by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 8, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Military
Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows President Donald Trump received a loud ovation when he participated in the coin toss ahead of Saturday’s Army-Navy football rivalry game in Philadelphia. But troops’...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 8, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Much Of The World Doesn’t Trust President Trump, Pew Survey Finds A clear majority of people living outside the U.S. do not trust President Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, with fewer than one-third expressing confidence in him – an opinion...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics
Win-win solutions are a fantasy: in reality, progress creates both winners and losers | Aeon Videos It’s no secret that the biggest gains in the growing global economy are reaped by the extremely wealthy. And from philanthropy to tech initiatives, plenty of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics
Lost on far to many was that Ricky Gervais first condemned companies like Apple, Amazon, and Disney for their reprehensible, greedy, shameful, shitty behavior as corporate citizens before he chided the award winners for working for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me,” Ocasio-Cortez said, after Reuters had reported that Biden was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
CEOs rake in 940% more than 40 years ago, while average workers earn 12% more CEO compensation rose 940% from 1978 to 2018, compared with a 12% rise in pay for the average American worker during the same period, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In 2018,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics
How To Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda ❧ Current Affairs The Trump administration has assassinated Iran’s top military leader, Qassim Suleimani, and with the possibility of a serious escalation in violent conflict, it’s a good time to think about how...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
From the article: —“Considering the booming economy, dropping unemployment numbers and the return of many once-emigrated young Portuguese citizens, it seems Portugal is on the rise. Facing the policies of socialist Prime Minister António Costa, which include properly...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 To a certain kind of Democratic Party establishmentarian, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she was not “likable” enough – a sentiment that may or may not be thinly veiled code for saying that she’s a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 4, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
A good article presenting the reasoning on why we should NOT run Biden against Trump. Stop saying Biden is the ‘most electable’. Trump will run rings round him | Nathan Robinson Supporters of Joe Biden are unlikely to be persuaded by most of the common...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2020 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
From the beginning of Kurt Andersen’s (Wikipedia & KurtAndersen.com) lecture: Back thirty years before he was President in United States, twenty years before there was a United States, John Adams as you may know served as the defense lawyer for the British...
