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Politics

Only Conservatives Fall For Fake News Stories

Phil Mayes Nov 29, 2016 Tagged with Fake news

There has been much coverage of fake news stories and how they might have affected the …

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What Went Wrong

Phil Mayes Nov 9, 2016 Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Election, Trump

Here’s what went wrong. There were establishment and populist candidates on both sides. Thirty years of …

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The Demise of the GOP

Phil Mayes Oct 18, 2016

Trumpty dumped the GOP call; Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the right rednecks and …

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How to Regard This Week’s Race Conflicts

Phil Mayes Jul 9, 2016 Tagged with Fear, Guns, Race, Saletan

William Saletan has written a Slate article There Is a War Over Race in America in which …

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Continuing NYTimes Bias

Phil Mayes May 10, 2016 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 …

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Actions Have Consequences

Phil Mayes Dec 3, 2015 Tagged with War

Paris/San Bernadino happened because of ISIS. ISIS arose because Iraq was invaded. Iraq was invaded because …

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Bernie Sanders will be President

Phil Mayes Jul 8, 2015 Tagged with Bernie Sanders, Election

I came to this conclusion a week ago. Reasons: His policies are popular He is consistent …

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Our beliefs resist new facts

Phil Mayes Mar 23, 2015 Tagged with Beliefs, confirmation bias

Mother Jones has a really interesting article on how our beliefs block new information: Pre-existing beliefs, …

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Right-wing commentator tilts left!

Phil Mayes Feb 18, 2015 Tagged with David Brooks, PTSD, War

David Brooks is the token conservative on the New York Times OpEd page. He replaced the …

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Five Ways America is a Faux Democracy

Phil Mayes Jun 12, 2014 Tagged with Democracy, Election

The existence of elections, civil law and free speech gives the appearance of a functioning democracy, …

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