Modern Age: “What Character from Creative Literature Would Be The Best Choice For President?”

by | Nov 1, 2020 |

Modern Age is pleased to offer some relief that nonetheless has a measure of relevance. We asked some twenty of our friends and contributors to weigh in on the best choice for president—but not the best choice on the ballot this November. Instead, we asked them to choose the best character from all of creative literature for the role. The result, we hope, is a symposium that’s diverting and amusing, but that may also reveal something valuable about the nature of presidential leadership and the politics of a free society. It certainly reveals some underlying tendencies in conservative and...

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Judge Says She Is “Concerned” Detective May Have Lied To Get Breonna Taylor Search Warrant

by | Oct 2, 2020 |

Cops Lie - Judge concerned LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville judge who signed a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home that ultimately led to her death said Thursday she is concerned that the detective may have lied to obtain the warrant. But Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw told The Courier Journal that she will defer to the FBI, which has been investigating the search warrant application for Taylor's apartment that led to the fatal raid. The Courier Journal asked Shaw if she intended to demand that Detective Joshua Jaynes show why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for swearing in an...

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Study Shows Vitamin D Supplement Protects Against Covid-19

by | Sep 28, 2020 |

From Genetic And Engineering News "According to Holick, the newly reported study provides a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve the body’s ability to fight the coronavirus and reduce the adverse clinical outcomes of COVID-19, including requiring ventilator support, and overactive immune response leading to cytokine storm and death. “Because vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is so widespread in children and adults in the United States and worldwide, especially in the winter months, it is prudent for everyone to take a vitamin D supplement to reduce the risk of being infected...

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Aaron Mate vs Josh Rogin On The War In Syria

by | Sep 27, 2020 |

Aaron Mate takes on Josh Rogin. Aaron links the war on Syria to the war for Al-Qaeda. "Joe Biden: "Our allies were our largest problem in Syria... They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad. Except that the people who were being supplied were... Al-Qaeda & the extremist elements of jihadis..." The thread role is here https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1309904455459049473  

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More Support For Biden

by | Sep 25, 2020 |

From Bush Republicans and the national security state. The Democrats are now the party that represents the interests of the NSC, Wall St., corporate America, Hollywood and the corporate press. Yet, Trump may still win. A bipartisan group of 489 former national security officials have endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The group, National Security Leaders for Biden, said that President Trump “has demonstrated he is not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office” and “cannot rise to meet challenges large or small.” “Thanks to his disdainful attitude and his failures,...

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Re: Oh Yeah, That Oughta Help

by | Sep 23, 2020 |

Biden is delighted to get support from Cindy McCain - that should motivate the democrats progressive base. After all, McCain was such an honorable man that lived by a code "country first". Now McCain is the new democrat hero - right along side George Bush. People forget how "honorable" McCain was during the Saving and Loan scandal of 1980's. From the Phoenix New Times November 29, 1989 McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such...

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The Endless Fantasy Of American Power

by | Sep 21, 2020 |

"Saving the United States’ soul will require an honest reckoning with post–Cold War U.S. foreign policy and, above all, with the reckless misuse of military power that forms its abiding theme." Andrew Bacevich at Foreign Affairs: In this year’s presidential election campaign, candidates have largely sidestepped the role of armed force as an instrument of U.S. policy. The United States remains the world’s preeminent and most active military power, but Republicans and Democrats find other things to talk about. Ever since the end of the Cold War, successive administrations have enthusiastically...

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