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It seems those who attacked the Capitol last week are being charged and arrested like they have over-due parking tickets. Department of Justice is not taking this seriously enough. There is a sort...
by edbb
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on Fri Jan 22, 2021 at 08:25 PM PST
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Most of the "facts" seem to be in if one presumes media has accurately presented on the Michael Brown death at the hand of Officer Darren Wilson. Below the squiggly a outline of what has been in ...
by edbb
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on Tue Aug 26, 2014 at 07:57 PM PDT
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Sometimes something goes on in Washington that is just so astounding it seems the folks there live on another planet. Yesterday Chris Mathews replayed video of Mr. Holder unable to give a ...
by edbb
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on Fri Mar 08, 2013 at 01:52 PM PST
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It's about that time when many of us will be travelling --often staying in motels. Two things I have noticed: (1) Motels usually have an abbreviated selection of cable channels. Most include ...
by edbb
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on Thu Apr 26, 2012 at 07:07 PM PDT
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I don't claim to be any expert on national security or secret classification but the Bin Laden raid has caused me to do a little thinking. Why did we (the public) need to know that computers, ...
by edbb
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on Fri May 06, 2011 at 06:35 AM PDT
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I met my good friend Ned Ells for a few beers the other night. Ned was a little more morose than usual.
"What's the matter Ned?" I asked.
Ned plopped down the sample ballot that came ...
by edbb
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on Fri Oct 29, 2010 at 05:41 PM PDT
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- I’m increasingly confident that the person who will save our democracy from Donald Trump is Donald Trump. The former president and insurrectionist-in-chief, shameless peddler of trinkets and shiny objects to his slack-jawed cult, and unrepentant...151 comments 249 Recs
- Imagine, if you will, Benedict Arnold’s treason was exposed in 1780, but before the Colonial Army’s final victory at Yorktown in 1781, General Washington had to provide Arnold with detailed attack plans and military intelligence gleaned from American...202 comments 577 Recs
- We see phone polls or internet surveys every day that show Trump leading Biden in the presidential race. Can't escape them really. Seems every pollster wants to jump on the bandwagon. I'm not a pollster. I generally don't put much faith into a...79 comments 200 Recs
- Today is my last day, because I had already assigned work in a couple of classes, and I have an obligation to grade that work and enter it into the grading and attendance program. I tried yesterday, but it was clear in my first two periods that the...227 comments 687 Recs
- — — This video is fun, and educational too. Only 6 minutes long too. Why Does Flying Suck So Much? by Robert Reich — Sept 6, 2023 Here is my somewhat paraphrased summary of this educational video — who says “economic stuff” has to be boring … not...180 comments 227 Recs
- Republicans know they can count on Democrats to wimp out every time, although Dems like to say “We are the adults in the room.” Look, this isn't complicated. You have heard the expression, “Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight?” Tuberville is doing...368 comments 594 Recs
- Everything for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove, that wealth does not consist in money or in gold...40 comments 75 Recs
- Republican Congress members held another of their many, many rage-filled hearings on Thursday. This one had the stated purpose of propping Republican-supported spoiler candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr .206 comments 570 Recs
- The feud between Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and MTG escalated a few notches in the past few hours today. Is this theater or is this another crack in the republican party that can potentially become a fissure within the leadership and within the voter base?...140 comments 248 Recs
- Throughout the Trump presidency, we have seen attempts by Trump supporters to portray Donald Trump as somehow being the victim of vitriol from his opponents at a level that has been unprecedented in presidential history. The image at the top of...286 comments 449 Recs
