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During the Trump town hall TV interview there was a women who was positioned behind Trump on his left side and camera right who used head and hand gestures to support Trumps’s statements. I accuse NBC for allowing this to happen. It sort of makes the network look to be in favor of Trump. The producer was at fault for placing this person in the image. I fault the director for not asking the camera person to move his or…
Opinion A lot of politics is dealing with values of one group and trade offs against another group. Not only politicians but also the American public have to deal with weighing the interests of one group and maybe not another group. Let us take brief snapshots of past and current political actions of national party members and their followers and possibly reveal the advantage for some but hurt, if any, for the “other” group. The evangelicals believe in pro-life or…
I Was Never Trump. Not Anymore. He has weaknesses, but his presidency has been successful. By Michael I. Krauss This opinion piece appeared in the September 3, 2020, print edition as ‘I Was Never Trump. Not Anymore.’ This opinion piece can also be found here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-was-never-trump-not-anymore-11599087108 The Wall Street Journal offers good news reporting but their opinion section appears to be flawed. “… nearly 300 of The Journal’s news staff members sent a letter to the paper’s publisher, Almar Latour, condemning the opinion…
One of the major take away lessons from being a sociology major was the concept of “empirical Indicator” which means that some real life items we view in life stand for something else which often times is way more important. Another aspect for finding an empirical indicator is it frequently stands true for other similar situations. So, you can often times make a collection of these indicators to carry with you for future encounters. Often times they help you to…
I would like to apologize to everyone who visits this web site. I have been away from this web site since the end of January 2020, due to my sister developing brain cancer. I am the only living relative that she has. I was given power of attorney for all of my sister’s affairs. My whole life has changed dramatically.
I received the following e-mail message from an Indivisible activist: “I’ve moved from despair over not being able to get the goods on Trump to despair over the Republicans and people who don’t want him impeached in the face of ALL the IRREFUTABLE evidence of multiple illegal and impeachable offenses we now have. Sometimes I just get angry and say to myself that THEY don’t deserve Democracy, but of course they take us all down with them!” My reply follows…
“The impeachment process will reveal whether Republicans will tolerate corruption, dishonesty, & avarice in our Nation’s highest office. If so, America’s political soul & global standing will be indelibly sullied, and Donald Trump will have destroyed the very heart of the GOP.”
Opinion Based On Facts Trump seems to be hurting the working class in so many different ways. Let us examine some of them. He and his party recently passed a tax bill that was a smoke and mirror act by claiming it was a universal tax cut but in reality offered tax cuts for the low and middle class while handing huge tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations. Trump and his party have called for cuts to Social…
Opinion Facebook is currently protected by a legal provision called “safe harbor”. The legal definition is that it gives legal protection from liability under specified conditions. Safe harbor is necessary for such industries that provide the pipes through which data flows because their only purpose is to link two opposing points with information. They do not create the content, they provide the connections between the send and receive points. They should not be responsible for the content they move through…
I find it impossible not to categorize “collude” as a crime. But, collusion, itself, is not a specific federal crime. The dictionary definition comes close to saying that the Trump administration did commit a crime. The Trump administration did collude with the enemy of the Untied States, Russia, as outlined in the Mueller Report.