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The Question of the Time for each American:
“Have I committed myself to a political agenda that works against my own interest?” How we each respond to the answer to this question should be informed by the answer to this second question: “Is my best interest in opposition to the greater good?” It is impossible to make sense of everything that is going…
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Class Warfare Erupts Openly—Can you see it?
The Trump social media post depicting a former president and his wife as apes has, at long last, inspired even some of his supporters to object that he has gone too far. The post was reportedly removed after 12 hours because of the push-back; some Trump supporters are going so far as to express disgust…
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What’s Trump Doing with Venezuela?
Everyone is wondering “What is Trump’s intention regarding Venezuela?” Obviously, this isn’t about protecting Americans from drugs. First of all, the US Coast Guard for decades has been successfully and lawfully interdicting boats suspected of transporting illicit drugs into the US; we don’t need to be murdering mariners on the open seas with no evidence…
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A Shut-down Win for Dems
Many Democrats are angry at the eight senators who struck a deal with Republicans to end the shut-down because they feel that the Democrats were (surprisingly) “winning the shut-down” with their never-back-down “insistence” on restoring the health insurance premium subsidies of Obama-Care. These people feel that the Democrats folded without getting anything for the pain…
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Who are “The People?”
When I refer to “the people,” I am referring to all the people who live in the USA. Of course, this includes the richest of the rich as much as it includes the poorest of the poor. However, I sometimes use the term “the people” as a counterpoint to “the rich,” particularly when discussing the…
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A Glimmer of Hope
All across the country, the people have spoken out decisively against the President The supposed squeaker governor’s race was a smash of some 13% margin against the MAGA candidate A Democrat elected mayor of Omaha for the first time in forever A clean sweep of statewide offices in Virginia and 13 flipped Assembly seats And…
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MTG Gets Real
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the canary in the coal mine. The respiratory system of canaries is much more sensitive to atmospheric deficiencies than are humans. So, miners took them down into the mines as an early warning system for danger in the air; when the canary became agitated or died, it was time to hurry…
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Vote YES on CA Proposition 50
In school, we all studied Germany in the 1930s heading into WWII The National Socialist German Workers Party won an election in 1933 that placed Hitler in the leadership position, and he proceeded to consolidate absolute, totalitarian power German citizens with eyes to see understood what was happening, but they failed to stop it…and we…
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Military Meet-Up?
So, Pete Hegseth has called a huge, in-person meeting of ALL flag officers for this coming Tuesday. Each will bring at least some of their staff, so thousands of personnel—the leaders of ALL aspects of the American military—will be in transit at once and then all located in a single geographical location. This has never…
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Kamala Harris Explains Not Answering “Not Black Enough” Accusation
In her first news interview since the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris explained why she didn’t punch back when Trump accused her of having “just decided to be Black” for the election. She said she wouldn’t “fall for that bait.” She contended that going down that path would have no end, and that he would…