It’s hard to know exactly how honest the editing of this teaser video is, but it appears that Donald Trump walked out of an interview when Piers Morgan confronted him re: his lies about the 2020 election. Couldn’t we have …
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What American Republicans Stand For
I wouldn’t say the Republican party “stands for nothing.” It stands for overt racism, the wanton destruction of the natural environment, the demolition of public education, and the rejection of science. Most of all, it stands for Donald Trump and …
In America, the Race to the Intellectual and Moral Bottom Is Hotly Contested
An old school chum, now the president of a major university in Texas, says, “The only person in America who makes (Texas governor) Greg Abbott look good is (Florida governor) Ron DeSantis.” Lots of truth to that.
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Making Progress
It’s important to keep in mind that the United States is making real social progress, even in the face of all the stupidity. It’s quite possible that, when we look back on the Biden administration, we’ll see a great deal …
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Republicans Are Bullying Mickey Mouse, But Does That Seem Like a Good Idea?
There appears to be so much nonsense in today’s political strategies here in the U.S. Obviously the far-right wing is getting great mileage out of ridiculing the idea of “wokeness,” a word that hateful and ignorant people use to discredit …
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Putin Has Hit America Hard
Was Russia’s support of Donald Trump and its intervention in our 2016 elections an act of deliberate sabotage? There is no direct proof–at least none that has been made public, yet it’s hard for the mind not to connect the …
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Democrats Can’t Message Themselves Out of a Paper Bag
It’s easy to hate the values of the present-day Republican party. Today’s Democratic party, though its morals are higher, is also hard to admire, if only for its amazing ineptitude at political messaging. Review the list of what Democrats have …
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Aren’t the Lives of Teachers Already Tough Enough?
They’re underpaid. Their efforts to discipline unruly students is thwarted at every turn. They bring in their own supplies, and spend countless unpaid hours on lesson planning. It may have appeared that our society had done everything conceivable to remove …
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Our Planet’s Having a Hard Time Making Sense of America’s Cultural Phenomena
This reverence for semi-automatic machine guns is most certainly among America’s current cultural phenomena that mystifies Europe (and the rest of the world), but it’s hardly the only one.
Disgusting Behavior
Like most people in their twenties, my kids occasionally use vulgar language. A couple of points: They do it sparingly, They don’t do it in front of inappropriate company, and They didn’t learn it from me when they were in …
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