Human greed and indifference to the suffering of others didn’t just emerge on the scene in the last four years, but they certainly have been greatly amplified in a blink of an eye, haven’t they? The U.S. president was elected …
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Generally, Americans Are Liberals
When I came across the statement at the left, I mentioned to its author that the majority of American share liberal values. As shown here, the majority, in many cases the vast majority, have distinctly liberal viewpoints on topics as …
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Trump Begs Georgia Secretary of State To Overturn Election Results
In an hour-long phone call, Trump alternatively begged and threatened Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find him 11,780 votes,” the number needed to overturn the state’s election results, according to those who listened to a tape recording of …
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Trump Has Human Civilization’s Back To the Wall
From this: The outgoing Trump administration’s refusal to coordinate the handover of the Pentagon with the incoming Biden team, as well as the last-minute stacking of civilian positions with fringe national-security figures, comes at a fraught time for US national security.
Rights and Obligations
At left we have a reminder, as if we needed one, that Westerners, Americans in particular, are fixated on our rights, while ignoring our obligations to those around us. In fact, we’re so fixated on these rights that we cut …
Attempt To Overthrow American Democracy
A short (< 1 min.) excerpt of a speech given by Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy is embedded in this article in today’s Washington Post. He’s right; currently we are experiencing the most serious attempt to overthrow American democracy in our …
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How the World Ends
When my daughter was young, I used to help her with things like grammar and poetry interpretation. I recall explaining Frost’s “Fire and Ice”: He seems to be saying that the world could end either in fire, perhaps nuclear war, …
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Prosecuting Trump?
We have no choice but to prosecute Trump once he’s out of office. If we don’t, we’ll be issuing an open invitation for the next would-be dictator, and the next one couldn’t possibly be this incompetent. We really don’t have …
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What Happened To Cooperation and Compromise in Congress?
Joe Turk, one of my mentors as a young man, writes as follows: Tomorrow will mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Clean Air Act by Nixon. An Act lobbied against by: Big Oil, Coal, the Auto Industry, …
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Constitutional Originialism
For anyone who may be interested, here’s a conversation I’m having with some old college friends on constitutional originalism, a concept regarding the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution that asserts that all statements in the constitution must be interpreted based …
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