What RFK said here is true, but I think it might be useful to ask why certain people want to prevent our society from moving forward. I would suggest that this is the notion of fear. If you look at …
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Why We Don’t Tax Churches
We’ve all come across the content of the meme here many times. Why don’t we tax mega-churches where their pastors live in palaces and their parishioners live in trailer parks? The answer is not that we want to subsidize churches, …
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Trump and NATO
There was a time not too long ago where this conversation would have been unnecessary, because it would have been inconceivable that a former U.S. president would encourage a nuclear-armed dictatorship to invade one (or more) of our allies.
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In the Direction of Social Democracy
The woman in the cartoon here is actually author Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She makes an interesting point. At this point in history, most enlightened minds would like …
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Keep in Mind that Biden Has Advisors
I don’t go for “Angry Staffer’s” ad hominem abuse of Trump, but he makes an excellent point here. Does anyone really believe that Biden makes decisions in the absence of a huge team of carefully selected advisors? He could be …
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Another Viewpoint on Trump
This really is what it comes down to. I wish Biden were 30 years younger, or that a young progressive would swoop down onto the U.S. political scene, But in the absence of that, I’ll happily vote for an aging …
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General John Kelly on Trump
The meme here has been passed around on social media for some time now. Every time I come across it, I make a mental note of the word “flawed,” insofar as it seems unnecessarily mild. What’s the matter with “depraved,” …
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The Midwest Values PAC
In an effort to establish something he calls the Midwest Values PAC, former U.S. senator Al Franken presents this interesting and heart-warming story: My dad was a lifelong Republican — until Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act. My …
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Our Political Opponents Are Now Our “Enemies”
Here’s Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asserting that the President of the United States is “trying to destroy” (the country). Apparently, this type of rhetoric plays well in the American south, where the people, mostly poorly educated, eagerly accept the …
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Replacing the Corrupt Postmaster General
In addition to what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes here, as I understand it, the real scandal is that DeJoy has a direct incentive to degrade the level of quality provided by the U.S. Post Office: his eight-figure investment …
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