Showing posts with label minority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minority. Show all posts
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Various campaign links

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Election Day is three days away, or less if I'm slow posting this. 538 is predicting nearly 90% chance that Biden will win. I hope that...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Details and loose ends of the covid disaster

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This is a mishmash of links related to covid-19. Like this one, zerohedge declare that Bill Gates planned this hoax. The virus is real, but...
Friday, December 27, 2019

November - December links

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I wrote more posts in November than in any other month in the past year. The collection of links aside from the Ukraine scandal are paltry. ...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Short: Headline of the times

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Trump pinatas becoming hot items in Albuquerque, Santa Fe -- article here . Image: eonline.com
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Analysis of the Cincinnati shooting video

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Earlier this month, a security officer for the University of Cincinnati shot and killed an unarmed driver during a traffic stop. The officer...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

My pocket analysis of the same-sex marriage ruling

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Ok, I broke down and read much of the Supreme Court's same sex marriage ruling. We have conservatives calling the majority opinion jumbl...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Surviving the same-sex marriage decision

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As I wrote often, Rod Dreher , a religious/cultural blogger, regularly moaned about the growing support for same-sex marriage. His complaint...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

A vignette in America's racist history

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Sadly, I don't know enough of the history of my own country. That's part of the reason I'm only now realizing the extent of raci...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The fall of the Confederate flag

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I wish I could say that this was a victory for civility, but it's not. People like Nikki Haley , Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell aren...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Major black writer absolves the killer of Mike Brown

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Ta-Nehishi Coates, perhaps the pre-eminent black columnist in the US, writes very clearly that Darren Wilson, who shot Mike Brown in Fergus...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The strange struggle between NYC cops and mayor

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I'm having a very hard time understanding the disagreement between the New York City cops and the mayor. Why are the cops so incredibly ...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

My bias regarding police

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I tend to be biased toward believing a police officer's account in a controversy. However that doesn't mean my bias is rigid--I abso...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Immigration reform is a massive hot potato

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How much immigration reform have we had in the last 30 years? Aside from the amnesty in 1986, we haven't had much. And since then, we...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thoughts on the Ferguson shooting: No indictment

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I agree with the grand jury's decision not to indict the policeman who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. For what it's worth, that...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

The high stakes of culture: Mississippi

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I continue to see the effects of culture almost everywhere. I listen for cultural differences, and the effect of culture on values and the ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Oh, the humanity in Ferguson, Missouri

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Real life is always more complicated than it seems. Always. Take the first impressions of the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. At first, it...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

No emergency money without concessions

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It makes plenty of sense to me that the GOP, with their strength in the House and Senate, should attach some strings to the money for the im...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Another bizarro Fox News world

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Here's a Fox News opinion piece where they beat up Obama for not doing more for immigrants using executive means. Here's one where...