“BATON ROUGE, La. — It was a squabble over $2.9 million in property-tax breaks — small change for Exxon Mobil, a company that measures its earnings by the billions. But when the East Baton Rouge Parish school board rejected the energy giant’s rather routine request last month, the “no” vote went off like a bomb…
DetailsTexas Republicans Hit With Another Lawsuit Over ‘Unfounded Voter Purge’ GOP efforts to codify the disastrous investigation would also likely spur lawsuits. BACK
DetailsHere are a couple of new articles from the Opinion page of today’s New York Times that are worth our serious consideration. As I’ve mentioned before, if you want to get a good sense for how the Times’ readership feels about an article, go to their comments section and click on Reader’s Picks. You might be…
Details“that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S., 1933-45 BACK
DetailsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-82 “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” outre-mer, 1833-4 BACK
Details“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what…
DetailsAs I watch Donald Trump sow confusion and chaos in a nation that heretofore has been known to the world as a standard in all that is good in human nature, and as I watch his own political party stand aside in silence in the face of his selfish and destructive behavior, I am reminded…
DetailsAn hour after putting up my previous post, this story was published by the Associated Press: The Trump Administration is Holding Thousands of Migrant Kids in Mass Shelters. This is a prime example of what I was talking about. Dr. Jack Shonkoff, who, heads Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child said of the 14,000 migrant…
DetailsWhile reading of our current American Chaos in the morning’s paper (yes, actual newsprint), I was reminded of a phrase and a quotation that seem apt considerations for our national dilemma. The first is the Latin phrase “cui bono”, which means “to whose profit?” or “to whose benefit?” It is most often used today as…
DetailsCarl Jung “Evil needs to be pondered just as much as good, for good and evil are ultimately nothing but ideal extensions and abstractions of doing, and both belong to the chiaroscuro of life. In the last resort there is no good that cannot produce evil, and no evil that cannot produce good.” Collected…
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