Fsrcoin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1455 )

• Israel and Palestinians: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”

  

  Congressional Republicans shamed themselves (yet more) by inviting a mass murderer, Netanyahu, to address the chamber, giving him rapturous applause. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ever Viler and Sicker

  

  Columnist Thomas Friedman says Democrats should quit labelling Trump and company “weird.” Recalling Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” making Trumpers... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Coming of Age in American Poverty

  

  I’ve been extremely lucky in life. And I’m so tired of hearing that independent and charter schools “drain” resources from public education. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Frank

  

  You must be shocked to hear from me. Surely knowing I’ve never believed in you.Never asked you for anything before. Not even when I struggled to get a gal.I’m... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Right To Be An Asshole

  

  A local person, Troy Kelly, 19, was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, and detained on charges of threatening the President, a federal crime. He faces fiv... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Immigration, Crime, Politics, and Lies

  

  On May 14, 1938, Lotte Dreyfuss, 17, a Jewish refugee traveling alone from Nazi Germany, stood on a ship’s deck in New York harbor greeted by the Statue of... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thank You, President Biden

  

  Nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving it.Faced with a great choice between what he wanted to do, and the right thing to do, he did the right... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming End of America

  

  We face the end of America — the America I’ve so profoundly loved. I will be shattered.Through past episodes of mob madness, always in the broader population... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• War of the Gods in Mexico

  

  The AP story began, “The Gods must be angry — or just laughing.”Mexican authorities have ordered removal of a 10-foot statue of Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea,... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Shooting’s Victim: America

  

  America can’t seem to catch a break. Rather, event after event, without respite, piles on to doom us. The shooting just the latest coffin nail, driving the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• To Quit, Or Not To Quit

  

  , that is the question.Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous kvetching,Or to take arms against that sea of doubters,And b... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• World Election Roundup — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  

  In 2016, British Prime Minister David Cameron thought to lance the Euroscepticism boil once and for all, with a referendum on continued European Union... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden’s Candidacy: Where Things Stand

  

  President Biden rules out dropping out. Many Democratic Party poohbahs have been circling the wagons around him. As though there’s no option to change course.... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Charmaghz: Aiding Education in Afghanistan

  

  Do you have difficulty deciding on charities to support?It’s actually, I’ve found, a tough challenge. So many worthy organizations around. Or are there? Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court, Presidential Immunity, and the Implacable Tide

  

  “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” said my last posting, about the presidential debate, quoting Shakespeare. The debate debacle one more episode in what... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Debate Debacle: Biden Should Withdraw

  

  Watching the debate, I thought that if I were a blank slate, without background knowledge and understanding, I’d vote for Trump. Tragically, that does largely... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Election and the Media

  

  Responsible mainstream media are a last line of defense against a firestorm of craziness engulfing us. But not much of a defense, it seems. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Plot Against America”

  

  That’s the title of a Philip Roth novel, an “alternative history” imagining us going fascist in the 1940s. It’s perhaps a more serious book than The Breast,... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Earthrise

  

  William Anders died June 7, at 90, when a plane he was piloting crashed. He was the astronaut responsible for probably the most famous photograph of all time:... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Deglobalization

  

  (This, slightly edited, was a commentary recently published in the Albany Times-Union)Artificial intelligence. Climate change. Gaza and Ukraine wars. All Big... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY