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  • Living with PTSD One Day at a Time – a book review

    If combat or abuse of any kind, mental or physical, has traumatized you, I’m suggesting you read this memoir, even if it is the only one you real in your life. If you hate to read, then listen to the audiobook. Geeze, no excuses! You may also want to read this memoir if you know…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    February 21, 2022
    about authors, about books, book reviews, book reviews, heroes, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, terrorism, Uncategorized, war on terror, crime, PTSD
    A True Story, Al-Shabaab terrorists, living with PTSD, Meyli Chapin, SAS operator Christian Craighead, surviving with PTSD, Terrorist Attack Girl, trapped in Nairobi.
  • Tennessee: “Instead of Raging Over MAUS, Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban”

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Whitney Kimball Coe, director of national programs for the Center for Rural Strategies, advises those who are outraged about the removal of MAUS from the eighth grade curriculum by the McMinn County School Board to support those in the South and rural areas who agree with them, instead…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    February 17, 2022
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  • A Site That Unmasks the Leading Anti-Vaxxers

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The New York Times recently wrote about Twitter’s suspension of the personal (not the official) account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Twitter applied its rule of “five strikes and you’re out” because she posted misinformation about COVID and vaccines that could cause harm to others. Among other things,…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    February 13, 2022
    Lloyd Lofthouse
  • Reader: The Founding Fathers Loathed the Filibuster

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A reader who identifies as Quickwrit posted the following comment about the filibuster. For most of our history, debates in the Senate could be used to delay consideration of a bill, even to kill it. But the filibuster was not written into law until 1917. Our Founding Fathers…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    February 1, 2022
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  • Peter Greene on the Diversification of the Koch(topus) Brand

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene explains how the Koch machine is creating new brands to hide its identity from the unsuspecting. The billionaires Charles and his late brother David were infamous for funneling Dark Money through front groups whose names sounded innocuous or inspiring. Now Charles Koch is reaching out to…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    January 25, 2022
    Lloyd Lofthouse
  • Robert Kuttner: Look Up!

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect reviews the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up! “Appreciate the brilliance of the season’s most profound, category-busting movie.” Don’t Look Up is described as a parody of Trumpism and climate denial. It is elegantly that. But more importantly, the movie is a dead-on…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    January 22, 2022
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  • This Is What Happened on January 6, 2021

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Since there is now a deep partisan divide over what happened on January 6, it’s helpful to remember that there is extensive video footage of the events. Some footage was taken by the media, some by video cameras installed in the Capitol, some by police body cameras, and…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    January 6, 2022
    Lloyd Lofthouse
  • Holding Parents Accountable When Their Children Kill

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This very important story appeared in the Washington Post. She had seen her grandson’s red, spiral-bound notebook before that night, but now, as Catherine O’Connor sifted through its pages for the first time, what she read astonished her. “School Shootings,” Joshua O’Connor had titled the first page, above…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    December 17, 2021
    Lloyd Lofthouse
  • Capital & Main: The Story of an Unlikely Alliance

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In this article, Marcus Baram of Capital & Main describes a surprising alliance between a veteran labor organizer and his chief nemesis, a man who was a master of union-busting. He begins: They were certainly an odd couple, the unlikeliest of allies: the union organizer and the notorious union…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    December 16, 2021
    Lloyd Lofthouse
  • Rittenhouse Benefitted from a Well-Funded Defense Team

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: We have had some animated discussion on this blog about whether the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was “fair,” since he walks away a free man despite murdering two men and maiming a third. Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University and a contributing columnist to the Washington…

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    November 22, 2021
    Lloyd Lofthouse
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