Aurora Fredericalis
We are sitting around after dinner, phone rings, its Vera and Bob. “Where was that place we went to see the comet out in the countryside? We are trying to see the aurora.”
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We’re Not Going Back
With the danger from Trump so dire, it is almost beside the point who his opponent is. In fact, Kamala Harris is a good candidate. Here is a quick summary of the case against Trump and for Harris.
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No Longer Post-9/11
Then that moment has ended as well. Now we are living in the post-January 6 era.
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Highlight Fitness for the Office
With Biden, whatever we say will sound to swing voters like “Their candidate is more unfit for office than ours.” With several other possible Democratic nominees, we can say, “Our candidate is fit for office; theirs is not.”
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The Trump Vote: Education or Religion?
Maybe it is not that higher education makes people less likely to vote for Trump; it is just that Evangelical Christians make up a bigger fraction of the population without a degree.
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Help Spread The Word
Get bumper stickers and tee shirts to spread the message to defend democracy by re-electing Joe Biden.
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Christians Are Not Supposed To Believe in the Ten Commandments
I am not talking about the failure of people to follow laws that they say they believe. No, the official doctrine of major conservative Christian sects ignores or dismisses one commandment.
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View from Sandusky Bay, Ohio, North America, Planet Earth
Yes, it’s a poem. And it even rhymes, mostly.
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How Democracies Die: A Book Review
Often countries that succumbed to dictators, including Germany and Italy, did so because mainstream parties elevated an outsider like Hitler or Mussolini who inspired fanatical enthusiasm in a relatively narrow segment of the population.
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