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America’s Chicken Come Home to Roost

     America’s democracy is once again under siege and as divided as during the Civil War. Having been able to continually discriminate against Black people and to deny them their inalienable rights, Republicans and white supremacists were content with America’s democracy. Now the threat of losing their political power has turned them against Democracy. As the idiom says, evil past deeds will cause Chickens to Come Home to Roost.” In other words, this Nation just may reap what it sowed. […]

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Is Trump’s violent dishonesty inexorable?

     A year ago, when I examined the lessons of hatred and political violence in the US, I made note of the ugly role dehumanization and hate played in the alt-right’s support of Donald Trump. I was inspired, in part, by thinking about what Matthew Shepard would have experienced had he lived to see the full-force of Trumpism. But I was also unable to ignore the violent plots which received Trump’s full blessings. […]

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Military suicide: One more reason to abolish war

       The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on programs to stem this crisis, the suicide rate for active-duty U.S. troops rose to 28.7 per 100,000 during 2020, up from 26.3 per 100,000 the previous year. […]

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“TWO CORINTHIANS”

     Deranged Donald Trump, who is clearly severely mentally ill, said the following about himself on September 30, 2021, in an interview with Gene Bailey on The Victory Channel: “So nobody has done more for Christianity, or for Evangelicals, or for religion itself than I have”, said the mad king. […]