Author: ProfJerry

Martin Longman makes the case for nominating Amy Klobuchar to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Sounds like something worth exploring.

Amy Klobuchar for the Supreme Court

Over at Washington Monthly Nancy LeTourneau refers to Julian Zeilzer, who explains how the Republicans got into the mess they’re in:

Going back to Reagan’s embrace of the Moral Majority, the racism Lee Atwater infused into George H.W. Bush’s presidential campaign and the fact that it was McCain who chose Palin to be his running mate in 2008, Zeilzer demonstrates how GOP presidential candidates laid the groundwork for what is happening today.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_01/the_insanity_started_a_long_ti059404.php

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A grand jury has indicted two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos alleging Planned Parenthood illegally sold fetal tissue to researchers for a profit, and said the abortion provider committed no wrong.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/center-for-medical-progress-indicted

Over at Washington Monthly D.R. Tucker points out that the Supreme Court has a lot of apologizing to do and most recently for foisting upon us the pernicious notion that money = speech.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_01/bucking_the_trends059385.php

Here are a few paragraphs from Thomas Friedman’s latest column. In my opinion, he’s “spot on.”

What doesn’t the Bush crowd get? It’s this: We don’t have a “gasoline price problem.” We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It is intensifying global warming, creating runaway global demand for oil and gas, weakening our currency by shifting huge amounts of dollars abroad to pay for oil imports, widening “energy poverty” across Africa, destroying plants and animals at record rates and fostering ever-stronger petro-dictatorships in Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.

Ditto for us. Our cure is not cheaper gasoline, but a clean energy system. And the key to building that is to keep the price of gasoline and coal — our crack — higher, not lower, so consumers are moved to break their addiction to these dirty fuels and inventors are moved to create clean alternatives.

Let’s hope the next administration is able to begin to pull us out of our addiction.

JDM

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