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Category: National Politics

Republicans, snap out of it!

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

          One of Joe Biden’s more admirable goals upon assuming the presidency was his hope to get the country over the hill and coasting toward pre-pandemic normalcy by July 4. He failed – because of his false assumption that everyone

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The proposed remedy is worse than the problem

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

—It is from the same bag of tricks as the race card—can be fitted to anything. Higher minimum wage causes greater unemployment. Welfare payments cause dependency. There is an element of truth in both claims; however, They never kept union

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Collateral damage includes everyone

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

          “Collateral damage,” usually a military term – as when “pinpoint” drone strikes wipe out wedding parties instead of militants – applies to politics and economics as well.           The two-thirds of the United States’ 600,000 COVID-19 deaths that could

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Bragging on what Republicans have done.

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

A Facebook friend of mine posted this last week bragging on what Republicans have done. “BECAUSE BLACK LIVES MATTERED. Approximately 620,000 white soldiers died in the civil war in order to obtain freedom for the black slaves. The average age

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There are no right or wrong answers

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

Supporting the death penalty is an element of an authoritarian personality. So we can know without asking the Trumpers are all for it. In the years  after World War II some sociology researchers worked work to identify an authoritarian personality

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Time for Plan B to curb violence

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

          Archaic though our Second Amendment is – a vestigial relic of completely different times – I realize that common sense will always lose to its very strict wording.           And, as I have pointed out, there will never be

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Rich get richer gaming system

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Editorial, National Politics

          July got off to a rousing start with New York state indictments of the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.           The New York Times described the organization’s indictment as a “a 15-year scheme to help

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Political Primer: systemic racism

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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National Politics

          With elected Republicans abandoning reality, it behooves others to explain points of the political dialogue that GOPQ leaders lie about or deny altogether.           Here’s what systemic racism looks like, as reported by NPR’s Jill Sheridan:           A black

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Thought police mobilize again

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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National Politics

          In the continuing Republican attack on the republic in which we stand, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill last week to collect the most personal of private information on everyone involved in the state’s higher education system.          

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Habitability top priority

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Climate Crisis, National Politics

          President Joe Biden had a successful trip to Europe earlier this month. The main item on the Biden agenda was to assure our allies – and enemies – that the United States is again in the hands of a

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