Tag: politics
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Giants Leaving Power–It Would Be About Time
It occurs to me that I now need to add to my most recent blog before posting it. And that is because it occurs to me now–and based upon many things, but particularly very recent news–the world may be about to witness the exits from power of two “giants.” I have in mind, of course,…
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The Mideast Gets More Complicated
Ramadan, Easter and Passover usually come at about the same time and this year is no exception. Ironically, along with this complexity which vexes few people, there is another that may vex many, now or later. To the Israeli political gridlock I discussed in my previous post there has now been added the complication of…
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Israel–our troubled ally–the menace and opportunity
I have to start this out by mentioning “populism,” a word I am getting to despise. I hate hearing it because what is called populism today is not well defined and it can mean too many different things or at least refer to too many shades of opinion. But I’ll mostly put that off for…
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Biden’s Critics
This will be a short, somewhat angry post. It is the result, mostly, of watching the reaction of both media members and political leaders to the President’s visits with the leaders of Israel and Saudi Arabia. I happen to like Joe Biden. I was for him from day one of the campaign and therefore did…
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Leave or change–the filibuster & the electoral college
Compared to my reflection on the Primaries this one will be fairly short. I wish to discuss these two topics because they are much in the news, at least sporadically, and I think the public discussion of them has been over-simplified. Politicians, editorial writers and others just shouting/writing “Dump It” or “Keep It” seems…
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How we got here–the(more or less)midentury primaries
The 1920’s brought serious changes to the society and the world and this included the US Primary system. In the 3 elections of the decade the old, boss-run system produced, for the GOP, candidates, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. For the Dems in was Ohio Gov James Cox, WV millionaire John W…
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Saturday thoughts
It is ironic that I chose this time to start a blog. I meant it to offer an opportunity to share some things I had long considered and maybe some new ones. I had no idea I might wind up starting at the time of a terrible world crisis. Here I am all the same…
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