We all need to admit that there are extremely intelligent people at both ends of the political spectrum. George Will, archconservative is about as far to the right as a person can be. American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and …
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American Politics Is Upside Down
Now everything’s a little upside down As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good You’ll find out when you reach the top You’re on the bottom – Bob Dylan There …
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Fox News Kills Controversial Ad
The anti-Trump group MeidasTouch made this TV commercial on the January 6th insurrection and did an ad buy on Fox News. At the last minute, Fox refused to air it. And that somehow comes as a surprise?
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Effects of Biden’s Keystone Pipeline Cancellation
I had a talk with a Republican the other day who told me that Biden, worse than buying oil from the Russians, destroyed America’s domestic oil production on his first day in office. It took me a few moments to …
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What’s the End Game for Putin
Of course, it’s far too early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine to know where this whole thing is going to land, but it’s interesting to note that the International Criminal Court has already set its sights on war criminal …
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It’s Justice Time for Trump
My 95-year-old mother and I speak on the phone frequently, and most of these conversations, when we’ve exhausted family matters, turn to politics. I try to tread lightly here. Mom is a Fox News acolyte (though she reads mainstream media …
We Don’t Need To Live in Mud Huts
Re: the photos here, a (sarcastic) reader asks: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back? Actually, yes. That is, if our individual carbon footprints and other impacts on the environment were …
Can Life on Earth Take Care of Itself?
Here’s a reader with a distinctly negative reaction of climate activists. She writes: I want to stop being demonized by people with bad intent and too much time on their hands who use social media to scare people or point …
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“We’re Thinking About a Peaceful Planet”
There are people who think this way, but not enough. We’ve been programmed, and quite effectively, to accept war as part of human civilization. This is all re-enforced by things like the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I think of myself …
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Collapse in U.S. Educational Standards–What It Means
From senior energy analyst and social observer Glenn Doty: “The (Program for International Student Assessment) PISA results showed that 20 percent of American 15-year-olds don’t read as well as they should by age 10. Also, the results showed American performance …
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