Books, movies and music: Neil Young’s Silver & Gold album is well worth a listen…
We're not just about news here at the office. Here's an interesting review: https://classicrockreview.wordpress.com/category/neil-young-silver-and-gold/
From our history section: The Founding Fathers would have loathed the idea of the marketing ploy that became the Pledge of Allegiance (the history of which most Americans know nothing about)…
Interesting reads here: https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/national-traditions/pledge-allegiance.htm https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2018/11/the-founding-fathers-never-pledged-allegiance-to-the-flag.html From NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/09/11/160936717/politics-the-pledge-and-a-peculiar-history Finally: https://michaelbrant.com/2019/09/4-reasons-i-dont-say-the-pledge-of-allegiance-and-you-shouldnt-either/
From the “Gee, what could go wrong?” department: Idaho considering allowing armed groups to protest and parade around in public…
More here, from the Idaho Capital Sun: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/02/16/bill-removing-ban-on-groups-parading-in-public-with-guns-heads-to-idaho-house-of-representatives/?
Hypocrisy alert: Republicans who opposed racial justice protests don’t mind dangerous anti-vaxxer trucker protests…
More here, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/18/republicans-trucker-convoys-coronavirus-covid-mandates?
President Biden’s coronavirus strategy is paying off and the economy is doing well so right-wing media, in an attempt to create drama, pivots to nothingburger story about Trump-instigated “spying” investigation by John Durham…
Trump and his attorney general, William Barr, were hoping Durham would come up with something. Instead, Durham is coming up empty-handed. More here from Press...
The Founding Fathers never envisioned there would be gun nuts or that so many would ignore the “well-regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment…
More here, from ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee-bill-designate-gun-owners-law-enforcement/story?id=82757071