Category Archives: Impeachment

Quinnipiac Polls on Student Loan Reduction, Climate Change, and Abortion Rights

Student Loan Reduction Overall, Americans approve of President Biden’s cancellation of some student loan debt by 53% to 43%.  The Quinnipiac polling was from August 25-29, with a 2.5% error. Democrats approve of it 88% to 9%; Independents approve of … Continue reading

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The Slap Heard ‘Round the World, and US, Ukraine, and Nuclear Violence

The Slap Heard ‘Round the World, and US, Ukraine, and Nuclear Violence I have retreated from further commenting on the Ukraine genocide because of the sadness of what is going on and the feeling and reality of helplessness to stop … Continue reading

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The International Democracy Survey of 2022

For most countries, there are few changes from the Survey of 2021, which we recently put up.  The 2022 survey includes events through 2021.  The 2022 Survey is at V-dem.org.  It is a compilation of ratings from 0 to 1 … Continue reading

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The International Democracy Survey of 2021

The International Democracy Survey Evaluation of governments for 2021 shows continual decrease in Democratic ratings.  They use 3,500 scholars and country experts to evaluate 179 countries on hundreds of attributes.  The 2021 report is at V-Dem.org.  In general, the global … Continue reading

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A Day of Rememberance

This is a day when cumulative stories are all pointing to how we are going backwards on equity, gender, and Democracy.  Rather than the usual morality arguments on why all of them have bad sides, I need only present them … Continue reading

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Trump’s Inciting Insurrection is Not Allowable Free Speech

I remember my college philosophy course of some 60 years ago, where on free speech the standard limit was given:  “You don’t yell ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater”.  All of us have heard this standard limit over the years. Nobody … Continue reading

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The Bonfire of the Trump Vanities

The Bonfire of the Trump Vanities While capturing headlines with the greatest election fraud ever of declaring himself the winner, and then inciting the successful invasion and terrorization of the Congress, Trump and his minions have been carrying out a … Continue reading

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The Nobel Peace Prize Should Not be Bought by Trump for Arming Dictators

You Shouldn’t Win a Nobel Peace Prize for Selling Weapons of War to Dictators Three stories collided to make this article.   First, Trump is selling F35s, our most sophisticated fighter jets, to the UAE in order to get them … 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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The Judicial Corruption of Trump, Barr, McConnell, and the Republican Senate

The Judicial Corruption of Trump, Barr, McConnell, and the Republican Senate You don’t need to be a law professor to see mob rule. Yesterday’s huge corruption of justice is Trump’s Tulsa Rally promise to select and name 50 people who … Continue reading

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