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Year: 2016

A Supreme Court Strategy for Democrats

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 29, 2016 Posted in Law, Politics No Comments Tagged with Merrick Garland, Supreme Court
A Supreme Court Strategy for Democrats

Democratic Senators should refuse to approve any Supreme Court nominee until Merrick Garland is renominated. This would be a principled stand that allows Republicans to make amends for their recalcitrance, offers a centrist appointment to a divided country, and is less radical …

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Tackling the Problem of Fake News

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 13, 2016 Posted in Media, Society No Comments Tagged with Slate, Snopes

Slate is launching an attempt to mark fake news. They will “rely on crowdsourcing and human moderation by Slate staffers and contributors.” There will probably be sabotage attempts by bad actors, and the results will be criticized for liberal bias …

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Only Conservatives Fall For Fake News Stories

By Phil Mayes Posted on November 29, 2016 Posted in Media, Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with Fake news

There has been much coverage of fake news stories and how they might have affected the election. Interestingly, the news site owners said that the only stories that went viral were pro-conservative ones. He was amazed at how quickly fake news …

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What Went Wrong

By Phil Mayes Posted on November 9, 2016 Posted in Politics No Comments Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Election, Trump

Here’s what went wrong. There were establishment and populist candidates on both sides. Thirty years of tax cuts, trade agreements and computerization gave all the productivity gains to the top, and the average person suffered. Republicans chose the populist candidate, the …

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The Demise of the GOP

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 18, 2016 Posted in Politics No Comments

Trumpty dumped the GOP call; Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the right rednecks and all the right men Couldn’t stand being together again. The Republican party sustained its uneasy coalition of social and fiscal(*) conservatives for years, but …

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The Environmental Impact of Food

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 16, 2016 Posted in The environment No Comments

One of the reasons I reverted to vegetarianism was the environmental impact of meat, so I was taken aback to read that cheese is the 3rd-highest in terms of CO2 production, ahead of pork, salmon, turkey and chicken. Detailed figures are …

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How to Regard This Week’s Race Conflicts

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 9, 2016 Posted in Peace, Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with Fear, Guns, Race, Saletan

William Saletan has written a Slate article There Is a War Over Race in America in which he brilliantly redraws the dividing line: This is the central thing to understand about what happened in Dallas: Black people who target whites are …

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You Can’t Fight Words With Swords

By Phil Mayes Posted on June 28, 2016 Posted in Peace, Religion No Comments Tagged with ISIS, Islam, War

Let’s talk about ISIS. Yes, it’s a military organization, amongst other things, but far more than that, it’s an idea, a radical Islamic idea. It’s a terrible idea, based on medieval attitudes, but it’s still an idea. Hands up who …

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Continuing NYTimes Bias

By Phil Mayes Posted on May 10, 2016 Posted in Media, Politics 1 Comment Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Clinton, Election, New York Times, Trump

I have railed for months about the pro-Clinton bias in the NYTimes. Today’s headline reads Three Crucial States Show Tight Races Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton PARA 2: “The Quinnipiac University surveys, released on Tuesday, show Mrs. Clinton leading Mr. …

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