Tag: politics
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The President Climbs a Mountain
Joe Biden will, I think, never be accused of not trying. He has taken on some of the worst difficulties–covid, the covid-brought about economic mess, a fractious and divided opposition(today’s Republicans), Putin & Ukraine and now the current tragic unfolding events in Gaza and Israel. There is much still unknown and undetermined and ,much we…
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Immigration, cruelty and self-defense–what are the rules and what can be done?
I just became familiar with a new name in journalism. Lydia Polgreen is a columnist for the NYT which she joined about a year ago–so I guess I was behind the Times in not knowing of her previously. That’s not a very good joke but it will be the only one in this column. This…
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Ramaswamy–a “new” Republican Leader(??)
Vivek Ramaswamy is surely the most interesting of the Republican challengers to Donald Trump for the Presidential nomination. Like nearly all the others he was way behind Trump a few weeks ago. I guess he still is, but not quite so “way.” Sometime in July he was at or near a 1% favorability rating among…
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Freidman, Biden, and Netanyahu–pay attention
I think have mentioned before my high regard for NYT columnist T L Freidman and earlier this week he gave us more reason to be grateful for his work. On Tuesday he was invited to the White House for an interview of some candor with the President which he passed along to us via his…
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Biden, Ukraine and the “Allies”
President Biden is facing an especially difficult time in foreign policy at this moment. There are both military and dipomatic difficulties and the usual political dissent from some at home. Also, there are doubts about some of our allies in, particularly Turkey and Hungary, and what they are going to do or refuse to do.…
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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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