Our Surveillance Society- Part 2
Another cop abusing a black man. Like yesterday’s post, this video shows a law enforcement network completely out of control: Recommend this Post
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Our Surveillance Society
While we are both right and justified in our concerns over privacy compromises and violations that modern technology seems to have turned into a tsunami, sometimes that very technology can…
A Sad State Of Affairs
While the fallout of United Airlines’ (“Fly the friendly skies of United”) forcible removal of a paying customer from an overbooked flight continues to reverberate, the ugly incident is reminding…
An Excellent Policy Initiative
Although perhaps less than perfect, New York state has taken a bold move in promising free college/university tuition for its residents whose families earn less than $100,000 per year. This…
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Air Travel, Or Am I Just Another Hypocrite?
Having just returned from a 10-day visit to England, my first and my wife’s third, the hypocrisy of my use of air travel is not lost on me. Well-known as…
A Brief Pause
The metaphorical road beckons. See you in a bit. Recommend this Post
Fortress Amerika Begins To Pay A Heavy Price
Now that the parody of a president selected by the American people has infected the U.S. national psyche with more than its usual quotient of paranoia and xenophobia, those same…
Star Letter-Writers Seldom Disappoint
Whenever I am feeling a bit down about the world around me and the passivity with which so many ‘face’ it, I know I can go to the letters section…
Setting The Record Straight
Now that Senator Don Meridith, about whom I have previously posted, has switched lawyers, it is gratifying to see that his cowardly cries of racism as a factor in the…
Just A Couple Of Questions
Given that I have no background in economics, I will leave it to more finely-tuned minds to debate the merits of yesterday’s federal budget. However, there are a couple of…
Not Like His Father At All
A few days ago I posted a letter by Star reader Cathy Allen in which she discussed what it would take for her to regain her pride as a Canadian.…
A Circumstantial Noose
In his opening statement before James Comey’s testimony yesterday in front of the House Intelligence Committee probing Trump ties to Russia, Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) laid out of all…
An Ally Of Ignorance
What is a manIf his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.– Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4. Some of the greatest…
More On The Rogue Senator And Moral Coward, Don Meredith
On Friday’s Power and Politics, host Rosemary Barton was her usual relentless self, evident in her sharp questioning of Selwyn Pieters, the attorney representing disgraced Senator Don Meredith, about whom…
An Outstanding Letter!
While I have always considered myself an able letter-to-the-editor writer, I have also developed ability over the years to recognize superior work when I see it. The following letter from…
A Moral Coward
Every so often, I happen upon a news item that, for want of a better word, inflames me; it is usually something so patently outrageous that my capacity for calm…
Amen
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Absolutely Spellbinding
It is hardly an insight to state that we have largely wasted and abused the intelligence that evolution has conferred on us. Instead of nurturing and protecting our own species…
More Reasons To Boycott U.S Travel
I have no regrets about my recent decision to boycott travel to the United States as long as the Trump regime, dominated as it is by paranoid exclusions and hate-mongering…
Part Political Theatre and Part Schoolyard Bully
And probably the saddest thing is that far too many people take this kind of clown seriously: Recommend this Post