GoFundMe is an American for-profit crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents, illnesses, etc. From 2010 to the beginning of 2020, over $9 billion has been raised on the platform, with contributions from over 120 million donors. It advertises itself […]
On Thanksgiving Day there was a gathering of descendants of Native American tribes on a hill overlooking the site of the Mayflower landing. They were there not to give thanks but to mourn the Pilgrim’s arrival and the centuries of white man’s racism and mistreatment. I believe these people are wrong. White people did not […]
The Democrats often accuse the Republicans of voter suppression. Senator Schumer makes these charges as he pushes HR1 (The For the People Act) to give the Federal government greater control over the electoral process. The danger of further concentration of power in Washington, D.C. is frightening to me. Is this act needed to protect voter’s […]
Is this America, the land of freedom? Evidently not in the Norfolk Police Department. In the summer of 2020 young Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested and charged with murdering two rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Evidence appeared indicating that Rittenhouse had acted in self-defense, and a number of fund-raisers developed to cover the costs of his legal […]
As I review the media’s coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse affair, I am astounded by the volume of lies and misinformation propagated by many news channels. Among their other erroneous statements and insinuations, I found the following: They made to appear that Kyle Rittenhouse nefariously crossed state borders and entered the town of Kenosha with […]
According to a widely-repeated legend, one major American newspaper actually printed Mark Twain’s obituary and, when Twain was told about this by a reporter, he quipped: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Like Twain, some over-eager newspapers and civil functionaries have been trying to bury me for years. When I married Ann McGuire […]
Kenosha Riot 2020 How many of you have followed the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, now on trial for murdering two protestors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the turbulent summer of 2020? Reactions to the incident and to the trial provide a vivid illustration of the cultural and racial issues that divide America. Some people consider Rittenhouse […]
We need term limits for our representatives and senators! We need them yesterday! The present system is broken. Once elected, a person elected to the United State House of Representatives must immediately begin working on reelection. The reelection campaign will start less than a year after the representative takes office; and to be reelected, he […]
This is not about the triple option or triple threat in American football. Instead, this is my third post on the subject of fake news. In addition to those past posts, I have written elsewhere about the unreliability of traditional news sources and the malevolent effects of inaccurate reporting in social media. It’s a sad […]
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