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When infrastructure meets road

Republicans are under attack.WhoĢƵ behind the outrage aimed squarely in their direction?Their fellow Republicans.This is gonna be fun.GeorgiaĢƵ ever-undignified congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has made it her personal crusade to attack many of her 32 fellow Republicans who claimed ...

Tucker Carlson’s Great Replacement Theory

Tucker Carlson knows what heĢƵ doing.He thinks people are stupid.He frequently speaks in ways that racists can make use of his frequent rants for their purposes.Then he expresses surprise that anybody would blame him for actions those racists took.He now cleverly claims that he doesn’t even ...

West Virginia’s Huff played to win

Sam Huff died last week. If that name means nothing to you, then you’re not of a certain age.The son of a West Virginia coal miner, Huff was a bruising, All-American line backer at West Virginia University in the 1950s. He played professionally with the New York (football) Giants and the ...

Building Big Bird Back Better

Building Big Bird Back BetterI don’t have anything against Big Bird.HeĢƵ fine as far as I’m concerned.But I’m 73 years old. I’ve never quite been in that big fellowĢƵ target audience.So, when that 8-foot 2-inch, anthropomorphic bird found himself in the crosshairs of a U.S. senator, ...

The Nazis (big) lied their way to top

Thomas Childers, a great writer that you’ve probably never heard of, has composed a disturbing book, though how could it be otherwise?The book is about Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.I highly recommend it. Give it as a Christmas present. ItĢƵ not cheering, of course; itĢƵ dismal reading. ...

The case against critical race fear-mongering

Beware of Obamacare!Those “death panels” are brutal.Remember them?They were hatched out of thin air by Republicans, with hopes of thwarting President ObamaĢƵ proposed health-care reform bill in 2009.It was the boogeyman the folks on the right used as shorthand for the predicted danger ...