(Edward Jajko, USA, 09/23/20 9:53 am)
My wife and I have been feeding birds in our backyard in Cupertino for 30+ years. We live in an Eichler, with immense store-front sized windows looking on the yard. Through the years, many birds have
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(Harry Papasotiriou, Greece, 09/23/20 4:24 am)
When the US presidency and the Senate were held by different parties, we
have the following data on presidential election year nominations to the
US Supreme Court throughout US history:
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(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 09/23/20 3:53 am)
I am totally befuddled by John Eipper's comments on my post of September 22nd: "Is the Deep State real? To believe so requires an almost theological faith in the power of the DS puppet maste
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(Henry Levin, USA, 09/23/20 3:34 am)
To answer John E's question, of course there is a "deep state" in terms of conserving our institutions and functioning as a nation.
The purpose of a state is to "conserve&qu
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(Boris Volodarsky, Austria, 09/22/20 4:26 pm)
On 21 September our esteemed editor asked me: "Do you believe the attacks on Navalny and the Skripals were botched on purpose? If so, what is the message that Putin (if he is ultimately responsi
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(Cameron Sawyer, Russia, 09/22/20 9:46 am)
Edward Jajko wrote on September 22nd:
"Wouldn't it confound all the Democrats and others who have put their feet--foot?--down over Trump's nominating a new Justice for the Supreme C
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(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 09/22/20 6:42 am)
Thanks to Boris Volodarsky (September 21st), I stand corrected on Navalny's position on Crimea and LGBT rights. Evidently I was looking at the wrong sources on these subjects. My apolo
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(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 09/22/20 3:43 am)
I understand why my excellent olive oil provider Eugenio Battaglia trivializes Putin's actions, whatever they may be. I tend to do the same, because I am really worried about what the big picture
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(Edward Jajko, USA, 09/22/20 3:26 am)
It won't happen, of course, but wouldn't it confound all the Democrats and others who have put their feet--foot?--down over Trump's nominating a new Justice for the Supreme Court if h
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(Boris Volodarsky, Austria, 09/21/20 4:00 pm)
I absolutely love humour and especially that of Eugenio Battaglia (21 September), with his far-fetched take on the Navalny poisoning.
The story in brief: After the assassinations of such promine
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