Category: Politics
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Mrs Brown
Mrs Brown was my grade 2 teacher. She taught me many life skills: to spell “2” as two not tow, because if I did, I would have to tow her around the room. She taught us “duck and cover.” I’m not sure, however, how I would feel about her carrying a Magnum 45.
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It Can’t End Too Soon
Disclaimer: I’m a baby boomer The August 22-29 edition of Maclean’s Magazine included the article Blame the Boomers for this too? — How the protest generation of the ’60 left behind division, violence … and Trump and Clinton. It suggests, for all their ideals and promise, the legacy of the Boomer Generation is, at best,…
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Country Wanted
Ivanka Trump, oldest daughter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivered a speech and introduced her father at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday. I was thinking about the logic of the argument Ivanka Trump offered in her speech at the RNC for her father to be President of the United States:…
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Good, in Theory
in: Politics
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh — Voltaire [10] As Trump’s position solidifies, there is a growing chorus of media, celebrities and political elite sounding the alarm. Yet in the face of this growing opposition Trump’s position does not weaken; it gets stronger. How can this be?…
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Dying by The Word
In an article in the Atlantic Magazine, The Great Republican Revolt, David Frum chronicles the death of the GOP. It’s not there yet, but it certainly seems to be the prognosis. Supporting the hypothesis is that the political elite of the Party are said to be in a state of panic at the potential of a…