From this article written in 2015: On Tuesday, Jeb Bush proposed to eliminate the Obama administration’s regulation of carbon pollution, and, in keeping with his self-styled goal of “growth at all cost,” proposes to make any further climate regulation essentially impossible.
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Why Are Republicans the Only Climate-Science-Denying Party in the World? Maybe It’s Simple Supply and Demand.
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The Woeful Demolition of American Education
In yesterday’s post America’s Recession in Manufacturing Could Be a Boon To World Consumers, I laid out some of the more sorrowful aspects of the U.S. education system, and how the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to …
Americans Seem To Be OK on Certain Forms of Terrorism
Americans enjoy the rights to peaceful assembly and free speech that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the right to bear arms that is protected by the Second. But are these limitless? This thug is …
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Destroying Education and Critical Thinking Key To the Success of Authoritarian Governments
It’s not often I quote U.S. military commanders, but this statement from now-deposed Defense Secretary James Mattis is excellent. It’s interesting how many data points are aligning in U.S. politics, starting with the destruction of public education, including content from …
America’s Recession in Manufacturing Could Be a Boon To World Consumers
Everywhere we go we hear this joyous refrain: The U.S. economy is doing great! And it’s true if you’re wealthy, heavily invested in the stock market, which was up ~30% last year. Just be glad you’re not a farmer or …
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U.S. Thumbs Its Nose at International Treaties, Human Decency
Later today, the Trump administration will announce that it has loosened restrictions on the use of landmines, rolling back an Obama-era policy that restricted the use of landmines to the Korean Peninsula. The new policy is expected to allow the …
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The Borowitz Report: Trump’s attorneys claimed that the Constitution contains “no provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.”
It’s said that at the center of every good joke there is a core truth. Here, as we see the Trump legal team struggling with one pathetic defense tactic after another, it appears that their answer lies in more excuses, …
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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Continually Insists Trump’s Tax Cuts Will Pay for Themselves Despite Consistent Evidence To the Contrary
This article describes how the U.S. Treasury Secretary continues to insist Trump’s tax cuts aren’t blowing up the national debt, even though this is clearly untrue. A couple of points:
Is Science Always Correct?
No, it’s almost the precise opposite. Geneticist David Suzuki reminds us that, in science, most of our ideas will ultimately prove to be incorrect. As sobering a thought as that may be, however, we need to consider where we’d be …
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Annual U.S. War Spending: $1.2 Trillion–But There’s (Partially) Good News
Well, let’s put all this into perspective. Trump partially paid for this by kicking 700K hungry people off food stamps. “Partially” is a key word there, however; it saved a whopping $1.32 billion, or 0.11% of war spending.
