Posts by libresist
Summer Reflections
I haven’t been writing about politics lately. There is a reason for that. It is because, frankly, I’m having trouble finding inspiration among the hundreds of presidential candidates, the millions of crimes the Orange boss man commits on a regular basis, the lengthy and tragic coverage of the big winds and rains pounding eastern lands,…
Read MoreLou Dobbs Goes Ballistic
From Huffpost: Lou Dobbs Just Went Full Propaganda On His Show And Trump Is Already Quoting It Choose your words carefully. How often do you use the word “Hate” when you don’t really feel the powerful emotion of true hate. I try to never use that word unless I really mean it. I am a…
Read MoreOff With His Head
“Off with his head!” said the King of Dark Hearts. “Off with President Xi Jinping’s head!” “Off with China’s head!” “Off with Fed Chairman Powell’s head!” Said the King of Magaland
Read More“No Lives Matter”
David Seidenberg of the Times Of Israel has a powerful new blog-entry about Trump. “Appalled at the loss of life on the border?” he asks. Don’t be. “Trump bragged that he could commit murder in broad daylight and win; we always knew he was this person” Seidenberg is also the creator of the above cartoon.
Read MoreIF NOT NOW, WHEN? IF NOT GOING BIG, WHAT THEN?
Between the calendar dates of July 20 and August 8 of this year (referred to as “the three weeks of mourning”) which correspond (this year) to the Hebrew calendar dates of 17 Tammuz and 9 Av (Tisha b’Av) have a special meaning in the history of the Jewish People. In 70 C.E. imperial Rome breached…
Read MoreAbolish The Second Amendment!
Editor’s Note: Again, we have had senseless mass shootings. Again, the GOP has prevented any real reform of gun control laws. It seemed fitting, therefore, to rerun the following article by Michael E. Berumen. This appeared back in April of 2018. Alas, so little has changed. By Michael E. Berumen For some years…
Read MoreI Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
Editor’s Note: Because you can’t just have politics all the time… Rock: Its Origins, Nature, and Value By Michael Edward Berumen Rock ‘n’ Roll has many fathers and mothers and a greater number of opinions about who started it all. So naturally, I begin with my observations on its origins. One comes across many…
Read MoreHey Kamala you lost me
By Dave McElhaney Last year during the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Mark Zuckerberg dodged questions for 10 hours. This included the famous catch phrase after Utah’s senator Hatch asked him, “How do you sustain a business model when Facebook is free?” “Senator we run adds,” said Zuckerberg smirking. But it was Kamala Harris who did the best job of…
Read MoreA Response to Howard Jacobson
by Rabbi Charles Familant Editor’s Note: Rabbi Familant wrote this note some time ago, but he feels that it is uniquely applicable today. We very much agree. Mr. Jacobson, I shall start with your rather provocative statement: “Rhetoric is precisely what has warped report and analysis these past months…’Massacre’ and ‘Slaughter’ are rhetorical terms. They…
Read MorePondering the Future
With so many negative events in our lives these days, it’s not easy to sort through it all and organize it into some kind of logical treatise. Especially when one of my advanced age whose utterances can bring a dismissal like, “Oh, don’t bother with what she has to say, old people are out of…
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