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Fish or Cut Bait?

Howell Hurst Defining Trump, Economy & Finance, People Politics

FROM MY CORNER Here in California, which is universally acknowledged as the undisputed vegetable basket of the entire country, media news is reporting our local farmers literally cannot find all the workers they need to harvest maturing crops. While thousands of willing immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America would gladly embrace the opportunity to… continue reading »

Enlightening Donald

Howell Hurst 2020 Presidential Election, Climate & Environment, Defining Trump, People, People Politics, Presidential Election, Trump

FROM MY CORNER Several people have written me lately that they are pessimistic anything can be done to bring Mr. Trump’s thinking into that of mainstream America. Some couch their gloomy vision in terms of whether “we,” the public, can actually “take him down.” Destroy him, if you will. It is not an issue of “taking… continue reading »

Violence: Just Thinking or Law?

Howell Hurst Uncategorized

FROM MY CORNER I have been trying to think through what must be going on inside the heads of people who become violent Nazis and White Supremacists – all those so utterly divorced from the commonly-shared values of most Americans. There is in them surely a deeply seated anxiety, an irrepressible fear, of anyone “out… continue reading »

Violence is The Issue

Howell Hurst Constitutional Issue, People, People Politics

FROM MY CORNER The core, the root, the nucleus, the marrow, the essence – the very heart of the matter in America today – is not race, color, ethnicity, or religion. It is the trait that has over decades emerged as an almost acceptable means of confronting dissension between and among people with different beliefs…. continue reading »