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 …
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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 …
Tagged with: America is no better a country than North Korea., Obama didn't prosecute Bush 43 for war crime, Our laws simply do not apply to the rich and powerful., prosecute Trump, The United States rejects the concepts of accountability and justice., Trump blatant criminality, Trump eventually linked to Russia, Trump fraud, Trump money laundering, Trump obstruction, Trump tax evasion, Trump treason, Trump violations of campaign finance laws and the emoluments clause, Trump witness intimidation
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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Personal Integrity in the Era of Trump
“I was able to do my part to defend this nation in a meaningful manner, and expose corruption by the president.” – Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council Some of …
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The Biden Administration and the Environment
As we all know, an enormous amount of work needs to be done to re-establish the 100+ environmental safeguards that the Trump administration removed over the last four years. But are they all equally important? How should they be prioritized? …
Saluting Political Activist Roger Waters
In the world of rock and roll, it’s hard to think of anyone who has been more committed to activism than Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. Over the years, and especially within the past decade, Waters has supported matters as diverse …
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A Post-Trump America
From Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager to John McCain and lifelong Republican: “No, Biden’s rallies weren’t bigger. No, you didn’t see many Biden flags on houses or Biden bumper stickers on cars. No, you don’t know a single person on …
Tagged with: Hating a conman's victims is just asinine, improve our educational system--at least far as our understanding of world history is concerned, people who had lousy educations and ignorant parents tend to be far more bigoted rigid and mean as a result, progress to all the social economic diplomatic and environmental goals we'd all so love to see, suffering people make easy targets for demagogues, Trump's current supporters begin to become aware that he actually is a criminal, Trump's current supporters begin to become aware that he really did lose the election
