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Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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    Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog

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    Mar 20
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    Dilbert

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    Mar 20
  • In for the Kill! (1974).

    Budgie, “Zoom Club” (1974)

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    Mar 20
  • Here is Ann Coulter’s latest column.

    “Approved Minorities”

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    Mar 20
  • Today is the first day of spring in my hemisphere. It's also the occasion for a supermoon.

    Equinox

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    Mar 20
  • Here’s a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fellow Democrats regarding her position on impeachment: President Trump may be not just the worst president in the history of this country, but the worst president anyone in U.S. history ever imagined.

    Nevertheless, the people who put him in office are our fellow Americans. They are still here, they still vote, and they still like Trump. Impeaching Trump would pretty much guarantee they would vote for a telephone pole rather than a Democrat in 2020. Democrats should be reaching out to these voters on whatever wavelength they think might work because outvoting them in 2020 just might not.

    Sherry Gulmon, Palo Alto

    Trump Derangement Syndrome, from Today’s San Francisco Chronicle

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    Mar 20
  • George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2019

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    Presidential Tweet

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    Mar 20
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    Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog

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    Mar 19
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    Dilbert

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    Mar 19
  • To the editor:

    Fifty people are dead at the hands of a terrorist in New Zealand, and what have we learned? Words do indeed matter.

    While expressing condolences, President Trump once again failed to address the underlying cause of the violence. The largest proportion of these kinds of killings are committed by white nationalists, not Muslims and immigrants. Yet the president insisted Friday that white nationalism is not a rising threat, despite the report that the suspected gunman behind the two mosque shootings wrote in a manifesto that he supported Trump “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”

    The question remains: Why won’t Trump forcefully denounce white supremacy?

    While Trump may not be the direct cause of what happened, his anti-immigrant rhetoric incites division and fear. This in turn enables, emboldens and empowers hatred—a hatred that inevitably leads to violence. Trump is at least in part responsible.

    Moreover, historians will write that those who refuse to stand up and hold Trump accountable for his bigoted rhetoric, including many Republicans in Congress, are complicit.

    Richard Cherwitz, Austin, Texas

    The writer is a professor of rhetoric at the University of Texas.

    Note from KBJ: Shorter Cherwitz: "President Trump didn't say exactly what I wanted him to say, so he's a white supremacist."

    Trump Derangement Syndrome, from Today’s Los Angeles Times

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    Mar 19
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