Category Archives: Freedom of Speech

Summary of Freedom House 2021 Report for the World and the US

Summary of Freedom House 2021 Report for the  World and US Freedom and Democracy. This is my own short summary.  They have excellent summary reports.   here is the longer one.  The website also allows you to follow countries individually by categories … Continue reading

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Fox and Hannity Meet the Rams, 49ers, and California Democrats

I wasn’t going to mix my football watching with my science-commentary articles, but sometimes it just falls into your lap.  I am watching the LA Rams – San Francisco 49ers on the Fox 11 network.  Then what should suddenly appear, … Continue reading

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Celebrating the Biden Presidency and Our Future Progress and Freedoms

President Biden, Beating the Coronavirus, Climate Change Mitigation, Blue State Freedom, DACA, Democratic City Freedom, University Freedom, Respect for Science, California VP and Future Presidential Candidate Harris. As Americans we have so much to celebrate today, and also as Californians.  … Continue reading

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Really President Trump, Now it is Censorship Enforced by Withholding Federal School Funding?

Really President Trump, Now its Censorship Enforced by Withholding Federal School Funding? Update:  I did not realize when I wrote this that Trump was directly threatening California which supposedly was going to or considering adopting a curriculum based on the … Continue reading

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In International Democracy Survey, US Drops to 36th, and Only 70%.

  We show the 2020 Democracy ratings of countries of current concern to the US.  The source of the ratings is the V-Dem Institute at V-dem.net.  We use data from Version 10 of April 2020.  The North American Regional Center … Continue reading

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Trump’s Election Interference Plots

Trump’s Election Forces  While Trump appears to be slowly adapting to the new constraints of an election in a pandemic year, he is mustering a breadth of election forces which have long been contemplated and hinted at.  Several of them … Continue reading

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All Tied Up in Politics: The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

Comments on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing. Don’t expect a politically blind review by me.  Dr. Birx was not present.  Nor was the head of the Warp Speed vaccine program.  Dr. Redfield of the CDC, Dr. … Continue reading

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Trump’s Dr. Teleprompter Jekyll versus Mr. Tweeter Hyde

Trump’s Dr. Teleprompter Jekyll versus Mr. Tweeter Hyde. I’m pretty sure that Trump doesn’t write his teleprompter prose, and only reads it as a recalcitrant second grader who is forced to read it.  We know that, because it is written … Continue reading

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Trump’s Mobs of Government Agents, versus Coronavirus Deaths

Trump’s Mob of Government Agents Trump’s Coronavirus Politics will kill 20 times as many as homicides by year’s end. In 2018, 16,000 Americans were killed by homicides or negligence.  Right now, 140,000 Americans have died from the Coronavirus because we … Continue reading

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Trump: The Denier of Freedoms, in Chief

Trump:  The Denier of Freedoms, in Chief Trump had the Trumpiness to tell a Fox News interviewer that he wanted people to have freedom not to wear a mask, as if he was the guaranteer of our freedoms.  Nothing could … Continue reading

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