Recently I heard an airline gate agent reading the familiar announcement that active-duty military personnel were welcome to board before everyone else and I asked myself, why?
Identity Politics Made Simple
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For most of the 20th century left-of-center politics was defined by class struggle between the rich and the poor. Now the left has been completely subsumed by identity politics, the struggles for historically disadvantaged demographic groups for equality. Unfortunately the class struggle (which largely drove the oppression of women and minorities) has been all but forgotten by mainstream liberal politicians and political parties.
We’re So Corrupt We Can Only Nail Politicians on a Technicality
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They got Al Capone for taxes because the system wasn’t competent enough to nail him for organized crime and murder. Now it looks like Joe Biden is about to be pushed out of the 2020 presidential campaign, but not for his most serious offenses to morality and decency.
Joe Biden Was Also a Victim of Inappropriate Touching
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Two women have accused former vice president and possible 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden of inappropriately touching their bodies and hair. Serious accusations but the real dirt on Biden is even worse.
Russia Russia Russia Never Mind Russia
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If you were in charge of a Democratic Party committee scheming to get rid of President Trump, what would be the low-hanging fruit? Most likely you’d start with his bizarre personality. The Founding Fathers created impeachment as a way to get rid of a mentally incompetent president. You’d certainly consider his sleazy businesses. How many laws has he broken there? What you almost certainly would not do would be to gin up a conspiracy theory in which he enlisted a foreign country to hack Democratic Party computers to obtain information to discredit his opponent.
If You Were Out to Get Donald Trump, Russiagate Is Not How You’d Do It
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If you were in charge of a Democratic Party committee scheming to get rid of President Trump, what would be the low-hanging fruit? Most likely you’d start with his bizarre personality. The Founding Fathers created impeachment as a way to get rid of a mentally incompetent president. You’d certainly consider his sleazy businesses. How many laws has he broken there? What you almost certainly would not do would be to gin up a conspiracy theory in which he enlisted a foreign country to hack Democratic Party computers to obtain information to discredit his opponent.
Jared Kushner’s New-and-Improved Middle East Peace Process
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The United States presents itself as an “honest broker” in peace negotiations between Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. But they keep putting their thumb on the scale. Now President Trump has eliminated all pretense of objectivity, effectively informing the Palestinians that he doesn’t care about their positions. Trump’s latest gambit: recognizing Israel’s ownership of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria during the Six-Day War.
Finally, the Reason Congress Doesn’t Care About You Even One Little Bit
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Americans and the planet they live on have big problems. Why don’t their elected representatives seem to care about solving them?
Tragic Employers Have No Way to Find Workers To Do Exactly What They Want
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Poor employers! They say they just can’t find enough qualified workers to fill openings for jobs. Meanwhile. workers still have trouble finding work. If only there were a way to “train” workers to fill positions. We’d even have a name for this procedure. We’d call is: job training.
Under Capitalism, Expensive Equipment is Always, Unlike People, Innocent Until Proven Guilty
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After a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crashed in Indonesia, it turned out that the accident was probably caused by the failure to train pilots in a new automated piloting protocol. But rather than ground the planes immediately, American officials waited. Then another Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, probably for the same reason, this time in Ethiopia. Again, the U.S. waited, becoming one of the last countries to deny the planes permission to fly. Why didn’t we put safety first? Because profits matter more than people.
