When we look back on the opening of Trump’s second term as U.S. president and try to identify a pattern, something emerges that would have been unthinkable anytime earlier in American history. Apparently without any real thought, and on any …
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
It’s unclear how/if the sign here is actually helping matters, but that’s not the point. “Natural” disasters like massive floods are increasingly common and severe, and emergency management for events of this scale are impossible to implement effectively at the …
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Republican Senator Won’t Run for Re-election in 2026
Trusting any politician to tell the truth about his/her true motives is a foolish venture. In reality, why is Joni Ernst hanging it up? Anybody’s first guess would be that somehow she finds it morally unacceptable to continue to be …
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The American Way
Yesterday I met one of the creators of the modern “Superman” movie series, and he asked me if I was going to see his latest piece of work. I explained, “No, I don’t avail myself of this entire genre. I …
American Psychosis
Tristan Snell is a lawyer and legal commentator featured on MSNBC and NPR, and in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. There are bound to be a few sociopaths in any society, and, if that society is a democracy, these nut-jobs …
Trump Voters
Interesting concept here. Do all Trump voters approve of everything their leader says and does? Probably not. But overall, they see him as making America great (and white) again by taking actions like mass deportations and punishing everyone but his …
More Ridiculous Garbage from Trump’s Lackeys
In the 45 years I’ve lived in/near Los Angeles, there have been few major changes. It’s still the entertainment capital of the world, while continuing to feature obnoxious traffic and housing prices. Like most if not all of the largest …
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Our Reasons to Feel Safe from Government Are Not What They Used to Be
Before Trump, no politically active U.S. citizen thought he was taking a risk to his personal safety by criticizing the president and/or his administration. This country, and, in fact, the entire West, had experienced the Enlightenment (aka the Age of …
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RFK Jr. — a “Frightening Man”
If you were asked to name the most dangerous person in Trump’s cabinet, your first thought might be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose only qualification for the job of running the Pentagon is his tenure at Fox News and …
The Legitimacy of Property Taxes
I remind the reader who sent me the meme here that the main use of property tax is the funding of public schools. Speaking for myself, this is a sacrifice I’ve always happily made, both before and after I had …
