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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up – OpEd

You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up – OpEd

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich

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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich...

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Another Hellacious Idea from the Texas Laboratory of Bad Government

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What if Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?

23.10.2025 30

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America’s History, Says Lord Trump, Is Exactly What I Say It Is

15.10.2025 2

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Gov Abbott Says His Presidential Ambition Is ‘God’s Design’

14.10.2025 2

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Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Tax That You Do

My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet I do consider myself rich. Not Wall...

09.10.2025 10

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Warning: Just Reading About Bayer’s Greed Can Cause Headaches

25.09.2025 3

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No Need to Raise Social Security Taxes — Make the Rich Pay Their Full Share!

17.09.2025 4

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This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

03.09.2025 3

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Beware! Congress is Stuck in Reverse

29.08.2025 3

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The Texas Gerrymander Is an Attack on the Foundation of Representative Democracy

28.08.2025 6

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Trump is for Sale, Sure, but You Can Also Lease Him

13.08.2025 10

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Can Feisty Journalists Rescue Their Newspaper from Corporate Greed … Again?

06.08.2025 4

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Gaza Is a Moral Reckoning for Israel – And for You and Me

01.08.2025 4

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Disaster Warning: Profiteers Are Trying to Privatize America’s Public Weather Service

22.07.2025 4

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Sanitation Workers Should be Paid More than Trump’s Cabinet

Surprisingly, top Republicans in Congress and the White House have recently been praising labor! Well, not laborers — but “laboring.”...

22.07.2025 20

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Can Trump’s Perfume Cloak the Stink of GOP Corruption?

16.07.2025 4

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Bezos and Other Billionaires Defecating on Florida Town

05.07.2025 2

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‘Feed the Troops!’ Soldiers Say It’s Hard to Eat a $45 Million Parade

26.06.2025 10

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Instead of Being Down About Trump, People Are Rising Up

23.06.2025 4

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Call Them What They Are: Corporate Mobsters

13.06.2025 3

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MAGA to Women: Stay Home and Have Babies

The right wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.” But look out! Here come those same politicians,...

10.06.2025 10

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Should the ‘Local Shrimp’ You Buy Come from 8,000 Miles Away?

08.06.2025 3

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What Starlings Could Teach Trump’s Mean Government

28.05.2025 4

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Moral Rights for AI Bots? What About Human Bots?

23.05.2025 6

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My Church is a Farmer’s Market – And Vice Versa

14.05.2025 4

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Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need Or Greed? – OpEd

The federal budget is not only about money, but fundamentally about our country’s morality — our commitment to fairness, equality, and unity. Which...

09.05.2025 7

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The Big Fool Says to Push On – Better Yet, Push Back Against Him

09.05.2025 4

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Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need … or Greed?

02.05.2025 5

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What Is Behind Trump’s Lust for Greenland?

23.04.2025 4

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Trump and Musk Will Kill Social Security—But Only If We Let Them

19.04.2025 10

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It’s Called Sabotage: Trump & Musk’s So-Called ‘Reform’

18.04.2025 10

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Reform The USDA – OpEd

Harry Truman once proclaimed: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That might explain the calamitous mess that President...

08.04.2025 5

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When Greedy Corporations Want a Stupid Law, They Come to Texas

02.04.2025 10

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Trump, Musk and ‘Little Buddy’ v. The People

26.03.2025 4

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Hey, Democrats: To Defeat Trump Autocracy – Get Out of Washington

14.03.2025 3

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Now Is the Time to Push for a Democratic Democratic Party

05.03.2025 6

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Ironically, Trump’s Coup Attempt is Uniting Americans to Fight for Their Common Good

26.02.2025 3

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An AI Bot Won’t Take Your Job. Will It?

24.02.2025 10

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5-Alarm Monopoly Fire! Time to Fight

14.02.2025 30

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Bizarre: Today’s Politicians Celebrate Jerks and Ignore Grassroots Geniuses

05.02.2025 4

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The Royal Threat Behind Trump’s Petty Pomposity

31.01.2025 8

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Yes, You Can Fight the Bastards… and Win!

24.01.2025 10

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The Billionaire Bros Do the Immigrant Worker Two-Step

17.01.2025 20

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Jimmy Carter’s Light Exposes Trump Darkness

10.01.2025 5

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My New Year’s Resolutions for Some Powerful People

I made a few New Year’s resolutions this week — not for me, but as self-improvement ideas for some of the powerful people running our country. No...

04.01.2025 10

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Daddy’s Philosophy

This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas, Hanukkah and other...

24.12.2024 5

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Greed is Immoral. Health Care Greed is Abominable

America has endured a long panorama of corporate greed — from the East India Trading Company to the Robber Barons, Gordon Gecko Wall Streeters to...

18.12.2024 40

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Don’t Buy Coca-Cola Plastic Promise

Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King was renowned for his frequent malapropisms and contorted logic, and now Coca-Cola wants to borrow his tactic to...

17.12.2024 5

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