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When you treat government like a business, with the balance sheet driving all decisions – and with no moral compass to guide you – here is what happens. Yesterday, the House Kill-All-Regulations Committee chaired by […]
Yesterday evening, the State Department announced that Iran had met the conditions required by last summer’s nuclear proliferation agreement and that sanctions would be lifted. Here are the details, from Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz: […]
The New York Times goes there … lays in out in, yes, black and white and in plain sight. Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with […]
From the Rake’s Progress, William Hogarth, Bedlam, 1733 Bethlehem Hospital, (Bedlam) London, the source from which many of our stereotypes of the mentally ill have come. Author’s Note: I published this post about two and […]
I don’t have anything new or insightful to say about the mass killings we’ve witnessed, but my feelings about them need a voice before I fall apart. The one last week, the one at the […]
Right-wing canard alert!! Yesterday’s domestic terrorism incident at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs generated a cornucopia of right-wing canards (do not cook and eat them, they are poisonous!). Here’s one! From a congressman […]
There were a lot of rumors swirling around (including in the New York Times and the Hill) about some truly terrible proposals for Disability Insurance in the proposed budget deal being negotiated now. I don’t […]
In a stunning upset, Liberals gained 150 seats in Parliament and will form a Liberal government. The conservative government of Stephen Harper lost their majority of 166 seats to end up with 99 after the […]
Is there a “gun culture? And is it related to gun ownership and to accidental shootings? Given the many disturbing facts, statistics, and daily poignant case examples, I remain continuously perplexed that Americans continue on […]
Well, at least I am honest about it! Pope Francis spoke to a joint session of Congress this morning. (CSPAN Video) The audience included some of the justices of the Supreme Court but not the […]
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