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Rodney Clough
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Critical Thinking is ‘Elitist’

Truth be damned. Pinch me: it’s 2023 not 2015. On March 23, David French, opinion writer for the New York Times, was interviewed for the Ezra Klein Podcast. Following are some excerpts from his interview. …what we really see is how imperfect a vehicle the law is to correct a…

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Critical Thinking is ‘Elitist’
Critical Thinking is ‘Elitist’

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May 31

Fake Congress

If you can’t manage, pretend to manage. Friday’s late night deal to avoid default pits the future against the present, which is why — for now — McCarthy prevailed: the Republican Party owns the present. ‘The Republican Party is the party of the present. The Party creates the chaos, grabs…

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Fake Congress
Fake Congress
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May 4

The Fox Purge

Curated for a thirty-second attention span. With Tucker Carlson out of the way, Fox can resume business as usual: shift the klieg lights from a personality cable host to an audience who will pay repeatedly to see and hear their grievance(s). Hate-news for the dispossessed; a cynical breach of the public trust for monetizing disaffection. There’s money to be made. So let’s do this white ‘thingy.’ May 4

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The Fox Purge
The Fox Purge
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Apr 19

Democracy for Sale

Something died in Wilmington yesterday. Now “we” get it: Trump isn’t the first former President to be indicted, he is the first former President to be indicted on criminal charges… that qualifier became obvious today on the steps of the Wilmington Delaware Federal Courthouse: Dominion settled and withdrew their civil…

Justice

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Democracy for Sale
Democracy for Sale
Justice

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Apr 7

Atonement

History doesn’t repeat itself; people drift backwards. April 3–6 There were few political lessons learned this week. There were no ‘aha moments.’ Rather one could argue that this week’s political surprises were about culture, not power; disturbance, not democracy; tradition not repression. Anything but the dream of transformation. …

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Atonement
Atonement
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Apr 6

Episode 11

Clouds of Doubt Good evening and welcome to Episode 11, The Trials of Lindsey Graham, Water Carrier (*). Tonight’s episode, “Clouds of Doubt,” finds our hero, the Senior Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, bereft as his friend and golfing buddy, the former President is facing criminal charges for election fraud and conspiracy…

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Episode 11 
Clouds of Doubt
Episode 11 
Clouds of Doubt
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Apr 1

Citizen Trump

A political mis-course is about to go viral. “There will be no handcuffs.” -attributed to the legal defense team of Donald J. Trump, March 30, the day a New York State Grand Jury announced that it would indict Donald Trump. March 30 Now…now, we know who we are defending. Now…

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Citizen Trump
Citizen Trump
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Mar 29

March 27, Nashville

A reflective moment in Nashville. Why are you here? Do you enjoy doing this? Why do you keep doing this? -survivor of Highland Park Illinois mass shooting who was visiting Nashville and attended a press briefing at Covenant Elementary School, March 27 America is losing its youth. America is neglecting…

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March 27, Nashville
March 27, Nashville
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Mar 28

Wild Women

What Carmen, Holly and Fern share. Holding hands driving a convertible over the rim of the Grand Canyon for “wild women” is not the ‘way to go.’ (1) Rather, getting stabbed and dying in your lover’s arms, finding your cat, and returning ‘home’ to reclaim your odyssey provide better story…

Women

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Wild Women
Wild Women
Women

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Mar 26

Damnatio Memoriae

The Republican Party will go to any length to protect Trump from criminal prosecution. The question, no one seems to ask convincingly, is “why?” If Trump goes down, what happens to the Republican Party? Like a lamprey eel which sucks the blood out of its victims while strangling them, Trump’s…

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Damnatio Memoriae
Damnatio Memoriae
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Rodney Clough

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