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Category Archives: Politics
The Elephant Factor in Last Night’s Debate
Growing older may not be a disease, but like many diseases, it’s progressive. Not only do we diminish in physical capacity, but in mental acuteness as well, resulting in a lower threshold in processing information. Aging needn’t be feared per … Continue reading
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When Religion Strays too Far: The Hobby Lobby Aftermath
It’s sufficiently dismaying that the Supreme Court via its Hobby Lobby decision has further defined corporate entities as people, and thus with inherent individual rights. Not only do corporations have unlimited spending rights when it comes to elections, but with … Continue reading
Convincing meteorologists that climate change is real
You can see from the above photo the challenge our president faces in convincing, of all people, our meteorologists, that climate change isn’t simply cyclic, but ongoing, posing devastating consequences for America, with no region spared. Further, we humans are … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Meteorologists, President Obama
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Climate Change: Can we win the fight?
We just celebrated Earth Day on April 22, an annual fête of huge importance for those of us wanting to increase the public’s awareness of the challenge of climate change, and our substantial human contribution to it, and ways we … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, People, Politics, Reflections
Tagged climate, climate change, divestment, environment, fossil fuel divestment, Gary Peters, Global Warming, Harvard University, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Keystone XL, Koch brothers, Obama, Sierra Club, sit-ins, Vietnam
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Putin: Better Think Again!
In a recent interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said Crimea can be written off as a Ukrainian entity, with the possibility of still further Russian intervention in Ukraine until Putin gets a government to … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, Kiev, Putin, Robert Gates, Russia, Russian economy, Russian oil and gas, Russian oligarchy, Ukraine
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Sequel to Russian Incursion: Ukraine’s Likely Fate
What we’re seeing in Ukraine we’ve seen before; namely, Russia’s incursion into Georgia in 2008 when that government attempted to wrest back its secessionist breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. We did nothing then. We will do little now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, G8, Hungary 1956, Putin, Russia, Russian Invasion, Soviets in Afghanistan, Ukraine
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Russia Likely to Intervene in Ukraine
Last week, Ukrainian protestors in Kiev’s Maidan (its central square) were mowed down by security forces of the hated Yanukovych regime. Undeterred, they advanced into the fusillade. What is life without freedom? I’ve been thinking a lot about Ukraine, no … Continue reading
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Tagged collectivization, Crimea, Eurasian Custom Union, Kiev, Maidan, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Yanukovych
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Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Mayhem Alive and Well
Despite President Obama’s spirited pledge to reduce the growing gap between rich and poor, his administration has been covertly involved in negotiating a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement whose potential fallout would only exacerbate, not lessen, the economic divide, consolidating … Continue reading
Governor Cuomo: “They have no place in the state of New York.”
As New York governor Andrew Cuomo sees it, pro-life activists, anti-gay activists and Second Amendment supporters aren’t welcome in his state: Their problem (GOP) is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are these extreme … Continue reading
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The Yacht Mentality that Threatens our Economy
I turned on the TV while eating lunch yesterday to a feature called “Island Paradises,” thinking Hawaii or maybe some Caribbean gem like Dominica or St. Vincent’s. Instead, it was about one man’s substantial investment, worth $28 million, in a … Continue reading
