The origins of the present conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis go back for centuries. This article from History.com may shed some light on the background of this never-ending territorial conflict. All credit for the following information is given to History.com, and you can find the full article at this link: https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/history-of-israel#section_1 Early History …
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READ AND WEEP
This article pretty well covers the waterfront. It was written by Heather Cox Richardson as part of her Substack, Letters from an American. I give full credit to Heather Cox Richardson and am copying her full article below. If you are interested in subscribing to her amazing Substack go to https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com. It is well worth …
How Short is Our Court?
The unfortunate decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade is totally destructive to this country. It is a decision made by a formerly highly respected group of people, and is one that has undermined and destroyed that respect. By making the right to an abortion a decision to be made by individual …
Let’s Move On
For Heaven’s sake – why in the world should there be any discussion about the eligibility of Donald Trump to run for the Presidency of the United States? There is something so wrong with all of our systems that would even allow a man of his background to be considered as the person to represent …
He Lies Like a Rug
Here’s a little insight into Trump’s family history as seen in the article The Trump Family’s Immigrant Story by Natasha Frost on History.com. It’s interesting that Trump despises immigrants and considers them all to be crooks, criminals and despicable people when he comes directly from immigrants: “Trump is the son, and grandson, of immigrants: German …
Kicking the Can
The present Supreme Court has managed to undermine universal confidence in the Supreme Court for the first time in American history. It was clear from the beginning when the first thing that Trump did as President was to appoint as many members to the Supreme Court as he could get. Having stopped Obama from even …
Supreme Court Op-Ed by Tom P. Taft
This is a letter regarding the current state of the Supreme Court recently received and well worthy of being widely read and widely distributed. Please help to do so. See below: Less Like a “Supreme” Court and More Like a Blatantly Political Court I grew up in a family that honored the law and revered the …
Uptown, Downtown, All Around Town
The new Tolling Program is one of the most ill-conceived ideas created by a bunch of people running this city further and further into the ground. For instance, on the East Side, most of the medical offices and hospitals are in the 60s up to the 80s. If a person living below 60th needs to go …
Clamshell Generation
The computer and the telephone have alienated an entire generation. It is impossible to look at America today without wondering what has caused this tremendous division in the country. And what is the division? It seems as though a generation of people have grown up without having any real connection to the society in which …
Beware! The Tiger Is at the Gate
Here we are, in exactly the same situation that the United States was in just before World War II. Roosevelt was trying to keep the war “over there” by trying to support Britain and France in the fight against Hitler. Today it is even worse. As dangerous as that was, we were faced with an …