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July 31, 2024 Trump’s Melt Down

by Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson Letters from an American Yesterday, from a Harris campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta reporter Tariro Mzezewa noted that the crowd of 10,000 people “was ecstatic. There was chanting, cheering, singing, and dancing for hours in the lead-up to and throughout the event,” Mzezewa wrote today in Slate.  Mzezewa reported that rapper […]

Commentaries by Two of My Fav Writers

Two interesting commentaries up next. One by Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson (Letters from an American) and the other from Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse). I read them both after I read the commentaries from our own writers. The topic by both should not be surprising. Both are discussing Trumps breakdown when asked questions about his beliefs on […]

Boomers were the yuppies, not the hippies

The “baby boom” began in 1946 and ended in 1964. I’m a boomer. In fact, I was born in the mathematical center of the baby boom. I was 14 when Woodstock happened. Boomers have been credited (or blamed) for the tumultuous ‘60s of civil rights and hippie fame. But that’s anachronistic. Here’s Louis Man and […]

Paul Dans departs, the Trump campaign disavows Project 2025. We knew nothing . . .

Important Alert: Update on Project 2025, Civil Discourse Claiming in a press release that they had “nothing to do” with Project 2025 and that it wasn’t “associated with the campaign or the President in any way.” In what appeared to be a closely related action to Paul Dans departure, the Trump campaign disavowed Project 2025. […]

Jobs Report July 30, 2024. Time for the FED to Lower Fed Rates

The latest Jobs Report numbers I pulled off of the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. It would appear the FED has done its job in lowering inflation to the point the nation may slip into a recession. For the last couple of months this is what New Deal democrat has been reporting also. “In other […]

SCOTUS Term Limits, Immunity, and Ethical Behavior

I subscribe to Prof. Heather’s “Letters” site. Sometimes I will comment there in my usual style of discussion and providing information. Yesterday’s commentary is about SCOTUS and its drift away from neutrality in making its ever-lasting decisions. This is not about whether SCOTUS is a conservative or liberal court. Many of the previous courts have […]

Book proposal: Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading 

The second part of my book proposal is a chapter outline and summary. I will be doing that on the installment plan, one chapter at a time. Below is a table of contents: 2.0 Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading – part 2.0 – Angry Bear 2.1 Ambivalence – Angry Bear […]

Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading — part 2.0

Book proposal: Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading — part 2.0 The second part of my book proposal is a chapter outline and summary. I will be doing that on the installment plan, one chapter at a time. Below is a table of contents:

Dr. Fauci is a hero

The most economically consequential event of the past decade was the COVID pandemic. It saw countless heroic actions that will be forever unrecognized. Among those who were recognized were Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines. A more controversial figure […]