A friend sent me this and asked for my comments. Until 1865, most of what existed south of the Mason-Dixon line was built predominantly by white ownership of black slaves. More importantly, the remnants of those days still remain in …
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Credit Where It’s Due–And Only There
IMO, the U.S. president is given too much blame when bad things happen and too much credit when good things happen. Reasonable people hate Trump for his brazen criminality, but not for every mishap that took place around the globe …
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Do Far Right Wing Politicians and Entertainers Actually Believe Their Own Anti-vax Claims?
Does Florida governor Ron DeSantis really believe his own anti-vax rhetoric? Could it be that he’s playing his hand this way because the state is home to so many morons who believe this crap?
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Biden and COVID-19 in the United States
Unfortunately, we as a nation don’t think well enough to understand this. We simply can’t muster the required intelligence, and, even if we could, we don’t want to. Trump supporters hate Biden, and reason has absolutely nothing to do with …
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The U.S. Vs. World Peace
I had to laugh when I read this. As if anyone on this globe thinks of America as “the world’s leading champion of peace.” Iran, Saudi Arabia/Yemen, Israel/Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq. Every year a survey is conducted of …
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American Politics Is Squirting to the Right
Here’s another good example of how far to the right U.S. politics has shifted in the last half century. Walter Cronkite had no political bias, which was why he was known as the “most trusted man in America.” If these …
Trump’s Election Tampering
Those of us hoping to see Trump in prison may be closer to that dream than we thought. Check out this piece from history professor Heather Cox Richardson, updating us on Trump’s efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 …
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What Americans Believe
Many Americans live with an entire array of misbeliefs, including: a) that the U.S. is the best country in the world, and b) that attempts to make it better are unpatriotic. Improvements are slow in the making, however. Over the …
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The Bible Belt
Here’s a graphic on U.S. demographics that speaks loudly to the nation’s politics. This region is always fiercely Republican, and especially since Trump has gained control of the GOP; they really can’t get enough of him. Ever since I was …
The Left Has Fears, But They’re Not Black and White Coming Together
Is this what the left really fears? Maybe it’s more this fellow with the “Q sent me” shirt, and all the hateful nonsense that it stands for. This country doesn’t need more anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theories. Moreover, Qanon is part …
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