The once iconic street of Manhattan has become the victim of locked wooden fencing masking huge empty spaces. Some of these spaces were beautiful apartment buildings. It may have been 217 Park Avenue where many theater people lived. It was a beautiful building that is now torn down and empty. However, why not turn the …
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Trump threatens a “whole civilization will die tonight.”
This letter from Robert Reich says it all. No one could say it better. “Friends. I don’t know how better to put this than to say Trump’s threat this morning to “wipe out a whole civilization” of Iran puts America into a new immoral universe. He is directly threatening a war crime. And every one …
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Thrive and Survive
A city of empty stores looks isolated. Our New York City is filled with empty storefronts. Part of the problem is that unless they are specialty stores, they are not particularly viable in this day and age of online shopping. The other problem is the structure of commercial real estate laws and regulations. We need …
War By Any Other Name
Recently, Trump reported that “ending”wrapping” the war was all in his mind. Well, he better start wrapping. His war has cost Americans billions – add it to the cost of groceries. American children will soon go hungry because of Trump’s failure to end his own pointless war. Isn’t there some way a president can be …
Public Money Should Not Be Available For Private Presidential Whim
“Judge Richard Leon wrote that Trump can’t build the [White House] ballroom without authorization from Congress.” Trump should be forced to use his own funds that he and his family have made while in office to rebuild the portion of the White House that was destroyed by him. If the ballroom needed rebuilding or wasn’t …
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Plug the Rat Hole
Trump has alienated America’s friends and supporters, destroyed our relationship with NATO and the rest of the world. If Trump was not such a psychopath we would not be involved in a Middle Eastern War for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Obama made a perfectly acceptable deal with the Government of Iran with the Ayatollah and …
The Thieves Among Us
Why should we worry about people with insider information profiting in the stock market, futures markets, or even crypto-powered predictions markets? For one thing, it’s unfair. It hurts average investors while increasing the wealth of certain people who know, for example, what Trump is about to do (including Trump and members of his family). We …
Farewell, My Love. Dearest of All, Farewell…
There’s something wrong with America today that has enabled us to elect someone who committed treason against the United States. Does it not seem strange to Americans that, despite charges against him, Trump has nonetheless been elected President of the United States of America? Now, is it also not strange that a man who has …
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Is War Destiny or Destruction?
Does the president of the United States of America have the right to declare war or to start wars against any country which he decides is an enemy of America? Does the congress of the United States have something to say about whether the country goes to war or not? Should we not, as a …
National Emergency
“We are in a moment of crisis. I fear for this body, I fear for this institution, I fear for our Constitution, but I still have faith in the people. We can stop this erosion of our constitutional norms, we can stop this democratic backsliding, we can protect our rights and our values, but more …