In Her Best Neville Chamberlain voice, Marjorie Taylor Greene Lays The Groundwork for WWIII

This past week Marjorie Taylor Greene took a stand against the United States providing continuing military support for Ukraine in their efforts to repel an invasion by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday vowed to nix American funding for Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion if the GOP…

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Book Report: Economix by Michael Goodwin

Looking for a primer on economics that’s not all addled economics gobbledy-gook that reads like Milton Friedman and puts you to sleep? Well, this graphic text book might be what you want if you want to understand socialism and capitalism and communism and any of the other ism trends. Mr….

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling On Extended Absentee Ballot Rules

This is a little arcane! LOL!. But the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago allowed US District Judge William Conley’s ruling on absentee ballots in Wisconsin stand. I complained last week about Judge Conley’s late rulings on all of this…and this isn’t over yet despite it being just weeks…

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This Is The President of the United States?

Americans are dying. Because of a pandemic that couldn’t have been avoided but could have been lessened by prompt and timely action of the federal government. Instead President Donald Trump frittered away two or three or maybe four months of response time because he essentially didn’t know what to do…

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How Long Will Dr. Fauci Last Now?

I have seen several social media items saying that President Donald Trump is concerned with Dr. Fauci’s factual and scientific rebuttals of the president’s wild assed comments about COVID-19. Some have even quoted the NY Times but I haven’t found anything quite so direct. But there is this at the…

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High school students walk out of school to bring attention to gun violence

I am going to risk the wrath of the powers that be at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by reprinting this article in its entirety, because I don’t think it’s going to get enough coverage… ‘We are going to bring about this change’: High school students walk out of school to…

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SYD: John Lennon

“Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to…

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Trump Impeachment proceedings are unusual? Well actually not!

We keep seeing the headlines that if President Donald Trump is impeached, it would only be the third time in history. That part is right but the fact that there is an impeachment inquiry and now a report is not that unusual…and a number of unsuccessful impeachment votes have been…

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If there had been no Cuban Missile Crisis

President Ronald Reagan would never have spoken at the Berlin Wall Vladimir Putin would be the current premier of the Soviet Union President Donald Trump couldn’t run amok in the Ukraine So apparently Nikita Khrushchev interfered with out 2016 election

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And The New Cold War Started Today!

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by then President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned land based intermediate missiles with ranges of 311 to 3,420 miles. Both nations already have missiles in this range that can be launched from air craft and naval vessels….

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