I honestly don’t know how to respond to the question a reader poses at left, other than to acknowledge that our lack of compassion for others is most certainly a part of the American zeitgeist as we move through the …
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Trump’s Losing Support, But He Doesn’t Care
What the reader here, Travis Matthew, and his out-of-work neighbor may not understand is that Trump doesn’t need public support at this point. He’s either a lame duck president or the first king of the United States. In either case, …
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Critical Race Theory
As shown at left, there is a certain segment of Americans who believe that black history (slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and the systemic racism that exists today) has no place being taught in our schools. I was hoping that the …
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Whom Do Americans Trust?
Below is a compilation of quotes from a few of our country’s top military leaders on the character of Donald Trump. Yet the fact that they are uniformly unflattering, to put it kindly, seems to make little difference to the …
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Trump’s Lies
Former college basketball star and math teacher extraordinaire Joe Turk (shown at left) offers “13 of his ‘major’ lies and we’re not even two months in. The tale of the $50 million – no, make it $100 million – in …
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Many Present-Day Trump Supporters Will Soon See the Light, But Certainly Not All
I’ve written that many, but not all, Trump supporters will eventually see the light and realize that their leader has become a dictator, and that’s not part of the American way. The words at left are what I’m referring to. …
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Japan and Ocean Current Energy
Until about 15 years ago, before the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) associated with solar and wind began to plummet, the world had high hopes for the renewable energy technologies collectively known as hydrokinetics, i.e., extracting the kinetic energy out …
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Betraying Ukraine and NATO
Below we have the words of American singer/songwriter James Taylor, in which he expresses his disgust for his country’s stabbing Ukraine and NATO in the back. A sickening moment, to be sure.
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The Changing Politics of Trump Supporters
At left we see the driving force behind the pullback of Trump supporters. A full one-third of voters in the poorest, reddest states are on Medicaid. Yes, that’s a lot of ignorance, but it’s also a lot of outrage when …
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Travel Expert Rick Steves Beats Cancer, Makes Comment on Trump
Rick Steves writes: Update on my Medical Travels: I’m Cancer Free! PSA 55 to PSA 0.09 to PSA <0.03…Yes! If you know prostate cancer, you know the happy story of those numbers — and the relief of hearing my surgeon …
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