- This week’s note in ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Politifact, checking out President Trump’s claim that his tax proposal would not benefit him personally.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors takes a quick, devastating look at the Trump tax plan.
- Green Eagle sees a pattern in how my President deals with national disaster.
- PZ Myers looks to a long ago accident witnessed by private citizen Donald Trump, and gains for us insight into the reaction of now President Trump and of the GOP to Puerto Rico.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reviews the relief progress made by my President.
- At The Moderate Voice Dorian de Wind, Military Affairs Columnist, points to two recent cases to contrast leadership approaches to racism.
- The Intersection of Madness and Reality has a message for “so-called patriots” about black people.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives explains why he believes NFL players have the right to kneel during the anthem, but are wrong to do it.
- Jonathan Bernstein considers the kneeling controversy and is bothered by how many of us accept the “anti-democratic and false equivalence of patriotism and the military.”
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz explains that NFL protests aren’t about a flag, an anthem, or the military. He speculates on whether conservatives already know this.
- Max’s Dad creatively rants about kneeling to the anthem.
- At The Onion, Facebook vows not to hand over to the government any users’ medical records.
- T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, marshals the strongest case against voter fraud. Sadly, he relies on the thoroughly discredited Hans von Spakovsky to make his case.
In fact, in person voter fraud happens so rarely that the most massive search project was able to find only 120 cases out of millions of ballots cast. What T. Paine denies is the actual purpose of voter suppression. It is to keep out those who do not drive and so do not carry photo ID. The fact that such folks are more likely to vote against wealthy conservatives is just a regrettable side effect.
T. Paine is an old and valued friend. He is a conservative who is frequently wrong on the issues. But hey, nobody’s perfect.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on physiological reactions to surprise. I suspect each headline since January provides new research material.
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