“America, We’re Looking at You with Our Jaws on the Floor” — Great Article from a Nobel Laureate
Here’s a short piece in Newsweek from José Ramos-Horta, former President of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
He begins: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany recently said, “the world is looking at us as a leader in COVID-19.” She is half right. The rest of the world is indeed looking, not with admiration for U.S. leadership, but with dropped jaws.
What’s going to be required to re-establish the legitimacy of the United States on the world stage is unknown at this point.
Are Americans impressed by hoards of heavily armed, unidentified thugs, using military tactics and weapons to pull people off their cities’ streets? How many of us believe that our local police aren’t up to the task of arresting the very few violent rioters?
While there is still time, before speaking or writing a statement critical of the U.S. president becomes illegal, I hope readers will check out the video below, in which former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner lays out six articles of impeachment that Congress should bring against Attorney General Bill Barr. 
How many Americans who cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton in 2016 are going to vote for Trump in 2020? 11?
As shown here, both the Yankees and the Nationals took a knee on Major League Baseball’s opening day. A reader sent me this pic, and commented:
I know I’m not alone in expecting that Trump would try to start a war with another country, as a ploy to gain re-election by making intense and unadulterated chaos rain down on the world. But did it ever occur to anyone that he’d invade our own cities? 
The Hawai‘i State Senate passed a bill that would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from extending or renewing any contracts to generate energy from coal and phase out the use of coal in Hawai‘i by the end of 2022.
In Pennsylvania, misdemeanor simple assault involves intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly inflicting bodily injury on another, attempting to do so, or putting someone in fear of imminent bodily injury. More serious assaults, known as aggravated assaults, are charged as felonies. 
As shown here, as time passes, global warming means successively less sea ice in the Arctic.
