Author: craigshields

This, of course, is a reference to those who vote against their own interests because they’re too stupid to understand what those interests are, and which candidate will best serve them. Yet voting against one’s own interests is not necessarily …

How We Vote, and Why Read More »

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Ha!  Love the guy’s face too–the perfect TV weatherman. Our society continues to yield to the pressures of Big Money, which is, most definitely, bringing about environmental collapse. Of course, all this would be impossible without the who-cares selfishness of …

Climate Change Forecast Read More »

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Our society lives with more or less constant reminders that fossil fuels, while extremely well suited to the 20th Century need to be phased out as quickly as feasible. Some of these reminders are more spectacular than others, as shown …

Pipeline Rupture Creates “Eye of Fire” in Gulf of Mexico Read More »

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This is in Ala-effing-bama?? We’re getting very near the end of this attack on American democracy.

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From NBC News: “All of them – all of them were telling us, ‘Trump sent us.” In harrowing, heart-wrenching testimony before a House select committee established to investigate the events of Jan. 6, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino A. Gonell …

Did Prosecuting Trump for His Role in Jan 6th Riot Just Get Easier Thanks to Capitol Officers’ Testimony? Read More »

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Based on 142 interviews that C-Span conducted with U.S. historians in their periodic project to rank our presidents from best to worst, Trump came in fourth from last, as illustrated below. Before continuing, let me admit that I know very …

C-Span: Trump Ranks Fourth Worst U.S. President Read More »

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Rep. Kinzinger makes an excellent point. The narrative that the insurrection was carried out by anyone other than Trump supporters is obvious nonsense, and his logic makes that all the more evident. Every law-abiding American citizen believes it’s good that …

Investigating the January 6th Insurrection Read More »

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Shortly after the presidential election in November of 2020, most Republicans, as many as 75%, were convinced that Trump would have won had there not been massive voter fraud, even though no credible evidence showed that this was the case. …

Stolen Election Narrative Read More »

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A climate denier I happen to know writes: Science as referenced by politicians is no longer science, at least not in the traditional sense of the word. Real science continuously questions a hypothesis. When evidence suggests there’s a problem with …

To a Climate Denier Read More »

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Senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty writes: As we have gotten our people vaccinated, at a rate which far exceeds every other nation in the world, we’ve not only seen >90% reduction in the number of weekly deaths …

Lots of Good News, Though Not Everyone Is Aware of That Read More »

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