In my recent post on the Peace Dividend, I noted that a group of 50 Nobel laureates is suggesting that 2% of what the world now spends on the military be shifted to addressing problems like poverty, climate change, and …
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Jim Jordan’s Medal of Freedom Was a Mystery–Until Yesterday
Decent people everywhere felt as if they were about to vomit last January 11, as then-President Trump rewarded his ally Jim Jordan with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. At the time, it was presumed to be …
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Nobel Laureates Call for Peace Dividend
How would the world change if 2% of what it now spends on the military were shifted to addressing problems like poverty, climate change, and pandemics? Well, if a group of 50 Nobel laureates gets what it’s requesting, we’re about …
Company Policy at Fox News
Going through life lying and cheating must not be pleasant, and especially when you get caught with the whole world looking on. I’m sure there are Fox News viewers who believe that their media source choice is actually telling the …
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Strange Bedfellows
The past five years have seen progressives rooting for the ex-director of the FBI, the ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, and now this extremely conservative senator from Wyoming. If, when Trump came to power in 2017, someone had offered me a bet …
Republican Leaders Are Close To Telling the Truth About Trump
This bold and completely true statement comes from former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. No one knows what GOP leaders are planning, but we have to think it’s a mass disassociation from Trump, carefully timed and orchestrated so as to save …
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A Glimpse Into America’s State-Run Media
Most of us understand that during the Trump years, Fox News was essentially a state-run media. Yet few if any of us had any clear evidence to that effect, until now. Here’s an excellent point made in the light of …
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This Is How Close We Came
American democracy is not out of the woods, but those who attempted to usurp power via overturning the 2020 election have faced serious setbacks, namely, getting caught red-handed. Here’s a slide from the now-famous PowerPoint presentation that was being circulated …
Liz Chaney Working Hard To See Justice Done
So true. And so nice to see the charge being led by an extremely conservative Republican who has the integrity to put her country first. Republicans would have a far easier time if this were being driven by a liberal …
The Solutions Are Here, But …..
Growing up and losing one’s innocence certainly does come at a cost. Speaking for myself, until Nixon came along when I was 13, I felt very sure that the grown-ups were doing everything possible to deal with our world’s problems: …
