Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years. Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for …
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The Evidence Against Trump Is Enormous, and Growing Every Day
Here’s just one more reason that Trump is going down: people are starting to “put two and two together.” No matter how stupid you are, you know that lying under oath has serious criminal consequences. And then you ask yourself …
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Criminal Arguments Should Aim for the Obvious
Apparently, Jerry Blackwell, the prosecutor in the George Floyd murder trial, left jurors with these final words before deliberation began: “The truth of the matter is that the reason (Floyd) is dead is because (his murderer Derek) Chauvin’s heart was …
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Two-Thirds of Americans Say Justice Department Must Charge Trump
This figure is up markedly from the 52% who felt this way six weeks ago, but that was before the January 6th Committee’s televised hearings. In an earlier post, I wrote that this percentage will top out at a certain …
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Democracy Carried On
This is true, but it would be quite silly to believe that the attack is over. If Trump is not punished, every would-be dictator from here on will have a green light to doing what he wants to take over …
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Funding Education
Nothing says “we simply don’t care about the future of our kids” any louder than our cutting funding for public education.
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Trump Faces Justice, But When Will the DoJ Pounce?
In 2016, U.S. voters elected a truly evil man to become the most powerful person on Earth. Four years later, a sufficient number of the folks had realized Trump’s true nature and that his re-election campaign was doomed to defeat, …
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Reason, Logic, and Gun Laws
This is what’s known in logic as a “false dilemma” or “false dichotomy.” No one is calling for the Second Amendment to be abolished. Does anyone think that the Founding Fathers would have protected the rights of deranged teenagers to …
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A Common Discussion
I would love to know how many times the conversation here has played itself out across this great nation of ours. It would also be interesting to know how many children of parents who watch Fox “News” have worried that …
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New Jeopardy! Champ Is an Attorney for The Sierra Club
From the Sierra Club: Tune in to Jeopardy tonight to see Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program Staff Attorney Megan Wachspress! Megan is an associate attorney with the Beyond Coal Campaign. Before joining the Sierra Club, Megan worked at a public …
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