Is America Crazy?

Posted by on Sep 1, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The United States witnessed three mass shootings in one week recently in California, Texas, and Ohio. There have been more than 250 mass shootings so far in 2019, more than one a day. This year in America, more than 33,000 shooting incidents have killed more than 8,700 people. America is the richest country in the world, but it has more than half a million homeless and 28 million people without...
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The GOP’s Sinister New Nationalism

Posted by on Sep 1, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The worst thing you could be in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s was a “rootless cosmopolitan.” The epithet sometimes came with a death sentence. The Soviet Communist Party, under the strong guiding hand of Joseph Stalin, had long turned its back on the internationalism of its founders and their commitment to world revolution. In its place, Stalin vowed to “build socialism in one...
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To Impeach or Not to Impeach

Posted by on Aug 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The Democratic Party faces a very difficult decision. Some members want to begin impeach proceedings against President Donald Trump. They believe that the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller provides enough evidence that the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors. And they think that the president has demonstrated in many ways that he is unfit for the office. The Democratic Party...
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Will AI Swing the 2020 Elections?

Posted by on Aug 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Imagine, on the day before the 2020 presidential election, that someone posts a video of the Democratic candidate talking before a group of donors. The candidate admits to being ashamed to be an American, confesses that the United States is a malevolent force in the world, and promises to open borders, subordinate the country to the UN, and adopt a socialist economic system. The video goes viral....
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Ayatollah Trump

Posted by on Apr 13, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments If Donald Trump goes to church regularly, he’s kept it a pretty good secret. He and his wife have made sure to alert the press on the few times he does attend services, for instance on Christmas and St. Patrick’s Day. Otherwise, the president seems to worship regularly only at the Church of the Hole in One. Since inauguration, he has made 165 visits (and counting) to golf courses, often on...
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Will Trump Rule by Decree

Posted by on Jan 8, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The Republican Party, since its takeover by Reaganauts in the 1980s, has long favored shrinking the federal government to the point at which it can be “drowned in the bathtub,” to use Grover Norquist’s colorful phrase. Tax cuts reduce the federal budget. Budget cuts weaken social programs. Even cutting remarks have their effect. Reagan got plenty of laughs when he said, “The nine most...
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