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‘I do hope that doggie’s for sale’

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 4, 2015Leave a comment

One would say that the good outweighed the bad for Ted Cruz last week, and the bad was horrid. In the Senate, he was openly scorned by fellow Republicans for his routine and rash showboating. That included calling Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar. Cruz. blazing a culinary trail this week with "machine-gun bacon," was…

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Jim Crow lives on in America’s prisons

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 29, 2015Leave a comment

War is hell. Post-Civil War, Reconstruction was hellish. In a beauty contest, however, Reconstruction was in a dead heat with the Redemption for ugliness. The difference had to do with the losers in both. In the former it was Dixie. In the latter, it was people with black skin. I invested a very large chunk…

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Time to leave No Child Left Behind behind

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 22, 2015Leave a comment

Dog days. Dog days. Nothing to write about. Nothing at all. Caitlyn Jenner’s evening wear? The latest Cosby atrocity? The freshest offering of Trump idiocy? What to write about? Hmm. How about something that has affected every family of every child in every public school for over a decade? With so many people dramatically affected…

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Captives of commerce in a shooting gallery

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 14, 2015Leave a comment

We now know that racist trigger man Dylan Roof should not have been able to purchase a firearm. The FBI’s background check system should have blocked it based on felony drug charges. To this, a Facebook post announced, “Proof positive that making it harder to purchase guns will not make it harder for criminals to…

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Founders’ intentions got redistricted right off the map

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 7, 2015Leave a comment

Most Americans don’t know how long it took for a notion “conceived in liberty” in 1776 to gestate. For a notion to become a nation, that is. Eleven years is how long it took: seven years of war, four years of legal flux, before the Constitution was signed. When that was done, outside the Constitutional…

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On the run, on campaign trail: the defiant ones

UncategorizedBy John YoungJune 30, 2015Leave a comment

        Fugitives from the law. Desperate. Defiant. Hiding out in plain sight. Won’t go down without a fight. We thought the two New York prison fugitives were a tough case. Now come the fugitives from the historic U.S. Supreme Court pronunciations on marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act. Where to flee? Canada…

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Possession is nine-tenths of racism

UncategorizedBy John YoungJune 24, 2015Leave a comment

  How could someone hate a person simply because of dark pigment? Based on our history of racial progress and regress, it’s simple.   Racism mostly is about entitlement, about power, about privilege. And this key point: In our country it’s about a victimhood that never really happened.   Racism is nine-tenths possession. The remaining one-tenth…

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For the Way-Back Gang, it is because it is

UncategorizedBy John YoungJune 16, 2015Leave a comment

  What makes a conservative conservative?   Aversion to reality, that’s what.   Don’t jump on me for that assertion. Blame University of California-Berkeley researchers. A few years ago they did an analysis of the conservative psyche. Among other things, they deduced that what underlies the conservative mindset is “intolerance of ambiguity,” otherwise known as being…

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A pothole: the tea party national monument

UncategorizedBy John YoungJune 10, 2015Leave a comment

        My shocks were shocked. My struts, too. I was headed down I-25 north of Denver when, with the force of an albatross across the face, a tremendous pothole presented itself. Fortunately, I had hands at 10 and 2. I was obeying the speed limit. Even at that, for a moment, hugging my…

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It’s your right to have a few sticks of TNT on your hips

UncategorizedBy John YoungJune 2, 2015Leave a comment

And now a word from the Dynamite Owners of America – DOA: Wake up, America. At this crucial time in our nation’s history, our freedoms are under fire as never before. That’s why we must fight to protect our absolute, clearly defined, Second Amendment right to bear high explosives.          The sad truth is that…

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