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March 25, 2025 Laugh the next time you hear a MAGAt asking for transparency March 25, 2025 Jimmy Carter's death is not all that important, is it? Trump is our narcissist-in-chief March 25, 2025 Staying on the alert for for prople to blame for our problems November 21, 2021 Our Living Contradiction The November 14, 2021 issue of the New York Times Magazine contains an article by Jake Silverstein entitled A Nation of Argument. (If you follow the April 6, 2021 The Georgia Voter Suppression Law When I first read about Georgia’s new voting law, it sounded as if some parts of it were okay. For example, Republicans say that Sunday voting is March 24, 2021 COVID-19 vaccines and older so-called conservatives I can’t understand how older people can refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Younger people have not lived through the amazing vaccines March 5, 2021 I left a comment on PoliticsNC I commented on a guest article on PoliticsNC: Tom, your buddy Rick Henderson is indeed a Libertarian. Libertarians are those people who talk freedom March 3, 2021 We need another Sputnik Quotes from Politics & Ideas: How to Step Up the Tech Fight Against China - WSJ 2021-03-03. I found the article through my public library February 27, 2021 Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College What I gather from this NY Times article: Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a February 17, 2021 President Trump wasn’t that bad I received this from my Canadian Cousin, Harry, who got it from his “friend Marty Cutler in Toronto (who gets more letters published in the Globe February 9, 2021 Rescripting Facts This article finally gave me a word to describe why it’s so hard, at least for me, to argue about politics with smart people who I disagree with: February 9, 2021 Letter to a friend living in a different world A friend sent me this note and attached video: I listened to the whole thing. Humphrey exclaims, “Biden says, ‘Every American gets the vaccine’”!! January 21, 2021 Janet Yellen WHO’S YELLEN NOW? You can read more about this here January 10, 2021 Pauline Harmange I learned about her from the NY Times. She has made waves because of her book Moi les hommes, je les déteste. Pauline Harmange also has a blog. January 4, 2021 For conservatives, a time for choosing Excerpts, with my emphasis from this source Sedition n. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority. Yesterday, the November 1, 2020 How I accidentally voted for a Republican and spoiled my Absentee ballot I got my Orange County, NC, absentee ballot in the mail and diligently filled all the little ovals. Then I asked my wife to witness by signing the February 23, 2020 Barry Saunders I went to Denise Allen’s exhibit this afternoon at the Carrboro Century Center, where Ms Allen gave a wonderful talk about her life and work. In the June 5, 2017 The End of Identity Liberalism Source June 1, 2017 Clinton’s misplaced criticism of the DNC as a cause of her defeat Source Of all the reasons Hillary Clinton thinks she lost the 2016 election to President Trump, the least among them was the state of the Democratic May 29, 2017 Political Strategy Notes — The Democratic Strategist Source As we commemorate Memorial Day, Samantha Layne’s “9 Ways Republicans Could Have Helped Veterans…But Decided Not To” at reverbpress.com October 3, 2016 Caso Lava Jato Source A Lava Jato e a importância da cooperação internacional para o combate ao crime foram temas de destaque em pronunciamentos de membros do October 3, 2016 Brazil’s ‘Car Wash’ Probe: Tell Me How This Ends Source During their first year in the spotlight, the young federal prosecutors leading the “Operation Car Wash” corruption probe seemed to handle October 2, 2016 Inside a Democratic Campaign—Last-Minute Expenditures Source Getting Out the Vote Campaigns Candidates often turn to last minute expenditures in get out the vote efforts as a way to make effective use August 7, 2013 Anti government blindness My sister’s best friend in Oregon likes to send out anti-government email. She used to put the addresses in the to field until I started using reply July 25, 2013 Another Silent Sam Letter Published June 22nd Here’s the column: By Sven Sonnenberg It’s 1913, in the middle of the night, and a group of UNC workers have just brought a July 8, 2013 global warming denial Ed Jackem gave me a paper by John R Christy, PhD, Univ of Alabama, Huntsville. The paper was apparently prepared for some Senate committee. It can