Yes, the U.S. electorate is bitterly divided, but is there any prospect for a detente? I think of myself as a reasonably optimistic guy, but it’s hard to find any real room here, as illustrated by the meme. Almost half …
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There Is No Precedent For This, But What Does That Really Mean?
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe seems to have nailed this. None of the first 44 U.S. presidents attempted to overthrow the United States government.
Flags and Their Meaning
From “A Word a Day” A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov …
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Preventing Future Tragedies
Understandably, politicians don’t want to be forced into difficult positions, like having to pass common sense gun laws, simply because Americans are being mowed down with assault rifles at an ever-increasing rate. Yet, we need to make sure we bring …
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What About Hunter Biden’s Laptop?
The circus that is the United States is built partially on the fact that half the country really has no interest in getting to the truth about January 6th. They don’t have a huge problem with the prosecution of the …
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Explaining Trumpism to Future Generations
There is only one explanation: The United States had become a land of “haves and have-nots,” the latter group consisting largely of white working-class individuals, angry at their failure to succeed financially, woefully undereducated, and as full of hate as …
Biden and Inflation
I like this, but I wouldn’t call blaming Biden for inflation “lazy thinking.” It’s propaganda, carefully disseminated to uneducated people who are already conditioned to love Trump, many of whom have “Let’s Go Brandon” bumper stickers on their trucks.
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We Really Didn’t Need This
We live in a time where the most powerful country on Earth is teetering on the edge of losing its democracy, and the richest person on the planet is pushing it off the cliff with all his might.
Treason TV
I’d like to believe that this is the way “news” outlets like Fox, OAN, and Newsmax will someday come to be regarded, but I doubt it. Fox is constantly walking back its claims about the insurrection. For a while, it …
Never Fear, Merrick Is Here
Well, he has a 100% conviction rate in the cases he actually brings.
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