Thursday, March 9, 2017

Links for 03/09/17

Links for 03/09/17: In the era of fake news, it is always worthwhile to ask oneself if what you are hearing corresponds to reality. So, for example, if President Trump tweets "the moon is made of cheese" we sho...

MGB:_Williams seems to put his politics before his vocation and its an ugly politics where truth takes a back seat to what is seen as winning. In reality, becoming a purveyor of non-sense is only useful in scamming those of your supporters who are proudly ignorant, like our President.

The Republican war on government unions is waged for entirely partisan reasons. There is no ideological reason to do so. Again, its about winning. It would have been better for the GOP to find issues of common agreement, as many of the Union guys I knew in the federal service were die hard, anti-Obama, Republicans.

The Vox link was to the Post. The right wing does not hate all universities. They love the ones that teach the truth as they see it without question, like Ave Maria and Liberty and the rest. Thankfully, Loras College did not fit the right wing model.


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