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SCOTUS & NRA - The National Rifle Association's decades-long campaign against even the most basic and popular firearm regulations scored another victory Thursday when the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key New York state gun control law, a ruling that could spell doom for similar statutes across the country.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Pain at the pump is national and international news and there are all sorts of solutions circulating the real world and the metaverse. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Call it, for lack of a better phrase, the “Gas Price Derangement Syndrome.”

JAN 6 COMMITTEE - The bipartisan congressional commission investigating the January 6 coup attempt has found strong evidence that Donald Trump is a criminal.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - President Joe Biden, it might be argued, was elected for one reason and one reason only: his name was NOT Donald Trump. 

HE VIEW FROM HERE - At the conclusion of the Tuesday, June 20, 2022 January 6^th Committee’s presentation, Co-chairperson Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to testify live before the cameras. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is shameful and unconscionable that this country has allowed gun violence to become the leading cause of death among children in the United States – but that is the reality.

GUN CONTROL - Ready, aim, fire: "I believe in Jesus, guns and babies." So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.

RUSSIAN WAR - The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days.

LABOR WATCH - America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans.

GUEST COMMENTARY - “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…”

HIGHER WAGES - Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."

THE VIEW FROM HERE - After Ben Franklin answered the question what form of government the Constitutional Convention had created, the questioner did not ask, “Why a republic?” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented.

GUEST COMMENTARY - "Everybody plays the fool" The Main Ingredient, 1972 

SCOTUS WATCH - We are hurtling towards a world where a group of conservative mostly white men will likely trample the rights of "post-born" women to control their reproduction in the name of saving the "pre-born."

ACCORDING TO LIZ - The Setup.  A number of years ago, a joke circulated about a wealthy American who, on the 100^th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commissioned a mural to commemorate Custer’s last thoughts before his death.

LABOR WATCH - Veronica Gonzalez can’t wait until July. That’s when a union election is scheduled for the Starbucks store where the 26-year-old barista works with 40 others in the Cypress Park neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.

POLITICS WATCH - President Joe Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure our allies there that he will fight for them.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Over five millennia, urban centers have been drivers of civilization and progress, and have adapted in ways that have changed their form and function but assured their survival.