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Over the Labor Day weekend, a comic book superhero set box office records. No surprise there. The Marvel Universe (represented here) and the DC Universe (on deck somewhere) regularly blow up their cinematic competition. Labor Day weekend
Read moreThose of us alive at the time remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2001, when Saudi-led terrorists hijacked four airliners and flew two of them into the towers of the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon.
Read moreThe event made quite an impression. A pal’s sixth birthday party, and something did not go his way. His desires were thwarted. So, he threw himself face down on the living room floor, pounding it with his fists and
Read moreOne 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
Read more—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
Read more“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
Read moreA 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
Read moreSupporting 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
Read moreArchaic 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
Read moreJuly 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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