I am incredibly grateful for the faith and confidence you have placed in me and the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO). Your voices have been heard, and our mission advances because of your support. Reflecting on our accomplishments over the last six years, I’d like to highlight a few of the notable successes that have propelled us forward.
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America has long espoused a selective and often contradictory morality. It is crucial for voters to scrutinize the immorality within President-elect Trump’s agenda, including Project 2025. By understanding the relationship between morality, immorality, and consequentialism—a philosophy that evaluates actions based on their outcomes—voters can better assess whether policies serve the greater good.
Supposedly, the acronym comes from Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency, the Doge. Whatever. When Heather Cox Richardson says the name of the pending Musk/Ramaswamy agency, she pronounces it doggy. She’s authoritative enough for me.
As Christian nationalism, the political right and Trump-mania seem to tighten their grip on the country, maybe now is the time for me to take a deep dig into the complex preciousness of . . . life itself.
The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza has stirred up a considerable backlash. Dismissing the charges as “absurd and false,” Netanyahu announced that Israel would “not recognize the validity” of the ICC’s action. U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the arrest warrants as “outrageous,” while the French government, after agreeing to support them, reversed its stance.
But I am not talking about the victorious WW2 Allied forces and the cumulative actions up to May 14, 1948 that resulted in the forcible re-establishment of the state of Israel; I speak now of the Romans, in the year 135 CE, when they evicted the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland of Judea and bequeathed the newly designated land of Palestine Syria to the Jew’s even-then-arch enemy, a people known as the Philistines.
If you want to play the game of politics, here’s step one: Reduce everything to a linear political viewpoint: “right” or “left.” No matter how deep and large and complex that viewpoint is, politicize it, turn it into something that’s either right or wrong. It’s all about winning or losing.
A woman who made a fortune in wrestling will take down education and chokehold funds for public schools. She will put curriculums in a headlock and public education programs will be forced to tap out!
People often invoke examples of great heroes and figures for strength in difficult times. Anne Frank once beautifully remarked, “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Likewise, Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” These words inspire us to persist in the face of adversity.
America, a nation with a history of racism, is home to a staggering number of people living below the poverty level. The discriminatory tactics and policies of this country are more overt and deliberate towards Black people and others of color. However, the incoming government’s Project 2025 will target poor white people harshly as well. This stark reality raises a crucial question: why does the government perpetuate the injustice of poverty’s vicious white lie? It’s time to inspire change, debunk this vicious lie, and expose the immorality of Project 2025.