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A Heist On The Hill

If you’re reading this, you’re likely not a billionaire. If you are, congratulations: Trump and the Republican majority in Congress–including Rep. Nick Langworthy–have your back. Last week, Langworthy and company voted to advance Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill. It’s big, but not beautiful for the 99% reading this. We get nothing, while billionaires and corporations grow even richer off the backs of working families. Better understand which side of this cruel line you’re on. Langworthy and the Republicans are acting like anti-Robinhoods: stealing from the ...

True Patriots Will Clean Up Trump’s Mess

We’ve been reading a lot in these pages about a new scourge haunting the lunatic right, Marxo-Fascism. I’ve even been called a Marxo-Fascist myself, but I’m really more of a Groucho-Marxist. I’m not even sure what a Marxo-Fascist is. I googled it and didn’t find much. Even my AI app didn’t know what it was. This really surprised me since the term certainly sounds like it was made up by someone with artificial intelligence. What is at play here is a frequency illusion, a cognitive bias that makes a person who has just learned something, like a cool and sinister sounding ...

Is It An Apple Or A Banana?

First of all I voted for President Trump and I am proud of it. However, I believe in a woman’s right to choose. When I vote I look at the totality of a candidate and which person is going to be the best President for our country. I also watch the liberal channels. It’s a known fact that if a person is told the same thing over and over again they will soon believe what they are told. For example if someone is constantly told a banana is an apple and an apple is a banana they will eventually believe it. Just read some of these articles from writers who have CNN syndrome and you’ll ...

Nazis, Communists Are Similar, Not Opposites

If you saw a particular Sunday network-television-news program on Feb. 16, you heard the host say that in Germany, “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Yes, you read that correctly: “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Let’s think that one through. Do you believe that? Does the host have anything to back that up? ♦♦♦ One week later, in the Feb. 23 German federal election, the center-right Christian Democratic Union and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union—together called the Union—were the top vote getter. ...

View From Hickory Heights: A Common Invention!

Do you know who Walter Hunt was? I am guessing you probably do not recognize the name, but he made a significant contribution that we all have used. In 1849 he invented the safety pin. He received his patent, but later sold it to satisfy a debt. He received $400 for his patent ending his claim to fame. The article I read had pictures. The safety pin from the time of his patent remained virtually the same as it looks today. I do remember some decorative safety pins from my diaper days. There were some that were bunnies, some ducks, and some that looked like other pets. I also recall ...

Remembering An Old Friend

A few weeks ago, an old friend died—Paul Bush. His passing was not immediately known here. He had quietly lived for many years in Florida in his retirement. He was no longer “making waves” in this community...though, at one time, he had made many. It doesn’t take long for memories to fade. As Alfred Lord Tennyson once poignantly wrote: “The old order changeth, yielding place to new.” But, one advantage in being old, like me, is that I still have vivid memories. I can tell you of being a kid five years old and celebrating the end of World War II in downtown ...