The Pew Research Center has a new report showing that the U.S. is falling far behind in refugee resettlements. With President Trump setting a new ceiling on refugee resettlements for the coming year at 45,000 the U.S. fall behind its usually number of resettlements. This is all happening in the midst of the worst refugee […]
It’s been almost a month since the massacre in Las Vegas and my impression has been that the story has disappeared from the public’s consciousness. Perhaps its because no clear motive has been established for the attack? Another possibility is that maybe we Americans are so immune to these periodic spasms of extreme violence that […]
What would it take for Trump’s base to abandon him? With the parade of daily outrages that accompany the Trump Presidency (see this running list from Mother Jones to keep up) one has to wonder, how can anyone support this? It seems that no matter the volume of stupid and cruel things he does and says […]
Peter Frase’s book is a one I wish I could have wrote. It is a piece of “social science fiction” that makes many provocative points, is direct and clear, and only 150 pages! All excellent things in my opinion. Even the first sentence of the book is great – “Two specters are haunting Earth in […]
Whenever the topic of gun control comes up (most heavily in the wake of a far too common mass shooting) a familiar response from the anti-gun control side is some version of “you can’t legislate evil.” The assumption here is no amount of gun control is going to stop an evil person from committing an […]
Like some horrible broken record the response in the United States after a mass shooting follows a typical pattern: thought and prayers are offered by all, we are told to not politicize the tragedy by bringing up the topic of gun control, deflections away from gun control ensue (focus on mental health, gun control wouldn’t […]
Donald Trump can be hard to figure out. Because of his newness to politics and his seemingly erratic behavior it’s difficult to understand sometimes what motivates him (assuming he has motivations aside from just reacting to various stimuli like a human goldfish). To clear things up a bit I have surveyed the various attempts to […]
