Sitting at my wife’s desk with the sliding doors open, I just read this headline (above), and shouted, “Oh ****!!” loud enough for our neighbors to hear. Glad they don’t have kids. Upon reading further, however, this really isn’t that …
Tag: U.S. Constitution
NY Times: Federal Appeals Court Halts ( Senator Lindsey) Graham’s Testimony Before Atlanta Grand Jury
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Grammar and the U.S. Constitution
This is both funny and serious at the same time. I cringe whenever I have to use “we the people” in the objective case, as in “God gave rights to we the people.” I usually try to rework the sentence.
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Interpreting the Constitution in These Horrible Times
Here’s a compilation of interviews with people coming out of a church service a couple of days ago in Ohio–one to which she had brought her little kids.
Gun Rally at the Virginia Capitol: Where’s the Line?
Nice outfits, guys! You with the gray scarf: Love the knee pads. Seriously, a few thousand white nationalists and other cretins held a protest in Richmond, Virginia today, expressing their viewpoint that any gun laws, regardless of how minor, are …
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The “I” Word
This is the first post on 2GreenEnergy that mentions the word “impeachment,” and I present it only because it’s an elephant in the room.
Dissenters No Longer Welcome in the Land of the Free
From this: President Trump praised the NFL’s decision to mandate that players either stand for the national anthem or stay in the locker room in a TV interview that aired Thursday, and questioned whether players who choose not to stand “proudly” should …
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The Worst Part about Trump Is that His Spineless Entourage Encourages Him
While late-night television host Trevor Noah certainly makes a good point in the meme at the left, one has to think that most people who encourage Trump do so because they’re afraid of what will happen if they don’t, not …
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Are We Making Progress as a Civilization?
A friend wrote to me last night: I will tell you, Craig, I was so utterly horrified by the dolphin video (that she had shared on Facebook, re: Japan’s considering dolphins pests and slaughtering them wholesale) I doubt I will …
The Arc of the Moral Universe: What Can We Expect?
Here’s a question posed by a certain Steve Charleston: I have a simple question for people of faith around the world: must it always be so? Must human history always be written as the aftermath of competition between the few …
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: John McCain Vows To Block Any Supreme Court Nominee from Hillary Clinton
(Pictured: retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens) From John McCain (R-AZ), one of America’s most revered leaders: I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put …
