PULLQUOTE: During the weekend of Aug. 4-5 (and the preceding Friday night), 12 Chicagoans were shot dead, and 62 others were shot and wounded, the Chicago Tribune reported. Before last week’s mayhem, 1,718 Chicagoans […]
“Fellow countrymen: Two hundred forty-two years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Equality guarantees everyone’s freedom […]
The Mercatus Center published a working paper by Charles Blahous last week on the “Medicare For All” (M4A) bill sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Every Bernie follower in the modern Socialist Democratic Party (SDP) ran […]
Remember the familiar lament from President Barack Obama’s team for eight long years? “Two percent real GDP growth is the new normal for the U.S. economy.” Two percent annual growth wasn’t even the “new normal” […]
Poverty is no mystery, and it’s easily avoidable. The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was […]
The latest annual report by British Petroleum on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions once again serves to remind us that the previous administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) may simply have been an attempt to claim […]
Much has been written about the Tea Party and the right-wing fundamentalist Christian influence on the Republican Party over the years. Editorial writers seem to believe the more they write about ‘how dysfunctional’ the GOP […]
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted that if Donald Trump were elected, there would be a protracted recession within 18 months. Heeding its experts, a month before the election, The Washington Post ran an editorial […]
The complexity of allegations against President Donald Trump continue to grow and Trump’s political and policy moves have remained remarkably simple. That simplicity was likely a key to Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 […]
While in Maine recently, we marveled at the beauty of the coastline, the bustling small towns and harbors, and the majesty of Acadia National Park. We also saw tons of portraits and lithographs of Civil […]
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