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Monday, September 1, 2025

The continuing defamation of Gordon Wood by the "resistance" historian, Tad Stoermer

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This historian, Tad Stoermer , loves to overstate things in this Tik-Tok video. It's too bad because I can largely agree with him. Firs...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

A public comment I made to the US government not to gut the civil service.

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Yesterday was the last day to submit a public comment against Trump's plan to gut the professional civil service known as Schedule F ref...

CNN did a great public service in showing the Murrow-McCarthy play. Its context before and after the play was largely awful.

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It was funny in a sardonic way for me to see how, before and after the CNN showing of the Murrow play with George Clooney, the people interv...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

First they came for...then they came for...and now the universities; Timothy Snyder has missed the moment until it is too late

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I guess  this video from now former Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder is okay. But note how Snyder never connects the dots to how come ...
Friday, April 11, 2025

The PDA leader's proposal for an outside-inside strategy to transform the Democratic Party leaves me more convinced of my proposal

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I read this important proposal, set forth in the LA Progressive online magazine, from PDAer Alan Minsky and hoped to be convinced why I am...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Tariffs, infrastructure, taxes, religion, ideology, and, at long last, smart policy-making. Too bad we won't get to smart policy-making in the current discourse.

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Up into the 2010s and perhaps even into the 2016 campaign, I was either pro-tariff or neutral on the topic of tariffs. In the 1990s, I stron...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Time for the national Dems to go the way of the once-national Whig Party. Only national politicians can make this start to happen.

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I have reached the conclusion that national progressive Dems in Congress need to strongly consider, and then do, what then-progressive Whigs...