When Florida’s DeSantis Coughs, Arkansas’s Sanders Sneezes

COVID-19 Education Elections Future Impunity Legislation Politics

            Little Rock       Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis in a Twitter technical meltdown has finally announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president.  The kowtowing Republican supermajority in the Florida legislature has gone out of their way to pass wild and wooly legislation to establish his ultra-conservative bonafides.  Less well known nationally has been the …

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What are Some Politicians Thinking These Days?

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            New Orleans      In what still seems the political “age of Trump,” probably the wrong question to ask, is “what are they thinking?”  With misinformation, boundless conspiracies, and many feeling free to talk about scuttling elections and civil war, I’m probably out of line even wondering.  Nonetheless, even acknowledging that the American political lists …

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