Here.
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Dilbert
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The highlight of my summer is going to be watching John Podhoretz get right with Donald. I can't wait. By the way, I have been saying in this blog for many years that free trade has been a disaster for this country. Donald Trump understood what I understood, which is why he is going to be our next president. We are sick to death of fat cats selling out their country for a few dollars.
Politics
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Academia
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Aerial Boundaries (1984). Michael Hedges is proof, or at least probative evidence, that God exists and wants us to be happy.
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To the Editor:
The festering anger I have felt throughout this Republican campaign season has now boiled over. I am in full outrage mode. This is not the first time Donald Trump’s comments have sparked controversy, nor, sadly, will it be the last.
But calling for women to be “punished” for exercising our right to make our own reproductive decisions highlights exactly what I have found so troubling about the discourse on the Republican side (and it is not just Mr. Trump): men deciding women’s issues, as if we are just too weak to stand up for ourselves.
As if Donald Trump or any of the rest of them should have any say in this matter.
JANE CARLIN
Stamford, Conn.
Note from KBJ: The fetus could not be reached for comment.
Note 2 from KBJ: I like the writer's logic. Guns are a men's issue, so women should have no say in the matter. War and peace are men's issues, so women should have no say in the matter. Competition is a men's issue, so women should have no say in economic matters. Has it occurred to the letter writer that half the babies aborted are female? Has it occurred to her that men can be concerned about protecting the vulnerable?
From Today’s New York Times
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This man is delusional. So what if the excitable Ann Coulter is having second thoughts about Donald Trump. This is the woman who fawned over Chris Christie. Remember? She is as flighty as Andrew Sullivan, who went from George W. Bush to John Kerry in a heartbeat. Donald Trump's support comes from the people, not from pundits. By the way, the gossip of the day is that Trump made a gaffe about abortion. Three comments. First, he corrected himself immediately. Second, as president, he will be making no decisions about abortion. Third, he drew Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders out. Trump can now hit them hard on abortion. Both of them support partial-birth abortion, which is a polite name for infanticide. (That's baby-killing for those of you in Rio Linda.) Don't ever forget that Donald Trump is five steps ahead of everyone else. He is playing chess while others are playing checkers.
Addendum: For what it's worth, Coulter is still a Trump supporter. Here is her column of this date.
Politics, Part 2
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Here.
Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog
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Here.
Dilbert
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Common sense prevails.
Torture
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Cosmic Thing (1989).
The B-52’s, “Dry County” (1989)
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