Ideas, Opinions, Genealogy, and Book Reviews
Is there a God? What is God?
Do you believe in God? Which God? If you think there is a God what is this god like. What can god do? What has God done?
Continue reading “Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins”
Who are the Bloodthirsty Senators and what did they do the deserve that name? Let me backup a bit and explain that.
Yesterday I got my email newsletter from Senator Toomey. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is one of the US Senators for my state. While I often disagree with him, I thought highly of his efforts to get the Senate to approve of universal background checks.
I found Executive Privilege to be confusing. It frequently pops up in the news as we read about disputes between the President and Congress. Here is an explanation for NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2007/06/28/11527747/what-is-executive-privilege-anyway
You may want to write your Representative to let him or her know how you stand on opening an Impeachment Inquiry into President Trump. Many have a contact form on their websites. Here is the text of my letter:
Continue reading “Letter to Congress on Impeachment Inquiry”
Interesting opinion piece in the NY Times on President Trump’s threats, violent language, and behavior and a potential article of impeachment.
There is a historical precedent for making this type of behavior into an article of impeachment. One of the articles of impeachment for President Johnson in 1868 involved similar behavior. Read it and think about it.
I’d like to point out an interesting article on why we should censure the President now. I believe President Trump’s behavior in office certainly make him worthy of impeachment. But for several reasons that may not happen as soon as many of us would like.
Karen Tumulty of the The Washington Post suggests censure is something that should be done immediately. It is worth reading and thinking about.
I have previously written about this book (Reading now: How Democracies Die). Now that I’ve finished, I think it was even better than my earlier opinion.
This bill passed the House and has been sitting in the Senate for about 6 months now.
Seems likely it is just one of those bills that the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (aka Moscow Mitch) just won’t let reach the floor for debate. (For an example see Why does “Moscow Mitch” oppose election security ????).
Continue reading “H.R.8 – Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019”
So far I have watched all the Democratic party debates for the Presidential nomination for 2020. There a quite a few issues discussed but healthcare is a very common one. I think all the candidates have universal healthcare as a goal but differ on how they think the we can get there.
Some present detailed plans and the candidates disagree on which is best and spend a good bit of time in arguing about why my plan is better than your plan. And the questions from the moderators seem to encourage that type of argument.
Continue reading “Democratic debates on healthcare”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GREAT-AUNT
Continue reading “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GREAT-AUNT”
I was reading an article that mentioned How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt and it sounded like an interesting book and very relevant to my earlier post on The End of Democracy.
Continue reading “Reading now: How Democracies Die”
Let’s say a family in Alabama heard President Trump’s false warning concerning the hurricane and decided to evacuate. Say they incurred costs during the evacuation. Can they sue Donald Trump for impersonating a weatherman?
President Trump is now directing at least one Federal Agency to lie to the American public in support of his “truths”. Is this President Trump trying to figure out how far he can go using the powers of his office to mislead the public?
Continue reading “Trump wins, we lose”
President Trump holds many titles The Constitution states that the chief executive “shall be Commander in Chief” (Article 2, Section 2). And many would award him with various other titles including liar-in-chief, Commander in Cheat, and probably a few others.
Is Weatherman-in-chief his latest?
Continue reading “Weatherman-in-chief”
Farmers are losing big in President Trump’s tariff war with China. For example, the Nebraska Farm Bureau estimated farmers will lose almost a billion dollars in revenue this year. And that is just one state.
Yet although President Trump’s support among farmers is slipping, it still remains substantial.