Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]
Archive for July 14th, 2021
GOP governor forces students to mingle with infected people
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (photo), a Republican, just approved a law prohibiting that state’s public schools and universities from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations (see story here). There’s a case to be made. Making people get vaccinations is intrusive. While that’s not exactly what bus[...]
Why didn’t Lincoln get a Nobel Prize for his Gettysburg address?
One reason is because Nobel Prizes didn’t exist then. They were created by a will that Alfred Nobel signed on Nov. 27, 1895; came into being when the will was officially approved by Norwegian authorities on April 26, 1897; and weren’t awarded until 1901 (read history here). The recipient[...]
No “hotline” to Beijing?
“The Biden administration is examining the possibility of setting up an emergency hotline with the Chinese government similar to the so-called ‘red phone’ established between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, which allowed for direct communication with the Kr[...]
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