Throwing our 250-year-old democracy into the toilet.
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Presidential Crimes Commission
At left is Eric Swalwell’s idea for preventing another Donald Trump. While I grant that something needs to be done to combat Trump and any future sociopath in the White House, I’m not sure we need an extra contrivance, when …
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The Politics of Older People
This is funny, but there is a certain sadness to it as well, i.e., that old people tend to be Trump supporters. It would be interesting to know why this is. Perhaps it has to do with having grown up …
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How to Regard the Trump Presidency
To the reader who sent me this: Really. Our president is a criminal sociopath who had his people storm the Capitol and came within an eyelash of overthrowing the U.S. government in 2021. He was charged with 91 felony counts …
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What Went Wrong Here in the United States?
To answer the question posed at left: America at one time had moral standards, but we’ve abandoned them. Now, it’s about the essential principles of MAGA: white nationalism, the rejection of science, and the repudiation of “wokeism.” It’s a disgusting …
Banning “Critical Race Theory”
Schoolchildren all around most of the country, and all over the world, are taught (roughly) the truth about U.S. history. Alabama is one of few outliers. There, children are taught that blacks and whites have, and have always had, equal …
Too Many Americans Have Lost the Ability to Think
There are 2.86 million U.S. military personnel. How many are transgender? Although no one really knows, it’s a minute fraction, perhaps like the percentage of left-handed redheads over seven feet tall with Mensa-level IQs. Does any rational person really believe …
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Love of Power
Wise people have been making this observation all throughout history, going back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks. And this, from modernity: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – …
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Trump and Our Next Three Years
I doubt Trump will be the U.S. president three years from now, but I also doubt that dementia will be the cause for his removal from office. That’s because, though he’s most certainly criminally insane, his symptoms of senility aren’t …
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Teaching Christianity in America’s Public Schools Runs Afoul of the U.S. Constitution, But It’s Extremely Popular
From Newsweek: The Ohio House passed a bill named after the slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, which allows public schoolteachers to teach about the “positive impact of religion on American history,” particularly Christianity. The “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” also …
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