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  1. Fantine

    How Does Dismantling LBJ's Great Society Make America Great Again? (Ans. It doesn't.)

    There isn't a person around us who has not benefited significantly from the programs instituted by Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's and passed at great personal cost. These programs: Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Headstart, Higher Education Act (Pell Grants, student...
  2. Fantine

    The shrewdly drawn-up big ugly bill...

    I was--and am--very opposed to the big ugly bill. Throwing 15-20 million off Medicaid is immoral. Ending energy tax credits--and in the Senate, actually putting on a surcharge, will exacerbate climactic disasters, air pollution, and hurt farmers through droughts and temperature differences...
  3. Fantine

    RIP: Former Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)

    Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was murdered and son partially paralyzed by Long Island Railroad gunman Colin Ferguson in 1993, passed away last week. She was a personal hero to me. Although we had moved to St. Louis before the LIRR massacre, we had lived a few blocks away from the McCarthys...
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    Braidwood Mgt. vs. Kennedy

    Three liberal and three conservative justices got together to make the correct decision in this case. From AI: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Kennedy v. Braidwood with a decision authored by Justice Kavanaugh and joined by Justices Roberts, Sotomayor, Kaga, Barrett and Jackson. Justice...
  5. Fantine

    Trump-enomics

    Just saw this on Yahoo finance. Stocks have been rising, but it does not sound as if the economy is that healthy right now. Trump's solution is to announce who he is nominating to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Fed as soon as he can. While Powell can't be pushed out until his term ends...
  6. Fantine

    Lawrence O'Donnell addresses the elephant in the living room

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawrence-donald-trump-proves-he-s-the-stupidest-man-in-the-situation-room/vi-AA1GZUqK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=25cfb7032fe8448ebd44546e60d6c524&ei=21#details It's not "new" news, but it's something that needs to be talked about much more than it is. In...
  7. Fantine

    College Commencements Playing Taps instead of Pomp and Circumstance?

    It's the worst job market for college graduates in many decades, and Paul Krugman, Noblel winning economist, speculates on the reasons. He doesn't blame AI, although he thinks that could be a threat in the future. But the reasons he gives are: An economy frozen in uncertainty, due to off again...
  8. Fantine

    What if Trump held a press briefing and nobody came?

    I had the misfortune of watchig one this morning. Reporters would ask questions, and he would start extemporaneously inventing the most bizarre and outrageous scenarios, usually ending with self-praise because he saw himself as so much smarter than the person he was criticizing. After two or...
  9. Fantine

    NYC Comptroller Arrested by ICE for accompanying immigrants

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-comptroller-brad-lander-arrested-and-released-by-ice-agents/ar-AA1GTSzh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=74bd7bfbad644f4d8a37ef23173163fe&ei=30 In short: Landers, seeing that immigrants were called to hearings, learning the cases against them were dismissed...
  10. Fantine

    Notes from Trump's trenches

    To get the real story about what's happening in LA, listen to Jimmy Kimmel's monologue on June 10th. He lives in Los Angeles as do the hundreds in his studio audience and his staff. They showed pictures all over LA of people shopping, eating at street vendors, lining up for Disney movies and...
  11. Fantine

    Faux-pro-life president signs executive order to lower prices for IVF and make it more accessible...

    Did it ever occur to you how many embryos are created and never implanted? "Limbo" was just a pre-Vatican II concept for many years, but the thousands of unharvested embryos frozen throughout the country have given "limbo" a new meaning.
  12. Fantine

    Pope Leo's Virtual Event at White Sox Stadium, conflicting with Trump's military parade, sells out within hours,

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-leo-sells-out-us-event-clashing-with-parade-on-trump-s-birthday/ar-AA1GhfxM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a6235ec89e6b44d38681c33c676a02fa&ei=19 It will also be livestreamed. It seems as if every time I open Facebook I see 'reels' of Pope Leo, catching...
  13. Fantine

    The Supreme Court Immunity Decision

    So now, to deflect from his own prodigiously dishonest, profiteering behavior, the president who has only attended twelve press briefings in 136 days in office wants to go after Joe Biden for auto-pen pardons. Biggest question: Does he think "immunity" only applies to him? If Joe Biden wasn't...
  14. Fantine

    Musk's Government Slashing Took Place When He Was Under the Influence of Ketamine, Ecstasy, Adderall, and More

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-using-drugs-far-132744534.html The buck should stop with the president, who gave him sweeping powers with no accountability. (I guess he didn't become a federal employee because he couldn't pass the drug tests.) If only we could undo all the damage he's done...
  15. Fantine

    You'd Better "Stop Believin'" Now

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/see-it-trump-posts-bizarre-video-of-himself-playing-journey-s-don-t-stop-believing/ar-AA1EZXZU?ocid=BingNewsSerp Presidential? Definitely not. Questionable Sanity? Sure seems like it to me. Trump's head superimposed on Journey members' bodies, performing the...
  16. Fantine

    "Competitive Authoritarianism--" the latest threat to democracy and freedom in the United States

    https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-14-2025 The article goes on to enumerate the ways DJT's authoritarian regime is threatening our society. More examples of "deadly weaponized" government follow. Conservatives must decide if it is sensible--or even sane--to place so much...
  17. Fantine

    Are All the Answers in the Bible? Does Your Pastor Know All the Answers? Here's a Pope Who Doesn't

    Looking for inspiration before evening prayer? I am. I called my friend in California whose daughter had a dissected aorta last Mother's Day and only survived three days after surgery. She didn't answer the phone, and I left a message: "I'm thinking of you. I love you. I loved _________. I'm...
  18. Fantine

    Biden's Open Borders

    https://infographicsite.com/infographic/deportations-under-us-presidents-statistics/ Hmm...That mean that in the first two years of his administration Biden deported 700,000 more people than Trump did in four years. Let's average that out. Trump: 518,302 per year Biden: 1,404,473 per year As...
  19. Fantine

    Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were black or mulatto African/Caribbean in New Orleans

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/opinion-is-the-new-american-pope-black-a-professor-breaks-it-down/ar-AA1Etu6r?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=dad92b6cc8cc48a9a74ed23fc3ad10b6&ei=8 Like many Americans, he represents America's rich diversity--racially and ethnically. And, like most Americans of...
  20. Fantine

    Can the Francis factor work twice?

    I remember so vividly Speaker John Boehner's leaving Congress the day after Pope Francis spoke in 2015. He was Catholic, and I believed that his encounter with the Pope made him question many (if not most) of the causes he was working for in Congress. Biden, who was VP at the time, also seemed...
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