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Rodney Clough
Rodney Clough

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3 days ago

Divided

One voter’s reflection: for some, a superfluous ballot box. In 1954, upon the 9–0 decision in the Supreme Court case in Brown v. Board of Education the “separate but equal” doctrine was ruled unconstitutional and in violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. …

Justice

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Divided
Divided
Justice

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Nov 21

Mirage of the ‘Two State Solution’

A solution, a state, a mirage. Can there be a ‘two state solution’ if one state doesn’t exist? Historically, the derivation of the term, “two state solution,” precedes the Oslo accords of 1993: “The uniqueness of the Palestinian case lies in the fact that its project was interfered with by…

Politics

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Mirage of the ‘Two State Solution’
Mirage of the ‘Two State Solution’
Politics

9 min read


Nov 13

The Talented Mr. Chesebro

October 20, A Trump Chameleon and Sycophant arrives in Court. Former President Donald Trump understands duplicity. It’s a trademark posture for a peddler of brands: develop a charade, a con employing your opponent’s position. You build the edifice, you take on the risk and I come along with my entourage…

Politics

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The Talented Mr. Chesebro
The Talented Mr. Chesebro
Politics

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Nov 12

House Wreckers

This is not about winning; this is about who controls the levers of power. Recently Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times (1), “Much of the reporting on Johnson has, understandably, focused on his role in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Let me say, by the way…

Politics

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House Wreckers
House Wreckers
Politics

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Nov 11

Part and Parcel

The Fourteenth Amendment is being challenged… and misinterpreted. Can you challenge a paper? Even if Trump is ineligible to hold office, is it the determination of the state overseer of elections to withdraw his name from the official ballot? Is it unconstitutional to withdraw his name? Does any court in…

Politics

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Part and Parcel
Part and Parcel
Politics

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Nov 10

The Frailty Behind “The Holdovers”

Alexander Payne’s new movie examines dignity at a New England prep school campus. Not your “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.” Fifty-odd days before Christmas (forty before Hanukkah) and American moviegoers received a gift: “The Holdovers,” opened in a theater near you, October 27. Rarely have I seen a movie that neither, one…

Humanism

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The Frailty Behind “The Holdovers”
The Frailty Behind “The Holdovers”
Humanism

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Oct 31

Suppression

The Israel-Hamas War exhumes America’s penchant for censorship and suspicion. What is missing. And this, we are told, is just the beginning. Instead of playing out a role for which there is neither sufficient evidence nor intelligence to support an acceptable outcome, we have an opportunity to reflect on inequality. …

Politics

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Suppression
Suppression
Politics

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Oct 16

Notes from the Siege

A willfully ignorant chorus was ill prepared to square brutality with resistance. A President attends hurt. October 14 Sarah Silverman has left the Democratic Socialists of America in response to the chorus. This should tell us something: disgust and disappointment with a collective blindness. I recall a painting, The Massacre…

Gaza

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Notes from the Siege
Notes from the Siege
Gaza

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Oct 13

Jingoists

America’s mainstream media coverage of the Hamas Attack of Israel, October 8–10 Jingoistic is an apt term to sum up much of American mainstream media’s early coverage of the Hamas Attack. …

Israel

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Jingoists
Jingoists
Israel

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Oct 10

Mr. Nasty

The Neo-Fascism of Steve Bannon The Republican Party does have an agenda: usurp the impulse to govern and mandate. And the House Republican Caucus does have a Speaker-in-Residence: Steve Bannon. We have a bevy of Supreme Court cases regarding the use of the wires, the air waves, the mail, in…

Politics

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Mr. Nasty
Mr. Nasty
Politics

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Rodney Clough

Rodney Clough

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Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.

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