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As the Supreme Court Abandons America, It’s Not Wrong to Evoke 1933 Nazi Germany and Hitler
Such a conversation may be well past its sell-by date, and even I fell for that argument, but that was before the Supreme Court caved in and enabled an…
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Jim Freeman
Voice of America Is Gone, a Voice Once Listened to from Under a Pillow
Which is somewhat of a personal loss from my point of view, as I moved to the Czech Republic in January of 1993, just four years after it emerged from…
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If Conservative Republicans Want to Survive, They Better Start Conserving Something
There isn’t much of thst going around today in American politics. To conserve means to protect something, especially the environment or resources, from…
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Kim Jong Un Trump Reviews the Troops
The man Orange Man, who never served in the military, stood bravely reviewing the troops whose uniform he never wore, despite the possible pain of those…
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Sen. Padilla Thrown to Floor, and Handcuffed at Kristi Noem Press Event
In an ‘Oh, shit, moment as America edges closer to dictatorship, that’s United States Senator Alex Padilla lying handcuffed on the floor of a government…
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Now Let the Courts, Including the Supreme Court, Try to Enforce Their Rulings
That quote is often paraphrased or attributed in spirit to Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States.
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Jim Freeman
If the Amazon Rainforest Is Declining, Why Is Amazon.com Not Building a New One?
A perfectly honest question, and the brand marketing would be great.
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Whatever Happened to Patronage?
Whatever Happened to Patronage?
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May 2025

Nationalizing Boeing May be Its Best Way Out
It’s not a pretty picture, but the decline of Boeing from Bill Boeing’s leadership is a bastard child born out of too many bad choices.
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Jim Freeman
Hypernormalization Is the New Normal
(Guardian UK) Donald Trump is dismantling government checks and balances in an apparent advance toward a “unitary executive” doctrine that would grant…
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The Danger of Bezos, Musk and Zuck Is Not Their Wealth, It’s Their Separation from the 99% of America That Is Not Them.
I apologize for my absense, but my 90th birthday got in the way, and I am just now reecovered.
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How is “the expanding and holding of territories In Gaza” not occupation?
I don’t get it, am I missing something?
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