by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 27, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Poll shows U.S. tumbling in world’s regard under Trump President Trump has alarmed citizens of the nation’s closest allies and others worldwide, diminishing the standing of the United States in their eyes, according to a wide-ranging international study...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 26, 2017 | Atheism, Religion
Don’t Inject Your Religious Beliefs Into My Grief This is a guest post by Julie Stahl. She is a writer who lives on the central coast of California. This piece originally appeared in the September, 2016 issue of Freethought Today and is reprinted here with...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 25, 2017 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump
Rick Perry loses his cool when confronted by Sen. Franken on climate science After a week full of misleading and inaccurate statements, Energy Secretary Rick Perry remained incredulous and defiant when confronted with climate science-related facts in a budget hearing...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 22, 2017 | • Politics, The Democrats
Yes, this is the kind of DEMOCRAT and MESSAGE we need more of if we are going to restore that values that made the party great once upon a time. Paul Ryan’s Opponent Is a Union Ironworker Who Just Launched the Campaign Ad of the Year Meet Randy Bryce, a union...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 22, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Racism
I Was Wrong about Trump Voters – Michael Baharaeen – Medium After the November election, one prevailing narrative suggested that the primary reason people voted for Donald Trump had to do with poor economic prospects that stemmed from trade and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 22, 2017 | • Politics, The Democrats
Jon Ossoff’s Loss Should Be a Lesson to Corporate Democrats I woke up to news this morning that Jon Ossoff’s failure to flip Georgia’s 6 th Congressional district will ” Ad Policy come as a crushing emotional blow to Democrats.” Well, not...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 20, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Education
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: 12 Simple Pictures That Will Put the Daunting Degree into Perspective Matthew Might, a computer science professor at the University of Utah, writes: “Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 20, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
I keep on thinking I am not supposed to be a David Brooks fan but he is certainly dead on correct in his assessment of Donald Trump. I’ll praise his leadership for being a Republican who won’t sell his soul to the devil and will stand up and criticize...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 20, 2017 | • Politics, The Democrats
The Blathering Superego at the End of History – Los Angeles Review of Books LIBERALISM IS NOT working. Something deep within the mechanism has cracked. All our wonk managers, our expert stewards of the world, have lost their way. They wander desert highways in a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 20, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
CNN White House Reporter Questions Covering ‘Bizarre’ And ‘Pointless’ Briefings CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Monday questioned why he, and the rest of the press corps, bothered showing up. “I don’t know what world...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 19, 2017 | Health Care
Five Percent of Americans Account For 50 Percent of U.S. Medical Bills Each year, 1 in every 20 Americans racks up just as much in medical bills as another 19 combined. This critical five percent of the U.S. population is key to solving the nation’s health care...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 19, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
On FaceBook just yesterday on seeing the satirical article President Trump Orders the Execution of Five Turkeys Pardoned by Obama I wrote: For several weeks maybe months now I have decided Trump has no real policy ideas and has actually never given policy any kind of...
