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Feb 242 min read
Explain Your Pride in the Progressive Track Record
By Bill Johnston According to the Pew Research Center chart below, Progressive voter turnout in 2020 was the highest of any political...
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Jan 313 min read
Trump's "Mandate"
By Paul Lenchner Presidents are not known for their modest sense of self-worth. It takes an ego of considerable size to believe that you...
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Oct 27, 202411 min read
The Population Bomb - Part III
A Serendipitous Last Chance By James Walker, Ph.D. A Brief Summary of Parts I and II In 1798, Thomas Malthus published a simple...
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Oct 5, 202412 min read
What's in the 2024 Democratic Party Platform?
By William (Bill) Johnston This article is a list of goals the Democratic Party intend to achieve in the future. As such, it does not...
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Oct 5, 20246 min read
What's in the 2024 Republican Party Platform?
By William (Bill) Johnston I wrote this article to highlight just the goals the Party was willing to put in writing. Candidates can...
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Sep 22, 20247 min read
The Population Bomb - Part II
The Club of Rome Sounds the Doomsday Alarm By James Walker, Ph.D. A brief review of Part I The Industrial Revolution, beginning in the...
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Sep 17, 20246 min read
The Population Bomb - Part I
By James Walker, Ph.D. This is the first of three articles to examine the human population: its development, outlook, and consequences....
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Sep 17, 20244 min read
The Transformation and Degradation of a Formerly Grand Party
By Paul Lenchner In its 170-year history, the Republican Party has had some glorious chapters. It has elected consequential presidents...
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Aug 18, 20248 min read
What exactly is the Republican Project 2025?
By William Johnston It's a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for turning America into a fascist police state by purging civil servants and...
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Jun 28, 20244 min read
"Follow the Money"
By Bill Johnston We have all heard the advice "follow the money" to understand a situation better. In this election year, we may gain...
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Jun 22, 20244 min read
Bernie, Donald, and Joe, and the Faces of American Populism
By Paul Lenchner Polls taken during the 2016 presidential campaign revealed a finding that surprised many observers. According to the...
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Jun 22, 20248 min read
What's It To Me
By James Walker, Ph.D. "Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful to acknowledge that." ...
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Jun 22, 20245 min read
Waiting For Supreme Court Opinions
By Janette Ansolabehere We are approaching the final release of several major Supreme Court cases, among which are cases that could...
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May 23, 20245 min read
Emergency of Vector-Borne Diseases in the New Texas
By Hugh Roddy, MD Introduction Human immigration, poverty, and climate change are associated with emerging neglected tropical diseases...
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Mar 30, 20243 min read
What's Not to Like About President Biden's Job Performance So Far?
By Jim Walker, Ph.D. Joe Biden has an image problem. People are concerned about his age. He would be 86 years old by the end of a second...
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Mar 30, 20244 min read
Politics Aside
By Rose Ann Goodwin Do you think if we never asked one another about our politics, if we just kept it to ourselves, that we would get...
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Mar 30, 20244 min read
Redistricting: A Madisonian Challenge
By Paul Lenchner In arguing for the ratification of the Constitution in the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote, “If men were angels,...
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Mar 30, 20243 min read
Older Drivers
By Bill Johnston The Journal of the American Medical Association published on December 18, 2023 an article entitled “Driving Impairment...
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Mar 8, 20244 min read
Our Pro-Business State
By Paul Lenchner Texas is a pro-business state. Elected officials regularly tout our economy. So do leaders in the business community...
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Feb 16, 20246 min read
Our two Medicare choices: Medicare and Advantage
By William Johnston Introduction In December 2023, the New England Journal of Medicine published an insightful paper about the two...
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