When someone makes an assertion during a discussion on politics and asks for my position, I often respond, “I believe it’s more complicated than that.” Border security, declarations of war, limits on free speech, teaching religion in public schools, administering …
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Why We Need To Be Involved In Politics
Being uninterested in politics was never a reasonable position to take, as people 2400 years ago, including Socrates and Plato, told us. Yet, until 2015, American politics was something of a snooze. It was defined, unfortunately, by corruption, meaning that …
Americans Have Liberal Values That Are Frustrated By Big Money
This is Andrew Breitbart, the founder of far-right Breitbart News. And he’s correct here: even though there are right extremist news sources (like his own, and a few cable “news” channels) the left does control the narrative. But this isn’t …
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Tagged with: 37 OECD nations, a living wage, a single-tiered justice system, Americans' Liberal Values, Breitbart News, colorblind policing, common sense gun laws, George Soros, quality education, racial harmony, right extremist news sources, universal background checks for prospective gun owners, universal healthcare, voting rights for all, war as a last resort
Not All Republicans Are Among the World’s Worst People–But Some Are
The author of the meme here brings up an excellent point. I happen to know some extremely well-educated Republicans; in fact, my mother is one.
The Greatest Threat To Human Civilization
This is good, but I look at it a bit differently. I would add “climate change mitigation” to the list of things everyone wants. (I would add “universal healthcare” to the list too.)
The True State of the Union
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of writer Alexis de Tocqueville, born in Paris (1805). He was 25 years old when the French government sent him to America to study the prison system. He spent nine months touring towns and …
Examining Life’s Meaning
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here …
Vote in November
Whatever could this gentleman mean? Well, perhaps it’s a reference to the fact that the will of the people has exactly zero bearing on the way those people are governed. Over 90% of American voters favor universal background checks for …
Tagged with: a functioning EPA, banking regulations, better public schools, full support for the Mueller investigation, no looting of the U.S. treasury to provide tax cuts for billionaires, Renewable Energy, the will of the people, universal background checks for prospective gun owners, universal healthcare
Corn Ethanol Under Pressure
Of the 13 billion bushels of corn harvested in the U.S. each year, 27% are consumed in creating ethanol, largely on the basis of the $7 billion in subsidies paid to corn farmers by the U.S. government.
Climate Change and the Battle for Your Mind
Imagine it’s January 1, 2015, and you’re given $65 million with the proviso that you must spend every nickel of it by the end of the year, solely to communicate a certain specific message to the world. What would that …
