Part of the damage that our president has done to this country is creating the illusion that everybody is as selfish and mean as he is himself. As indicated at left and below, this is simply not true.
Author: craigshields
Getting From Here to 2021
This is funny, but let’s take a serious look at where we are and where we need to be. In particular, where would we be right now if Trump were not president? A pandemic largely behind us, jobs not going …
Tagged with: environmental stewardship
U.S. Has Fallen, But Can Recover
The rank and file Trump supporter doesn’t understand the ridicule with which the United States is now regarded abroad, and wouldn’t care even if he did. We can only hope that this will be over soon. As my friend David …
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Trump Gets Endorsement of Large and Highly Effective Middle Eastern Group
We’ve seen our top military people, our scientists and doctors, our journalists and public intellectuals all endorsing Biden. Trump, on the other hand, is endorsed by every single white supremacy group, and now, wait for it, the Taliban in Afghanistan. …
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Big Oil Comes to Africa
According to the American Energy Society, here’s what’s happening in Africa with respect to oil exploration and extraction: Uganda, Kenya and Total are building a pipeline to carry Ugandan oil to the Kenya coast. South Africa’s offshore Luiperd Block might be larger than 500 million …
Stay Strong, America
Even when my kids were young, I didn’t knock myself out with Halloween decorations, but I certainly admire this guy’s creativity and sense of gallows humor. Let’s face facts: these are some pretty bad times for the world as a …
Democrats Are Sooo Inflexible
Are Democrats categorically against any future president like Donald Trump? Isn’t that a bit closed-minded? Rigid? Doctrinaire? At least sometime down the road, shouldn’t the U.S. elect another pathologically lying, criminal, aspiring tyrant? Don’t we need an occasional four years …
Trump as “Would-Be King”
If all the actions Trump’s taking weren’t right out of the wanna-be dictator’s playbook, we’d all be much more comfortable. But that’s not the case, as we’re seeing: playing to people’s strongest fears and points of anger, discrediting the media …
Tagged with: Trump declaring opponents to be the enemies of the people, Trump discrediting the media, Trump focusing all efforts on the first re-election, Trump playing to people’s strongest fears, Trump remaking the party that brought him into power, Trump removing traditional institutions’ ability to rein him in
Surprise: Liberals Are Sometimes Called Nasty Names
Liberal pastor John Pavlovitz irritates far more conservatives than I ever will, but between the two of us, I’m willing to bet I’m the only one who’s been called a “cockroach” on a syndicated live radio show. A caller wanted …
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They’re Comin’ Fer Yer Guns
Everything you read at the left is true, but the bigger insult to your intelligence is that this is what the right wing has been telling Americans ever since we were settling the wild west with the original Colts and …
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