Republican leaders are diverting voters away from the January 6 hearings by appealing to economic issues, which the Bible warns against — In The Gospel According to St. Matthew (KJV) Chapter 4:1–11, after his Tvilah purification by Jon the Baptist, Yeshua (Jesus) was led into the wilderness where the devil tried to tempt him away from God by enticing him to use divine powers for earthly gain. Specifically, Jesus was tempted by…

Women* are factories for future consumers, workers, and taxpayers, and abortions are lowering their productivity — Republicans pander in more ways than one It is common knowledge that the Republican Party’s motivation to repeal Row v. Wade and thereby take away the reproduction rights of women is to appease their fundamentalist Christian base. What is less well known is the concern economists and wealthy capitalists express regarding current low birth rates in developed…

As stated by our Founding Fathers, that is — The Supreme Court’s willingness to strike down Roe v Wade is alarming. It is but one effect of the rise of Christian nationalism in the Republican Party. Keep in mind that many of the insurrectionists at the US Capitol Building on January 6 were carrying Christian signs, slogans, and symbols…

Officials say California is having an extreme drought, yet all the lawns are green and water is flowing freely from every spigot — There is a major disconnect between what officials report about California’s current drought in contrast with the reality on the ground. From officials, we are told that nearly the entire state is suffering severe to extreme drought conditions, while on the ground the lawn sprinklers are blasting away day and…

It rewards fossil fuel use, takes resources needed for renewables, and enables price gouging by the worst polluters on earth — While California is set to offer $400 rebates per vehicle for the consumption of the fossil fuels that contribute to global warming, I am trying with little success to trade in my gasoline-powered vehicle for an electric car. I called a local dealer to discuss the sale and was told…

The billionaire class should think twice before creating a space tourism industry that is a global warming nightmare. — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is one of three notorious private space programs that include Elon Musk’s Space-X, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The goal of all three is to add hundreds and eventually thousands of extra flights per year and make suborbital spaceflights a popular vacation destination.

The enemies of our enemy are not necessarily our friends — Regarding Never Trumpers and other so called Reasonable Republicans. During the run up to the 2020 presidential election, Democrats and others were so desperate to rid our nation of the Trump menace that they welcomed nearly any and all of his enemies into their efforts. …

The proliferation of drive-thru burger joints proves that Americans don’t care about the global warming crisis. — Like many Boomers, I grew up watching Popeye the Sailor cartoons. One of the endearing characters was Popeye’s friend J. Wellington Wimpy, who presented himself as an elite intellectual, but really he was a lazy gluttonous tramp. Wimpy’s schtick was to scam the other characters into buying him his favorite…

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and most Americans still don’t know why it happened — Introduction World War II and its immediate aftermath marked a low point in the moral self-perception of many Westerners. Once the carnage of WWII was fully realized, many suffered a profound disenchantment with the West, which is a sentiment that persists for many to this day.