Author: craigshields

Trump should have been charged with election tampering the same day.

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During our trip to Mexico, my wife and I were the victims of one of their infamous police “shake-downs,” where those driving cars with U.S. license plates are pulled over, told they had run a stop sign (or committed some …

When Rule of Law Disappears, So Does the Nation Read More »

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In arguing about the existence of God, people have invoked a great number of different lines of reasoning. For my money, the idea that morality cannot exist without God and the threat of eternal punishment is perhaps the lamest of …

Some Arguments for the Existence of God Are Better Than Others Read More »

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This is funny, but it makes an important point: it’s wrong to throw away things that have value to other people. When the intensity of my business career vanished about a decade ago, I gave away four suits, and at …

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Here are some useful tips about book covers. My first two books were #1 Amazon best-sellers in their respective categories, meaning that they both sold a few hundred or perhaps a thousand copies on a certain day. Needless to say, …

Book Covers Read More »

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We need to concede the fact that we live among a vast population of hateful morons, and that there is absolutely nothing that can be done to change that.

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Ever since it became clear to most Americans and virtually everyone else around the world that Trump was essentially a criminal, I’ve been predicting that people all over the globe will be dancing in the streets once he meets justice. …

There’ll Be Dancing, Dancing in the Streets Read More »

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California is a great place to live and work,  and here’s one of the reasons: most of the industrial development focuses on the betterment of our lives.

Good cartoon here. Few people believe in hell; this is fortunate because as Bertrand Russell pointed out, speaking of the defects of Christ’s character, no truly compassionate person can believe in eternal punishment. That notwithstanding, the fortune-teller has nailed Trump’s …

Where Is Trump Going Next? Read More »

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Silicon Valley icon Vivek Wadhwa makes an excellent point here. The problem, however, is late-stage, unregulated capitalism and the greed that it has hammered into our society.  There are people who do things for altruistic reasons, and Wadhwa happens to …

Which Way, Humankind? Read More »

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