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It’s Friday, the 13th, always a good time to reflect.
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Jim Freeman
How Come ‘Fair and Balanced’ Persists in an Unfair and Imbalanced Political Climate?
Thomas Jefferson said, “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should…
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Jim Freeman
Men’s Professional Golf Has Become a Laughingstock
The 2024 Tour Championship, a hard-to-watch, slurping up of money that capped off the 2024 PGA season proves my point.
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Jim Freeman

August 2024

The American Presidency, a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
Politics is not supposed to be a Monopoly Game, fighting over Boardwalk and Ventnor Avenue.
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Jim Freeman
With the Largest, Most Expensive Military in the World, America Can’t Produce the Weapons It Needs for the Future.
The congressionally approved military budget for 2025 amounts to $883.7 billion dollars, or 53% of all discretionary spending. One can go nuts trying to…
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Jim Freeman
Elon’s X Ownership Has Become a Threat to Society, the UK Its Latest Victim
Freedom of speech does not necessarily include freedom of reach, a complaint I have often made concerning corporate vs individual access to bullshit, as…
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Jim Freeman
My Hopes for Kamala, Tim and the Democratic Party
My Republican self is currently seated at the keyboard.
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Jim Freeman
Has Elon Musk Shouted “Fire!” in a Theater?
It’s not the only definition by far, but the support of ‘free speech’ in America has always, generally, been understood to include practically…
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Jim Freeman

July 2024

Congress No Longer Functions, Since the Crazies Have Taken Over
Back in the day, liberals once had conservative values—and conservatives returned the favor by supporting certain useful liberal legislation.
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Jim Freeman
Taking America’s Financial Temperature
Fortunately, I’ve used a rectal thermometer because the usual under-the-tongue model is affected by too much open-mouthed jabbering.
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Jim Freeman
“I Am Not a Member of Any Organized Party. I Am a Democrat.” --Will Rogers, writer and humorist
Those prescient words were spoken nearly a hundred years ago, by America’s cowboy humorist, and still ring true all these decades later.
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Jim Freeman
A Word about the Precariat, a Group I Had Not Defined as Me, Although I’m Quite Obviously a Member
Some things creep up as you get old, and being among the precariat was a pleasure I would just as well have avoided.
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Jim Freeman
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