Amazing things happen when great minds get together. The collective knowledge about Climate Change among Republicans in power is very edifying. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: The new Tea Party GOP have signaled their new approach to science. Speaker John Boehner has said that the threat of CO2 was not real. Perhaps he sees … Read more
Yesterday saw an ominous election win for Democrat Kathy Hochul in the upstate District 26 special election. This, in a district where rock-ribbed conservatives become flaming socialists when the subject is Medicare, is the apocalypse, for sure. No Rapture sightings as yet.
Running around NY it’s nice to bump into people you know. Horace Greeley was one of the most important people in the 19th Century. Founder and powerful editor of the NY Tribune, taking it from the dawn of journalism in the US, creating a dynamic anti-slavery vessel. He was a great Radical Republican (until he … Read more
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was seized by Hamas in June, 2009 and dragged, wounded, into Gaza where he has languished ever since. International voices have called out for his release. Negotiations for a prisoner exchange by Israel and the Gaza leadership are apparently stuck. Cannaday Chapman: “When making this piece I wanted to emphasize … Read more
