Questions

Questions

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

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The government now wants to dismantle the DOE and move education to the states. Is there any evidence at all that local officials will do any better? Are the mayors, councils, and education boards of higher quality?

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Why is it that violent, destructive demonstrators are tolerated, and furious, red-faced dads at school boards are not?

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Is vandalism really a free speech question?

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In every public appearance, Kamala Harris has seemed impaired. Yet she was nominated for president and got 75 million votes. Less impressive were her electoral college results but still a lot of votes for an impaired candidate. And Biden was demented. How could the people vote for them? How could a serious party nominate them? And what does that say about their opinion of the American system of government?

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Ukraine has agreed to a peace conference. "The ball is in Putin's court." In the court of a KGB killer who has invaded his neighbor, killed tens of thousands, and initiated a world-threatening conflict. Are we, and the Ukraine, to rely on the better angels of his nature?

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Israel was created out of the British Mandate by vote of the United Nations. They are responsible for this mess, so, are they hard at work on the problem?

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What are the aims of the anti-Israel demonstrators? What do they expect will happen to Israel--and their 200 nukes? Or is this just an anti-US tantrum and self-gratification?

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Why does the nation have to put up with disruptive, destructive foreign nationals in the country?

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We seem to be encouraging children to perform better than the established low norms. Is that in opposition to the new Law of Equity?" Shouldn't achieving the norm be the ideal?