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Category: National Politics

Republicans are happy hypocrites…

May 16, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The moral disintegration of the Republican Party continues apace. The puzzlement is that party faithful still spout slogans trying to claim moral high ground in the political arena.           Family values?           Their everlasting endorsement of the lying, adulterous,

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Cultural change an inevitability…

May 9, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Hwaet. We Gardena in geardagum, theodcyninga, thrym gefrunon, hu tha æthelingas ellen fremedon.           What? You don’t understand? The opening line of Beowulf is perfectly good English – at least for the Dark Ages. Even experts aren’t sure when it was

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Feedback loops amplify dangers

April 23, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          “In climate science, amplifying feedback loops are situations where a climate-caused alteration can trigger a process that causes even more warming, which in turn intensifies the alteration. An example would be warming in the Arctic, leading to melting sea

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What influence in Middle East?

April 11, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The  U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment devotes much space to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, as our main adversaries on the world stage. Along with continued aggression, it warns of stealth attacks via social media to interfere

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Is it news, if unreported?

April 4, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          My dormant newspaper juices were already simmering toward a rolling boil over the lousy national reportage – well, the lack thereof – on a story that I thought needed some attention  when an even more egregious case of journalistic

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Let the system handle the case

April 4, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          As of Sunday, the indictment had not been leaked. We don’t know the exact laws in question or how they might have been broken. The estimates run from 20 to 30 individual charges, including some felonies           We will

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Climate chaos takes aim at us

March 28, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

          As with many recent military reports, the 2023 U.S. Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment agrees that climate change – global warming and its offshoots –  “will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests as the physical impacts increase

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Major threats are homegrown…

March 20, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment released early this month leaves one wondering if our intelligence wonks are too naïve for their jobs or talking in code. Somehow, their intelligence pertains mostly to foreign countries while ignoring similar

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Multinationals threaten us all…

March 14, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Last week, the U.S. Intelligence Community issued its Annual Threat Assessment. It cited the usual suspects – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – as our most determined adversaries. It even gave lip service to the climate crisis and other

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Misguided policy bears ill results…

March 7, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Europeans fleeing religious persecution or seeking better lives arrive on a foreign shore, defeat the local inhabitants, claim a manifest destiny to occupy their lands, dispossess the natives of their property, declare them second-class residents and herd them into

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