it was Ukraine–the folly of …
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Trump’s Degradation Knows No Limits
The presence of Mitt Romney in U.S. politics serves as a reminder that there still exists a percentage of Republicans, albeit a small one, that have retained some measure of class and sanity.
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Here’s One from Trump’s Playbook
It appears that Donald Trump isn’t the only brazen criminal who bilks his supporters out of their hard-earned money to pay for illegitimate lawsuits.
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