Yearly Archives: 2016

We now live in a society that is ruled by so many laws, no single person can keep track of them all.

Bernie Sanders was able to raise over $33 million for his campaign with only small donations from supporters.

Donald Trump and the GOP seem like an unlikely pair for the 2016 presidential race. We will have to stay tuned to see if they will end up working out together.

“Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich must soon perish from the earth—or the climate perishes first.”

Thousands of residents in New Jersey will soon lose their food stamps because of Gov. Chris Christie.

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

The tally does not include the six Baltimore officers charged with causing Freddie Gray’s fatal spinal injuries.

4. WSJ Op-Ed Claims Finding That Bacon Causes Cancer Is Part Of Climate Change Conspiracy.

The issues facing the US in a presidential election year are simply too important for the candidates to ignore. And yet, while this suggests that they need to display policy mastery and even, now and again, genuine statesmanship, they are instead merely assuring voters that they will “keep us safe.”

"The new Shabab video featuring Donald Trump appears clear evidence jihadists hope to use him to specifically solicit American recruits."