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Big Tech lawyers are riding high. A Delaware judge recently delivered a lengthy memo trampling the American justice system and supporting Big Tech’s longstanding efforts to crush smaller entrepreneurs.
Read moreThere were more homicides in the U.S. in 2021 than in the previous 20 years, according to an article in The Washington Post by two prominent professors of criminology, Dr. Aaron Chalfin and Dr. John MacDonald.
Read moreYour television blares out the warning: “A lion is loose in the neighborhood. Watch out, he is a killer.” Immediately posses are organized, guns are passed out, and the neighborhoods are searched for the killer. Then others, opposing the TV warning, try to defuse the incident: “That cat is just a little pussy cat. Feed him some milk and he is just a little kitten”.
Read moreBecause critical race theory is the most divisive doctrine ever to threaten America's schools, it has spawned a great parent revolt, which has turned ordinary moms and dads into extraordinary heroes.
Read moreThere’s an old hymn we’ll sing in church every now and then called trust and obey.
Read moreThe South of the United States, from early 1800s through turbulent growth amid the Jackson and Polk regimes, up to and including the 1860s, can be simplistically described as a racio-regional police state run by a small number of oligarchic plantation and business owners in each of these states. Lower classes--enslaved blacks and poor whites-were kept subservient and largely dependent on cotton, the eventual main economic driver during that century and much of the next. I stated in my previous column that the particular system of controlling people and money over this entire time and region can also be labeled an early emanation of what we now call fascism. Granted this is a more-than-fair mouthful to swallow, please allow me now to explain how and to what extent this overall arrangement I have labeled fascistic existed and prevailed well past the mid-1900s, before anyone had ever heard the term and before the conditions developed to the extent we faced during the 20th century and now again in the 21st century.
Read moreEver since the earliest cave-dwelling humans wandered in search of safe and supportive lands where they could live and feed their families, a rude awakening would sometimes greet them in the form of another clan, showing up at the same cave, at the same time, when there wasn’t enough room to accommodate everyone.
Read moreI think I first saw Disney’s “Bambi” at the Leon Theater in downtown Pleasanton when I was 5 years old or so. Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the movie, but plan to, stop reading now. I’ll give you a few moments… Okay – Bambi’s mom is killed by a hunter. Pretty sad, huh?
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