Two Areas Where Media is Dropping the Ball

We Need Better Than This About That Whole “Fourth Branch of Government” Thing From its earliest days, America – well, some Americans, anyway – have recognized the importance of a free and responsible press to democracy. We all know the famous lines from Jefferson, wherein he stated that if …
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Yes, I Said Happy Holidays. You Should, Too

Why That is The Best – Most American – of Seasonal Greetings The War That Never Was We generally recognize by now that there is an unholy coalition of politicized evangelicals, talk radio/social media and FFN (Fox Fake News – my new moniker for them) that thrive on whipping up …
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Care for Some More Good News?

The Last Week or So Has Been Busy for Justice. The Score? Justice wins 4-1 A Lot of Cases Came to Fruition Almost Simultaneously By my count, no less than six major legal events happened in the last few days. That alone is worth noting. But the specific outcomes are the …
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It’s Thanksgiving Week – How About a Little Fun for the Holiday?

Sharing Two of My Favorite Holiday Laughs
Art Buchwald Explains Thanksgiving to the French This is something of a tradition on this blog – a posting I repeat every Thanksgiving. If you read it before, feel free to read it again. I must have read it 50 times by …
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Sometimes the Big Important Things Show Up in Small Ways

Two Events in Congress Answer the Question- How Bad Could It Get? A Congressman from Arizona Shows There is No Bottom A few days ago Rep Paul Gosar ran a little video on Twitter, depicting a cartoon in which he murdered another member of Congress, someone who has already …
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Items of Note Over the Last Few Days

Five Things That Caught My Eye Last Week – Some Good, Some Not Timing Whoever first said that “timing is everything” sure had a point. As we noted earlier, if the Infrastructure Bill had passed a month or two earlier, it’s possible that the incoming governor of VA would be …
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