Seeds of the fiasco were planted in the 2020 Democratic primaries. We had some strong candidates: Sanders, Warren, Klobacher, Buttiegieg. They all quickly folded after Biden won the black vote in the South Carolina primary.
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Good news from PA – I Think
Greetings from Altoona, PA. I arrived here Sunday, and I’ve been canvassing for Kamala Harris all this week, chronicling my adventures on YouTube. I’ve knocked on the doors of many registered Democrats. I work from 3 pm to 6 pm, so many people aren’t at home. But of the couple dozen or so I’ve spoken […]
The Campus Protests: Repugnant but Necessary
I’m a long-time mainstream moderate with rather unoriginal views about the Israel-Palestine conflict. For many years I didn’t even care about it – I’m Jewish, but the conflict seemed hopeless. Then I went to Israel and the West Bank in 2012 and spent about two years there on and off, and came out of it […]
Golden Venture: Marking 30 Years
At 2 a.m. June 6, 1993 a small cargo ship ran into a sandbar not far from a beach at the mouth of New York harbor. Then the passengers started to jump off. They plunged into the rolling waves, some clinging to plastic bags containing all their possessions. One after another they jumped. Soon two […]