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Election Insurrection 0
Farron suggests that election rejection is tantamount to insurrection as he discusses a Pennsylvania Republican who conspired to subvert the 2020 election.
Afterthought:
Methinks that attempting to overturn the results of a legitimate election is about as unAmerican as it gets.
But, apparently, none dare call it treason.
Strict Construction 0
The Rude One rudely demolishes the arguments of those who would pretend that Donald Trump should not be held accountable for insurrection under the 14th Amendment. (Warning: Language, and lots of it.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
The Privatization Scam, Medicare Disadvantage Dept. 0
Thom and Congressman Mark Pocan responds to a caller’s question about “Medigap” coverage. Thom also discusses the racist origins of the “Medigap” itself.
Vaccine Nation 0
Unfortunately, there is no vaccine against stupid.
All the News that Fits 0
In the midst of a longer post about the who-shot-john over Green Day’s having the unmitigated gall to express a political opinion, Vixen Strangely states an obvious truth–one which, like many obvious truths, is too seldom remarked on–and states it very well.
Fox News talking heads are not political analysts. They are propagandists.
The Ultimate Election? Reprise 0
Dick Polman lists three reasons to be (cautiously) optimistic about this year’s presidential election. Here’s one (emphasis in the original):
Follow the link for the others.
Dodging Deception on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Evans suggests that three simple questions can help us protect ourselves against deceivers on the Disinformation Superhighway (emphasis in the original).
- Who said it? (For any piece of data or information we are considering.) Many times the person conveying the information we are considering is more important (for our decision) than the information itself.
- What is the source of their information? Like the person conveying the information, the source of that information may be more important than the information itself.
- Do they have a personal stake in the information they are conveying? Will they get rich or gain power or importance by getting you to believe it?
Follow the link to read a real-life application of his reasoning.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron discusses a Fox News reporter who called out a right-wing lie. (Yeah, I know, but stranger things have happened.)
The Ultimate Election? 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is not sanguine. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” is polite to his child.
When they (police–ed.) arrived, a man said he was handling his gun when it accidentally went off.
His son was struck by the bullet and taken to an the hospital with serious injuries.
One more time, “accidentally” and “negligently” do not mean the same thing.