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Coin sets and white male supremacy (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 14, 2025 by gdkrenz

If you would like evidence that the ultimate goal of the Trump Administration and MAGA leadership is a white-male-supremacist society, look no further than the Treasury Department’s release of designs for the US Mint coin set commemorating the nation’s 250th … Continue reading →

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Our American Heritage (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 7, 2025 by gdkrenz

Barb and I just finished watching the mini-series about the assassination of President James Garfield, Death by Lightning. It’s on Netflix, and if you are able to watch it, I highly recommend it. There is much to say about it and … Continue reading →

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Phil Klay’s moral analysis of the boat strikes (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 6, 2025 by gdkrenz

There was an outstanding op-ed in the NYT yesterday by Phil Klay, “What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes.” It is a thoughtful moral analysis of a sort that we too-seldom see in the press. Klay speaks of … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 5, 2025 by gdkrenz

The so-called “double-tap” – a terribly sanitizing word – attack on two stranded Venezuelans in the Caribbean continues to be front and center in the news, and now some members of Congress have had access to video of the attack. … Continue reading →

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A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz)

Posted on November 30, 2025 by gdkrenz

Thanksgiving is a few days past, but here’s a belated thanksgiving post — just before the end of the holiday weekend. To begin, here’s a nice post by Robert Reich from a few days ago: “Gratitude: Thanksgiving thoughts.” It has … Continue reading →

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State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz)

Posted on November 26, 2025 by gdkrenz

Ben Schwartz has an excellent piece in The Nation, “Trump’s Quest for Total Media Control.”  It lays out in concise fashion how the various strands of Trump’s attacks on media — from trying to get Jimmy Kimmel and others fired to … Continue reading →

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Terrorism and the White House (Gary Krenz)

Posted on November 17, 2025 by gdkrenz

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “terrorism” as “2. gen. A policy intended to strike with terror those against whom it is adopted; the employment of methods of intimidation; the fact of terrorizing or condition of being terrorized.” As definitions go, it’s … Continue reading →

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Shutdown Resolution: Debacle, Destiny, Deliverance?

Posted on November 10, 2025 by gdkrenz

Like many of us, I suspect, I am still reeling from the Democrats’ whiplash reversal on the shutdown, thanks to 8 Dems going rogue and siding with Republicans to fund the continuing resolution. The Rogue 8 were able to gain … Continue reading →

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No Excuses for Greed and Selfishness

Posted on November 4, 2025 by barbkrenz

On Morning Joe today, they were talking about news companies appeasing Trump.  As Mike Barnacle put it, “the blanket of fear” that President Trump has spread over everything, including the media, “is the largest story of our times.” Then Joe … Continue reading →

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No, Spkr Johnson: “No Kings” IS “Love America”

Posted on October 13, 2025 by gdkrenz

We Americans love to label things, no doubt. And labeling things can be important in politics. Labels can give us a shorthand, and they can serve as rallying cries. At this point, we can’t for instance any longer avoid calling … Continue reading →

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