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Courts Need to Slap Down SLAPP Suits Like the One Targeting Greenpeace

       We hope this letter finds you well. We wish to express our sincere gratitude for your support and coverage of the John Lewis Good Trouble Candlelight Memorial, held on July 17, 2024. Your presence and online promotion in the Westside Gazette underscored the importance of community unity in honoring the values exemplified by our fraternity brother, John Lewis.

Go Green, Recycle Old People: The Biden Debacle

      There is still a difference between white water and colored water!

       With their remarkable foresight, the founding fathers anticipated the potential rise of a king with absolve powers. Their wisdom  guides us today, reminding us that uneducated people with unlimited power within democracy could make poor choices. But the voters hold the power to Checkmate a wanna-be king! In chess, the goal is to capture the opponent’s king!

   The Democrats have changed the candidate for the nomination of the president in 2024, and it is a woman of color who will take over the campaign. “People in your life will tell you, though; it’s not your time. It’s not your turn. Nobody like you has done it before. Don’t you ever listen to that, I like to say, I eat no for breakfast,” says Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

   When I was a little girl, I was nourished with healthy food, clean drinking water, safe housing, access to education, adequate medical care, and the loving support of family and friends. As a result, I became an idealist, a perpetual optimist, a lover of people, and a dreamer. It seemed that the world was a magical place where anything was possible. 

   Toynbee contended that in the atomic age, humanity would have to choose between political unification and mass-suicide. He believed the chief obstacle to political unification was a long-standing destructive habit of the West which he referred to as the habit of “divisive feeling” to which we tended to easily succumb as opposed to reaching for our more recently adopted habit of “world-mindedness.”  The good news, he said, was that just as new habits could be adopted, old ones could also be modified or abandoned. He stressed that as a general rule we humans would opt to abandon even our most deeply rooted habits once it became clear that clinging to them would spell disaster. 

      The thousands of red MAGA hat wearers at a Donald Trump rally symbolize a vote for Trump and personify the words of Benjamin Franklin.

The Unspoken