Tag: Ronald Reagan
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Americans should fear the IRS again
The Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed by the Senate on Sunday and should pass the House on Friday, has $80B in new funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A lot of that money is going to modernize its woefully underfunded infrastructure, which is still stuck in the 1960s. If you need any convincing […]
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What is Putin afraid of on Ukraine?
About a hundred thousand Russian troops are amassed along Russia’s border with Ukraine, ready to invade the country on Vladimir Putin’s command. Whether this actually happens is problematic and it may amount to a lot of saber rattling. Since 2014, when Ukraine peacefully elected a democratic leader and legislature, it has petitioned to join NATO. […]
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It’s the end of times! Again!
There are lots of political and sociological theories going around about … well, what’s going around: current events. We are living through a pretty stressful time: covid-19, hyper-partisanship, so-called “fake news”, a climate crisis, a refugee crisis, police brutality against people of color … it all seems to be heaped on top of each other […]
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November is likely to fatally maim the Republican Party
In January 2019 I wrote this post about how Trump was likely to kill the Republican Party. At the time, a Marist poll noted that 57% of voters surveyed said they would never vote for Trump, which if true pretty much doomed his reelection prospects. I said then it was likely to kill the party. […]
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The needless suffering all around us
My wife is volunteering at the local survival center. Twice a week during the dinner hour she volunteers there, helping to serve 40 to 80 families (sometimes more) survive during her shift. The center takes all comers, so the undocumented and homeless are served. It’s not mostly these people that the center serves though. It’s […]
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Whites are being horribly exploited … by other whites
Fox News host Laura Ingraham drew some attention in August when she said this on her Fox News TV show: “In some parts of the country, it does seem like the America we know and love don’t exist anymore,” she said, with videos of agricultural work playing over her shoulder. “Massive demographic changes have been […]
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Stoking toxic white masculinity or why we’re going postal
Go on. Take a look at Mother Jones’s Google sheet showing mass shootings in the United States. The spreadsheet starts in 1982. Prior to that these were rarely a problem. Since then incidents of mass homicide by gun have increased in general year by year, with the number of fatalities and injured increasing too, often […]
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Trump’s nuclear no-no
Oy! It was another week of bellicose theatrics from our president. Trump, ever eager for more attention, went places that no recent president would have ever dreamed of going. As usual Trump picked the worst location to threaten nuclear war: the United Nations, an organization we helped create to promote peace and understanding and reduce […]
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The folly of voting third-party for president
It’s post Labor Day and it’s a presidential election year. You know what that means. According to our press, it means people are now starting to seriously pay attention to the upcoming election. I find this hard to believe. Granted that I am something of a political junkie but it must be a very, very […]
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