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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/481260-manchin-calls-for-bipartisan-censure-of-trump
Joe Manchin is on a precarious seat in West Virginia, yet he has the political courage to call for censure of Trump.
Continue reading “A red state Senator calls for censure of the president.”
Limbaugh reveals cancer diagnosis
Rush Limbaugh, voice of the modern conservative resurgence for 30 years announced he has advanced lung cancer.
This ad produced and paid for a by a conservative Republican group is a taste of what these lying, spineless Republican Senators are in store for the next time they have to face the voters.
The Democrats proved their case. But the “so what’s it to ya” defense worked.
Continue reading “Lamar Alexander says what the rest of the GOP knows.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-prepares-expand-u-183611294.html
Civilians bear the brunt of land mine use, particularly after the shooting stops.
Continue reading “Land mines are back in play…why?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2015/02/28/what-is-money-and-how-is-it-created/#107356ec7df4
The question in the title is one that comes up from time to time here in the Forum. I was delighted recently to discover this discussion of it by my current favorite economist, Steve Keen, and I share it to substantiate my observation — often wrongly rebuked — that banks create money by making loans. But there is much more to the piece than that.
Myth of criminal use of machiune guns
This is a pet peeve of mine, and it’s good to see it getting some ink. Since 1934, there have been only two murders using machine guns, one by a policeman and one by a policeman’s wife using. one he left unlocked in his car.
Yet every criminal we see on TV today is using a full automatic variant of an AR, A4 or AK. I really believe it is the proliferation of such weapons on TV and in movies that has led to increased use of semi-auto AR’s by nutcases.
And for an amazingly low price.
Actually, I think it is good to let him in, Democrats shouldn’t discriminate against billionaires. If I were one of the candidates debating him, I would place a Big Gulp on the lectern and not say anything about it.
Not knowing anything about Ukrainian law, I have no idea what the significance of Shokin’s complaint might be. Maybe we should give him a passport and let him testify in our impeachment trial, should the Senate swing that way.
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