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Two weeks ago, when I wrote the article “Those Who Refuse the Vaccine are Facing the Consequences,” I couldn’t have imagined the number of comments that the article would generate, both pro and con. When I wrote the article I tried to explain that if you don’t get the Covid shot, you and you alone … Read more
Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said, ”Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts”. These words written in 1983, with today’s relentless attacks on facts and the truth, are now even more applicable. The election was stolen, the January 6th insurrectionists were tourists, and the Earth is flat. Yes, there … Read more
It’s hard to understand the recent Covid misinformation from Republican politicians and anti-vaxxers on social media. Why would anyone believe any of it when their own lives and their children’s lives are at stake? Even Fox News pundits Sean Hannity and Steve Doocey support getting a Covid shot. Fox also has a vaccine public service … Read more
Political partisanship and the outsized influence of money have made effective governance at all levels, difficult to achieve. Lack of accountability is another significant contributor to the dysfunction and is greatly speeding us down the road to ruin. Accountability is defined as “the fact or condition of being accountable” and “the quality or state of … Read more
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana. He must have been talking about Arizona’s so-called middle-class tax cuts. Or the famous Republican trickle-down economic theory that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would inevitably “trickle-down” to workers. On the contrary, there is ample evidence showing that wealth has … Read more