Just got off a long Zoom call with some old high school friends, two of whom are extremely senior professors of constitution law, and several others are medical doctors. Given the leaked Alito decision, the issue of abortion dominated the …
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Mike Pence in the News
Mike Pence is such an insipid human being that it’s almost amusing to find him in the news. Apparently, he’s breaking away from Trump re: the Georgia gubernatorial race and is backing the opponent of the former president’s pick. I’m …
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Conservatives Want Small Government, Until ….
It seems just like yesterday that the MAGA crowd was infuriated that government was “taking away their freedoms” by forcing them to wear masks. Now they’re ecstatic that 12-year-old girls who get abortions following rape or incest, or due to …
Florida School Board Acts Out of Bravery and Compassion for Children
It’s gratifying that there are still operational school boards, even in the moral hellhole states in the American south, that are still concerned about what’s best for the kids. I would no more educate my children in the public schools …
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David Gergen Understands that America Is Broken, But His Solution? Seriously?
I understand this guy is vigorously promoting his new book, and that he’s looking for soft, palatable suggestions to fix what’s wrong with U.S. politics. But give me a break. His solution is to “pass the baton” to younger people? …
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One America News Network Among the Most Cowardly Organizations on Earth
Those not familiar with the One America News Network (OAN) should think of it as Fox News on steroids. Take someone with the most outrageous, easily debunked far-right-wing claims about Trump, the “stolen election,” critical race theory, wokeism, Biden’s “senility,” …
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Admitting That We’ve Been Bamboozled
Occasionally, when I come across something like this quote from Carl Sagan, I ask myself how open I am to admitting to myself that I’ve been bamboozled. Suppose it turns out that Fox News is right about Donald Trump, that …
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In Case You Missed It: Pete Buttigieg on Abortion
IMO, this is the definitive argument for keeping government out of the business of limiting abortion in any way (let alone banning it). The mere presence of Pete Buttigieg on the political scene is a huge comfort to all decent …
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Will the U.S. Supreme Court Recover?
This from Brian Stelter, American TV anchor and chief media correspondent for CNN, re: a quote from Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN. I’m not an expert on the Supreme Court, but I would say that recovering from this leak will …
Horror at the United States Supreme Court
Until Ruth Bader Ginsberg died and the process of reshaping the U.S. Supreme Court to drive a far-right political agenda began, very few Americans paid any real attention to the philosophies of the individual justices. Sure, there were liberals and …
