What Biden Speech was Andy Biggs Watching

Polls broadcast after President Joe Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress showed tremendous support for what the new Chief Executive had to say. According to reporting from Axios: CBS reported 85 percent of viewers approved the speech and 78 percent felt more optimistic about the future of the country afterward. CNN found … Read more

Hillary Clinton Had Greater Class and was More Adult, Brave, and Committed to National Unity than Donald Trump

William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. What else do they have in common other than running for United States President and losing at least one time? Well none of them attempted a political insurrection to overturn the election … Read more

Senate Republicans See No Evil Hear No Evil

It appears after the first five days of the Senate Impeachment Trial of Individual One-2016 Popular Vote Loser-KKK Endorsed Candidate President Donald Trump that most Senate Republicans are adopting the attitude of See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Even the moderates Democrats are hoping come to their side on calling witnesses (like Susan Collins or … Read more

Climate Change Deniers Must heed the Lessons of Noah and the Ark

In the telling of the later versions of the Genesis tale of Noah and the Ark (those not in the original Biblical accounts), the people are shown mocking Noah and his family for wasting a century in constructing the large vessel that would sustain them and the selected animals during the flood. In other versions, they ignore Noah’s warnings to build arks of their own so they avoid the cataclysm that God intended for Earth. Today, with a significant portion of the Trump (formerly Republican) Party denying the existence of human-made climate change, it is easy now to see the Genesis Flood story as one of climate change with Noah as the protagonist warning people of the natural catastrophe that was about to be unleashed and the rest of the populace denying and ridiculing him until it was too late. Today, it is the scientists warning of the consequences of our actions and inactions on climate change and it is the Trump Administration, in denying its own far-reaching report, that are not heeding the lessons of history and pursuing policies to combat the problem while it still can be.

We need to pay heed to the environmental lessons of Noah and the Ark.

It is ironic that the now Trump Party in its former Republican Party form once embraced and championed science, land conservation, and environmental protection. It was a Republican President Theodore Roosevelt that helped develop the United States Forest and Park Services. It was a Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, following the launch of Sputnik, who oversaw the creation of N.A.S.A. and the start of the space race. It was a Republican President Richard Nixon that signed the legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) and Clean Air Act.

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