The whole world is hoping desperately that the United States can recover from the plunge it’s taken into hatred and ignorance. When and if this happens, Planned Parenthood will resume helping tens of millions of girls and women with their …
Author: craigshields
How Trump’s America Is Regarded Overseas
In an average month, I meet probably five people who traveled here from another country. Unless there is a good reason to avoid the topic, I like to ask how Trump is regarded at home. Universally, the answer is that …
Here’s How Stupid We Are
Don’t you just love the mom’s eyes in this political cartoon?
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Humanitarianism in the Papacy
Pope Leo is continuing–and expanding–the trend in the Catholic Church towards compassion for all of humankind. This, of course, runs afoul of Trump and the MAGA base that, for instance, regards immigrants as “vermin.”
Yes, Leaving this Dying Country Would Preserve Our Sanity
Many us who would like to see Trump removed from office and criminally prosecuted would love to leave the filth and shame that the president has wrought upon us and move to places like New Zealand. Why are we not …
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Trump: a Terrible Person
I laughed out loud when he first came on the political scene. I called my mother immediately and asked, “Isn’t it pretty much a requirement that a presidential candidate be at least a fairly decent human being? This guy is …
No Such Thing as a “Dumb Question”
There is nothing dumb about the question posed at left. Democracies fail, falling into “banana republics” constantly. The rate at which democracies become tyrannies is so great that some of them never make the news. Can you tell me anything …
Artificial Stupidity?
We all understand that there are ultra-conservatives living all around us, but does anyone truly believe that our schoolteachers are ruining our society by teaching children the truth about U.S. and world history? Science? Current events? Slavery and Jim Crow …
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Manufacturing More Hatred
Isn’t there enough hatred in the world without proactively generating more? Could this be wrongly attributed to Atkinson?
Reparations
Here’s an idea: Give all descendants of slaves free college, with stipends, like they do in northern Europe. Within a generation, we’ll have millions of young, highly educated black people, contributing to the work force at much higher levels than …
