Monday, March 10, 2025

West Virginia's appalling & life-threatening secondary roads: The job-creation road not taken.

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Above: This is a secondary road in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is a mess. Driving over it will make your teeth chatter like an old ty...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Are Americans too intellectually lazy for democracy? Warnings from Studebaker, Schumacher, and Sotomayor.

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Above: WPA poster. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress . Democracy requires critical thinking and intellectual curiosity Elon Musk...
Friday, February 7, 2025

77 million Americans voted to send 480,000 veterans to the unemployment line

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Above: When I tried to share--with Musk's Twitter / X followers--the fact that many veterans would become unemployed due to the purge b...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

... and then they came for me

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Above: A scene from a WPA theatre performance of It Can't Happen Here . Photo from the National Archives . Regret First they came for t...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

FDR explained how the Democratic Party would destroy itself, but the Democratic Party--and its voters--refused to listen. And now our freedoms of speech and liberty are at extreme risk.

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Above: Part of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. The inscription warns against oligarchy. Photo by Carol M. Highsmi...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

MAGA is an exercise in futility, because it fails to confront the primary source of its problems - the investor class

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Above: "Back of the Yards," oil on canvas, by Mitchell Siporin, WPA, 1938. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Los Angeles wildfires and our self-destructive New Deal oblivion

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Above: CCC men battling a wildfire. From the CCC brochure, Forests Protected by the CCC (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, ...