Politicians focusing on emissions during climate disasters are playing a deadly con game, whether they know it or not.

Last year, when California’s fire season was destroying homes and lives again, Governor Gavin Newsom responded by banning the sale of all new gas-powered cars by 2035.

This year, when parts of Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg washed away, whole communities flooded to the point of destruction, EU President Ursula von der Leyen announced a proposal for a 55% emissions reduction by 2030, and also potentially banning the sale of new gas cars by 2035. …

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The Alabama abortion ban made headlines in 2019 as the strictest abortion ban at the time. House Bill 314 made abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, and foresaw prison sentences for women who terminated their pregnancies, as well as the doctors who performed the procedures (up to 99 years of imprisonment!). The Alabama abortion ban allows abortion to be performed only in cases when either the mother’s or the child’s life are endangered during pregnancy.

An additional reason Alabama caused outrage was its senate. There were 35 senators, out of which only four were women (none of…

I would not have said I was prejudiced, certainly not against people who are poor. I’ve been poor myself, and I did not see my lack of resources as being indicative of shortcomings in my character. I would not have said my low net worth was reflective of my low worth as a person.

When my financial situation improved, I continued to believe that poor people, in general, were the products of a number of misfortunes — the lack of inherited wealth, certainly, but also the circumstances of their inherited social class, their upbringing, their culture, and untold other influences…

Republicans are better at politics. It’s not even a contest. They’re better at dividing and conquering their rivals when they’re in power. And when Republicans are in the minority, they’re better at obstructing the Democrats’ agenda. They’re better at appealing to and mobilizing their base. They’re better at closing rank and voting in lockstep when it comes to their core priorities as a party. Most importantly, they’re better at creating a long-term strategy and seeing it through to the end.

We saw the culmination of that strategy this week when the Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 ruling declaring Texas’s…

Do you know what the official national language of the United States is?

There is none.

That’s right. We have no official national language.

Now some folks have told me in the past, “Well, English is the unofficial national language.”

Right, so that means it’s not the official national language. And, yes, it’s true that some 78 percent of the U.S. population do exclusively speak English at home. About 230 million people. Impressive! So, admittedly, that does make English the sort of de facto national language of these quasi-United States. But it’s not the official national language.

Because we don’t…

I admit it. I look at the overloaded hospitals, read the testimony of overworked health care workers, see the spiking case- and death-counts, and I find myself angry at people who won’t get vaccinated.

It’s hard not to be angry, especially when you see people who reject the assurances about vaccine safety but conduct uncontrolled experiments on themselves using livestock medicine, based on conspiratorial social media threads.

https://www.dailyposter.com/the-corporate-deterrent-to-more-vaccinations/

But vaccine refusal, hesitancy and denial are complex. …

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Late Thursday night in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) moratorium on evictions, ruling the public health agency exceeded its authority. The court’s decision to overturn the federal eviction moratorium, with as many as 6.5 million households on the verge of eviction, occurred during what is known as the court’s “shadow docket.”

For those unfamiliar with this area of SCOTUS activities and why this decision is problematic, the ACLU’s David Cole wrote about the dangers of the shadow docket in a Washington Post opinion piece last August:

[I]n a…

If police and prisons made us safer, the United States would be the safest country in the world. We lock up more folks than any other country, including many of those the State Department and American human rights groups routinely denounce as “authoritarian.” If US police were an army, it would be the third-largest in the world based on spending.

Yet, in terms of crime, the United States is considerably worse off than most high-income countries. We’re nearly tied with Iraq and Ukraine on composite rankings of crime.

In the heat of the uprising over the police murder of George…