Author: craigshields

Sunny day flooding, aka tidal or nuisance flooding, i.e., floods that occur with no new precipitation, are increasingly frequent in low-lying areas.  The phenomenon is caused by sea-level rise (driven by higher ocean temperatures that cause ocean volumes to rise, …

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Here’s an article on Ivanka’s possible future in politics that readers may find interesting. Obviously, her political future is a function of Americans’ taste for vacuous people in government, with no understanding of the public sector or foreign policy, whose …

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Good point here.  The United States has shifted so far to the right that the values that were held almost universally when I was a boy are now considered left-wing. Making sure people don’t starve is a good example, but …

The Great Shift in American Values Read More »

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This woman, a real estate agent in Northern Texas, has a story to tell that has all kinds of interesting legal, philosophical, and political implications.  A three-minute video from local news:

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I was flattered to be asked to participate in another Zoom call (this our eighth) with about 12 members of my high school class of 1973.  A few take-aways I thought I’d share. For the first time since the end …

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The most internationally humiliating aspect of the “stolen election” protests is the complete lack of evidence, and all this is becoming clearer and more disgusting by the day.  I hope readers will check out the discussion below about Dominion Voting …

The “Stolen Election” Crowd Lacks Something It Desperately Needs: Evidence Read More »

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Gary Tulie writes something I thought I’d share, with a few brief words of my own at the bottom: Hi Craig. I am concerned about what might happen during or in the immediate aftermath of Joe Biden’s inauguration.  A warning …

What Does the Last Half-Century in Northern Ireland Portend for the Next Stop in U.S. History? Read More »

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The call for national unity is actually a call to excuse a series of crimes of the grandest level imaginable.  Trump and his supporters are working hard to take over the U.S. federal government, using the exact same playbook implemented …

The Nation Needs Unity, But Not Around Criminality Read More »

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From NPR: One of the Trump administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — …

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Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England: I think the best thing Trump could do for his remaining few days as President is to (in an open secret kind of way) quietly disappear from the spotlight, and go …

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