by Scott Feldstein | Sunday, February 20, 2022 | politics
I turned on the radio in my car the other day and I heard people talking about a study on implicit bias. The study clearly showed that anti-black prejudice was partly to blame for opposition to Obamacare. They researchers knew this because specific tenets of the bill...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, February 5, 2022 | politics, rants
Whoopi Goldberg really stepped in it on The View earlier this week when she said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather about “man’s inhumanity to man.” Let’s establish right off the bat–she is wrong. More on that in a minute. What could she be thinking?...
by Scott Feldstein | Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | politics, rants
American democracy, that is. I honestly think it’s very likely over. We are sliding–in slow motion but inexorably–toward authoritarianism. We are drifting toward a future America where we no longer have elections. In their place, we will have “elections.” Kind of like...
by Scott Feldstein | Thursday, December 2, 2021 | politics, rants
It was with some satisfaction that I watched Chris Hayes on tv earlier this evening explain how he has now come to the same conclusion that I arrived at long ago: the pro-life movement isn’t really about “life” as its adherents say, but rather about controlling...
by Scott Feldstein | Sunday, November 28, 2021 | politics, rants
Something is wrong with Americans. Many of them, anyway. I’m not even going to get into the Q-anon nuts, even though some people estimate that they may comprise as many as 25% of Trump supporters. No, I’m talking about the fifty million people who believe the 2020...
by Scott Feldstein | Friday, November 19, 2021 | politics, rants
Seemingly everyone expected he would be acquitted, and now he has been. Was it the right verdict? Maybe. Within the narrow purview of whether Rittenhouse could conceivably claim self defense, maybe. But that only shows that our self defense laws themselves are deeply...
