“I don’t know who you are and I don’t know why you like this guy (Trump). I think what you like about him; he appears to be strong and the rest of us are weak… That’s what he’s selling…Here’s what you’re buying…He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for… He’s the ISIL man of the year.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on CNN 2015
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According to the Bible, prophets served as emissaries between the people and God. Scriptures teach us that God speaks through life experiences we encounter. They also speak of how God spoke directly with Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and countless others. Scriptures revealed that these people heard God’s voice because they had pure hearts.
As Miami’s waterfront transforms into an exclusive playground for billionaires, many millionaires are migrating north to Fort Lauderdale, drawn by its luxury real estate, growing economy, and vibrant cultural scene. Over 2,500 millionaires now call Fort Lauderdale home, creating a unique opportunity: What if these wealthy individuals turned their attention to the city’s historically underserved neighborhoods?
In just two weeks, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their minions have managed to alienate, disrupt, disparage, and defy Americans and foreign friends alike. They have openly mocked Congress, the Constitution, the rule of law, and the virtues of diplomacy, all for self-serving ends. Here are five cases that summarize what they have done so far, why they are so dangerous, and why resistance is necessary.
Amidst our evolving climate realities, many Americans are feeling the financial pinch of the climate crisis in insurance costs. Amy Bach, the Executive Director of United Policyholders, a nonprofit founded to help insurance consumers, calls it “the price tag of climate change.”
“Vietnam Syndrome” hasn’t gone away! It resulted in the elimination of the draft and ultimately morphed into “Iraq Syndrome” – so it seems – and even though those lost, horrific wars are now nothing but history, the next American war is ever-looming (against Canada? . . . against Greenland?). And yet, good God, the military is having a hard time recruiting a sufficient amount of patriotic cannon fodder.
The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden administration―illustrates the fact that Americans have sharply different opinions about their relationship to other nations.
If Trump and Musk truly cared about this country, they’d roll out their policies with consideration for the impacts of their actions. From hiring freezes to federal employee layoffs to funding seizes to gaining access to sensitive data to tariff trade wars to shuttering public health websites, the wrecking ball approach has been endangering hundreds of millions of people.
Newspaper headlines will tell you that Canada is in a “Trade War” with the U.S. I hate framing things that are not war as war. The rhetoric of war normalizes it and we absolutely don’t need any more of that. We’re in a trade dispute. Canada was at war with the U.S. during the 1812 war, since then, we’ve been in a state of economic integration. We exist as national besties, in a state of cozy-peace. Perhaps too cozy.
The fable “The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs” again, only slightly raised taxpayers’ concerns about the dreaded fact that the Federal Budget is a looming crisis. Simply put, for the third time, the Goose is dead! America’s Federal Budget isn’t just struggling for revenue; it’s on life support. It’s barely being kept alive by a transfusion of perpetual budget increases. This is not a situation we can afford to ignore. Though it is painful, the time to act is now.