Jose: Do you think Trump might have a point when he says the election is rigged? I also received this email about the media elite and the corporations pulling the strings: It’s a big club for a select few: Only 6 Corporations: 1. GE (owns Comcast, NBC, Universal Pictures, Focus Features)2. Newscorp (owns Fox, Wall […]
Politics is politics, and to paraphrase the remark misattributed to Bismarck, “politics are like making sausages, not a pretty sight.” Trump, bombastic and offensive to some, is using populism and taking advantage of the disaffection and anger of American voters to get elected president. He did not become a successful businessman from idiocy and pomposity,
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My mother and I recently had a difference of opinion regarding Pope Francis. I said that he was naive and certainly not of the caliber of his two previous distinguished predecessors, the two towers of intellect: John Paul II, canonized as Saint John Paul the Great by his brilliant successor, Benedict XVI. She said Pope
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments were totally inappropriate for her position as Supreme Court judge. Justice Ginsburg should no longer serve as an Associate Justice as she has forfeited her impartiality in future decisions, particularly, if Donald Trump is elected president. Ginsburg stated on reflection that her comments were “ill advised.” By whom? Is this
It is bad enough for Supreme Court Justices to throw political shibboleths in private conversations or even in speeches on the lecture circuit, but it is even more egregious when they show their political bias openly in public statements to the sensationalist media and immerse themselves in disgraceful political controversies. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has
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Anyone who is not a liberal at 20 years of age has no heart,while anyone who is still a liberal at 40 has no head.— Winston Churchill (1874-1965) quoted inThe Hartford Courant, a Connecticut newspaper. Two recent surveys are quite alarming, but we should not be surprised that the mainstream media have promulgated them with
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