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SOME QUICK THOUGHTS on the Pennsylvania Primary this week… In Chester County, where I live, almost 9,000 more Democrats than Republicans turned out. At most polling places Democrats had a Continue Reading →
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SOME QUICK THOUGHTS on the Pennsylvania Primary this week… In Chester County, where I live, almost 9,000 more Democrats than Republicans turned out. At most polling places Democrats had a Continue Reading →
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Trial coverage is an example of broadcast “news” inability to play it straight, to cut back on the drama and actually used a functional definition of what news is. If Continue Reading →
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SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS… Oh, Marjorie… So, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the lightweight Republican nutcase from Georgia, says she will make a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he Continue Reading →
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Note from Rich Heiland, emptyingmybrain… For almost 60 years, George S. Smith worked as a newspaper reporter, photographer, investigative journalist, newspaper association executive, travel writer, higher education instructor, motivational speaker, Continue Reading →
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Stray thoughts from the brain pan Every single person on this planet, now, then, and in the future, had/has/will have something that irritates the unholy hell out of them. That Continue Reading →
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I take the office of state attorney general, very seriously, having lived in Texas under two radical Republican AGs. After spending some time listening to Eugene DePasquale I decided he Continue Reading →
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Fifty years ago today a record wave of tornadoes swept the Midwest. The largest hit Xenia, Ohio, leading to more then 30 deaths, hundreds of injuries and destruction of almost Continue Reading →
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Trump has set a record for lying but so far his faithful followers don’t seem to care, or understand. We don’t have room for all 30,000-plus of Trump’s documented lies, Continue Reading →
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Democrats are beginning to listen to their past winners and the message is that whoever wins Main Street is going to win everything else. That’s going to require you and Continue Reading →
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HEADLINES ARE NOT the story, but it is a worldwide truism that many people interested in news simply read or glance at the headlines and then decide what articles to read. That makes Continue Reading →
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This is not journalism. This is not “telling both sides.” It is crass commercialism devoid of ethics and anyone who wants serious responsible dialogue from a variety of view points Continue Reading →
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Trump and the Republican Study Committee aren’t even hiding their planned abuse of most of society any more. The question is, why are the most abused among his most ardent Continue Reading →
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Woe is me! Remember the old “Heehaw” television show skit about “bad luck”? “Gloom, despair and agony on me Deep dark depression, excessive misery….” It seems sometimes the world is Continue Reading →
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What were Republicans thinking? A former cheerleader, over-acting from her sparkling unnaturally clean kitchen is going to win over the women? KATIE BRITT. Excuse me, make that Senator Katie Britt, Continue Reading →
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Joe Biden showed energy and class in a make-or-break speech. Republicans showed they are the party of doom, gloom, living in a dark world without joy or hope. Here’s hoping Continue Reading →
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EVERY ELIGIBLE PERSON in the United States should vote. Every vote does matter….and ought to count in every election. Let’s talk about the pros and cons of the Electoral College, shall Continue Reading →
Biden does not have dementia. Trump probably does not, either. In a second term Biden will be surrounded by an excellent team; Trump will be surrounded by toadies whose only Continue Reading →
George prefers the way AI views him, as opposed to…… THIS COLUMN HAS explored, in the past, the explosion of artificial intelligence applications (AI), listed the benefits, especially in the medical Continue Reading →
It’s snowing outside, I’ve got a warm cup of coffee and just gone done with the morning papers and on-line news….so…. I thought after the Kansas Citymass shootingsI’d write a post about Continue Reading →
HAVE YOU PUT your foot into the netherworld of artificial intelligence (AI)? If you are on the internet, use social media in any form, follow specific political party palaver, or get Continue Reading →
New year: Trying something new In writing more than 7,000 newspaper opinion columns in more than 50 years, this is the only one ever written in free-verse poetry form. It is Continue Reading →
An Arkansas hillbilly (oh, and accomplished journalist and thinker) weighs in with a look at the New Year and Donald Trump BIGLY TRUISMS to start off 2024….. Let’s start off 2024 Continue Reading →
The name game played by folks in all walks of life – from scientists to politicians to activists to reactionary and wrong-headed activists, all can be disconcerting. Being politically correct Continue Reading →
Anyone who is even remotely considering voting for anyone other than Biden needs help or a brain transplant IF IT WASN’T clear before that Donald Trump and almost all of the Continue Reading →
“Antisemitism is a variant of racism…. that is, stereotyping and discrimination leading to intimidation, threats, harm, and marginalization or exclusion of individuals because they belong or are supposed to belong to certain ethnic or associated religious group, in this case Jewish ethnicity or religion.” ANTISEMITISM Continue Reading →
Then there is the whole thing with just not liking women… INCOMING! A righteous question. Why does the Republican Party as a whole hate women? Some readers are shaking their heads Continue Reading →
The best way to ensure our democracy survives these troubled times is not to support any candidate running as under the Republican label, given how that party has endorsed MAGA Continue Reading →
Facts / interpretations / warfare – History is littered with events that research shows didn’t happen or were overblown. It is hard to avoid being a part of spreading misinformation Continue Reading →
These programs are not “gimme” programs. You have paid, and are paying for them. Republicans, regardless of their protests to the contrary, want to cut them. Fact. Don’t let them Continue Reading →
While the newly-elected Speaker says he supports aid to Israel, he’s tying granting that aid to far-right social sending cuts in the U.S. Doesn’t sound like someone who really cares Continue Reading →
The man who now is second line for the presidency is a hard-core far-right Christian Nationalist. The Republican Party has pulled off the sheets and identified itself for what it Continue Reading →