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3rd Term? Let’s Get Fired Up, Obama!
Steve Bannon is the most forceful articulation of Trump’s rumored ambition to stay in the White House for another term. Obama could call his bluff by announcing that, if Trump runs for another term, then Obama will challenge him. The justification, of course, is that whatever means of circumventing the 22nd Amendment they argue applies…
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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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Rubicon
All this talk about “Crossing the Rubicon”…. The phrase gives a feeling of finality or something. But what does it actually mean? Well, when Julius Caesar was still just a war hero with glorious reports of daring conquests of the fearsome (and largely kingless Gauls), there was a region around the city of Rome inside…
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Antifa is a Terrorist Group?
The etymology of “Antifa” is a contraction of the word parts “anti-” and “fascist.” To label Antifa as a terrorist organization makes as much sense as labeling Lovers of Apple Pie as a terrorist group.
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Which Way to Go? (or What is the Purpose of Government?)
What is the purpose of government? Is it A) to serve the general welfare of the people? or B) to empower the elite to live and do as they please? This is the battle of political philosophies that has raged in this land since before the adoption of the US Constitution It is a useful…
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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…
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Update After the Charlie Kirk Trajedy
It’s been a while since I last wrote. There’s a lot to discuss, and with the killing of Charlie Kirk the imperative to write crashes down. (It is shameful that the killing of Minnesota state House speaker Melissa Hortman did not inspire the same bipartisan condemnation. Where were the Republicans then?) I would begin my…
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The GOP’s Long Push
It may be tempting to claim that Donald Trump has completely hijacked the Republican Party and turned it into a fascist, authoritarian party. After all, it used to be that the GOP was known as “the Party of National Security,” “the Law-and-Order Party,” and “the Party of Fiscal Responsibility.” Donald Trump has made a mockery…