Category Archives: Affairs of State

Questions About the Coronavirus, Wuhan, and US Quarantines and Vaccines

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Questions about the Coronavirus, Wuhan, and US Quarantines and Vaccines. We have great sympathy for the people of Wuhan, Hubei, and China suffering from the Coronavirus infection, and applaud their outstanding efforts to combat it for themselves and the world. … Continue reading →

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Republican Hypocrisy on Hunter Biden with their own Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Funding

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Republican Hypocrisy on Hunter Biden with their own Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Funding Republicans want us to see it as unfair that Hunter Biden took perhaps a million dollars a year for being on the board of a natural … Continue reading →

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Day One of the Full Trump Impeachment Defense

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Some thoughts on Day One of the Full Trump Impeachment Defense “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”. The gist of an hour of Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz.   If it wasn’t specifically treason or bribery, or … Continue reading →

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America’s Next Democracy Rating, and Chief Justice John Roberts’ View

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

America’s Next Democracy Rating, and Chief Justice John Roberts’ View Having just written articles on the Democracy and Freedom ratings of world countries, I was going to speculate on what our new ratings would be after the sham impeachment trial.  … Continue reading →

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All Hail, Dictator Trump

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

All Hail, Dictator Trump This morning, HRH Donald “The Don” Trump became America’s Dictator. The Republican Senate, to a Republican person, voted to table all new evidence in the mock impeachment “trial”.  Despite 12 hours of careful and convincing arguments … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Election, 2016 Primaries, 2020 Election, 2020 Primaries, Affairs of State, AG William Barr, Congress, Congressional Investigation, Constitution, Democracy Ratings, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Fifth Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Impeachment, Mueller Report, Politics, Secrecy, State Department, Supreme Court, Voting Rights | Tagged | Leave a comment

To Mitch “Stonewall” McConnell: Thanks for Making Your Impeachment Coverup So Obvious

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

To Mitch “Stonewall” McConnell:  Thanks for Making Your Impeachment Coverup So Obvious Also, as a plus, there are going to be several roll call votes on the Whitewash procedures, which will shade the Republican Senator’s participation in the coverup.  The … Continue reading →

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Average Temperatures of Key Cities in 2019, Most Above Normal

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

AccuWeather examined the average temperatures of 3,500 cities in 2019, and The NY Times set up a search site for cities.  Of those cities, 83% were higher than normal in 2019. 2019 was the second warmest year on record, just … Continue reading →

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Democracy Ratings for the US and Countries in the News from the V-Dem Institute

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We show graphs over time of the US and countries in the news, for five categories.  The ratings go from 1900 through 2018, unless only fewer years are available.  The source of the ratings is the V-Dem Institute at V-dem.net. … Continue reading →

Posted in Affairs of State, Democracy Ratings, Economies, Education, Equal Treatment Under the Law, Equality of Opportunity Project, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble, Freedom to Petition, Freedoms, Immigration Policy, Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Politics, Religion, Secrecy, Syria, Turkey, United Nations, Voting Rights, Women’s Rights | Leave a comment

The United States and the World in the Freedom in the World 2019 Ratings

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We show graphs in the Freedom House report “Freedom in the World 2019” by Freedom House at freedomhouse.org, for both the United States, and for World countries. We show the decline in the US Freedom rating over 10 years from … Continue reading →

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Ratings of Freedom and Democracy, and the Concept of Zero, Zilch, Nada

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Ratings of Freedom and Democracy, and the Concept of Zero, Zilch, Nada There are new Democracy Ratings, and still last year’s Freedom Rating, which I have been studying for reporting.  In the 2018 Freedom House ratings, the US was a … Continue reading →

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