Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” is no more. “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” should be removed from the Statue of Liberty.
“Basket of deplorables” is an odd turn of phrase, but Hillary was right. So was Obama when he said, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
I consider Trump’s bromance buddy Putin to be so bad he’s something of a throwback to Stalin. Soviet-era composer Dmitri Shostakovich, after falling out of favor with Stalin, got back in Joseph’s good graces with his fifth symphony. It’s a favorite of mine, so I have that much in common with a brutal dictator. I wonder if Vlad the Invader likes it, too?
I became aware of the John Birch Society almost sixty years ago when, as a child in Norwalk, Connecticut, I saw the conspiracy-obsessed organization participate in a 4th of July parade. There was a Bircher chapter in nearby Bridgeport, as mentioned in this NPR report.
NONE of the crazy assertions made by the John Birch Society came to pass. A rational person would eventually realize they’re on the wrong side of reality, but fanatics aren’t rational.
Silver has maintained his prediction that Trump will overtake Harris, 55 percent and 45 percent respectively, to return to the White House.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/nate-silver-cheating-pollsters-putting-163354984.html
There are countless reasons why businesses fail. Some are nobody’s fault. When the pandemic hit, restaurants did everything they could to survive, but many folded. Then there are the management failures. K-Mart wasn’t able to compete against Walmart. For much of the 20th century, Sears was what Amazon is today.
I will always be more than merely disappointed in my former employer of many years. Senior management’s hubris resulted in a total failure to respond in time to competition from Epic Systems. (No relation to Epic Games, other than they’re both software companies.)
The Federal Trade Commission needs to apply a different standard to its definition of a monopoly where Epic is concerned. A reasonable estimate is that Epic manages 75% of America’s non-military medical records. (Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has the military systems.)
Epic’s power and influence is finally starting to get some attention…
… from conservative sources…
… as well as from the far left.
I used to consider the Cato Institute as home to the craziest think tank nonsense, but that’s changed. The Heritage Foundation has proven itself to be totally lost in an extremist fantasy land of lies, dangerous assertions and dictatorial goals.
The right is sowing doubt about the election and putting so much emphasis on immigration, because they know the country’s demographics are shifting away from the Republican party. They knew it after Obama was reelected in 2012, but instead of accepting reality and changing direction as recommended by the RNC, they let Trump take over the party.
The report, called the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” lays out an extensive plan the RNC believes will lead the party to victory with an extensive outreach to women, African-American, Asian, Hispanic and gay voters.
