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The latest from Red State Update: Link: https://youtu.be/B-hJsajwvj4 by … Continue reading
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As I’ve mentioned before (link), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said some seriously absurd and misinformed things about global warming. Here’s another brief example from a Senate hearing in which Cruz questions David Titley, a retired rear admiral whose duties … Continue reading
The free market is a wonderful thing. It’s remarkably good at supplying the goods and services people want and need, and the alternative of top-down planning has been shown pretty conclusively not to work. (I should admit my bias here: … Continue reading
Robert Gates, appointed Secretary of Defense by George W Bush in 2006, continued to serve in that office under President Obama until he retired in 2011. Gates has also served as an Air Force officer, as Director of Central Intelligence … Continue reading
In the United Kingdom, citizens can petition their government on line. (The same is true in the U.S.; see https://petitions.whitehouse.gov.) If 100,000 people sign on to a given request, a committee of Parliament takes it up for consideration. The most … Continue reading
Attorneys for the estate of Laquan McDonald alleged in legal documents extensive police misconduct surrounding the fatal shooting of McDonald in 2014. A report published Friday on the CNN website (link) describes the allegations in detail. As you probably know, … Continue reading
According to this article from the WRAL-TV website, a month ago a woman shoplifted children’s toys from a Best Buy in Knightdale NC, a small town adjacent to Raleigh. She was caught and the police were called. When a young … Continue reading
Quick question: What percentage of their income do richest 400 taxpayers hand over to the federal government? Seriously, take a guess before you read on. Back at the end of the Clinton administration, when the federal government was running a … Continue reading
Right Wing Watch, a project of the organization People for the American Way, has published an interesting list of predictions about 2015 from the far extremes of the religious and political right wing. Needless to say (I hope), these odd … Continue reading
Predictably (I regret to say), many Americans regard Christianity as more deserving of religious freedom than other faiths. Or at least so suggests a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago. … Continue reading