In a recent speech, Donald Trump Jr. told young conservatives: “Following the peaceful part of the Bible has ‘gotten us nothing.’ First, let’s look at the irony of a member of today’s far-right wing, especially a member of the Trump …
Author: craigshields
No, Idiots, the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Insurrections
When I come across news items that appear so outrageous as to be impossible, the first thing I do is verify that it wasn’t simply fabricated. This turns out to be true: the attorney for four members of the Proud …
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How Close Are We To Indictments Against Trump?
It’s all speculation. Making a call to a hotel on January 5th is perhaps an important start, but it’s not going to get the job done. Our main hope lies in the pressure being applied to those who were involved …
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What’s Your Sign?
Louie Gohmert’s suggestion a few months ago that the Forest Service should change the moon’s orbit so as to fight climate change left many people palming their faces. Apparently, the good people in Texas’s 1st congressional district (just west of …
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Kwanzaa ‘Fake Religion Created by a Psychopath’
Marjorie Taylor Greene is notorious for her outrageously ill-informed comments, like the one above. (Kwanzaa is actually a cultural celebration, not a religion.) The point, however, is not that Greene has mental issues, but that she was voted into office …
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The Big Lie Will Eventually Face Its End Game
What’s going to happen when the Big Lie has finally run its course and is fully debunked? Will this be a bang or a whimper? It depends on exactly how that happens. If a smoking gun is identified in the …
The Cost of Ignoring Our Problems
I was listening to economist Robert Reich talk about the mainstream media (MSM) the other day. He began by stating the obvious: the far right stuff from Fox, NewMax, and OAN is essentially a collection of lies and misrepresentations, and …
Tagged with: Carbon Fee and Dividend, costs of Desertification, costs of huge losses of land mass, costs of loss of biodiversity, costs of Ocean acidification, rapid decarbonization of our energy and transportation sectors, reorienting our approach to land use, Robert Reich, tax on carbon and deforestation
Today’s Democrats and Republicans Have Hit a Wall
When my mom and I speak about politics, it usually comes down to something akin to what we see here. Fox News acolytes have a cynical and largely incorrect narrative surrounding each of the topics of the day. What I’ve …
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The Enemy?
In his day, Frank Zappa was known not only as one of the world’s finest musicians, but as an astute social critic. One of the points he felt strongest about was how civics had been eliminated from school curricula, and …
Public Safety
It’s hard to overstate the importance of public safety in a world in which variants of COVID-19 continue to rage. Back in the old days, few people attached any real significance to issues like this. When my wife became pregnant …
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