Month: February 2018

The Second Amendment is an Anachronism

The U.S. Constitution provided for a permanent Navy, but it would not do the same for an army. The Congress shall have Power To …raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer...

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The Story of Stone, Manafort and Donald Trump

At age 19 or 20, Roger Stone, who was then an employee of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), was the youngest person to testify before the Watergate grand jury. Call it a badge of honor. In 1977, Paul Manafort...

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Zeroed Out Again

On Booman’s most recent post (The Polluters are in Control), the first comment was from donnah. I agreed, and elaborated on my agreement. One of the recent neo-centrist, neo-McCarthyite cowards on this blog zeroed me out....

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Friday Foto Flogging 2.14

Sunset near the Arkansas-Missouri border Greetings photography enthusiasts. It’s Friday, and time for a new monthly foto flog.Please note that this is a reboot of a series that went to seed a few years ago. I know that...

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The Polluters are in Control

In 2017, 13 federal agencies expressed high confidence that “more than 92 percent of the observed rise in global average temperatures since 1950 is the direct result of human activity.” But the Trump administration...

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