The Commander-In-Chief has given “total authorization” to the military. This seems better than having a man-child making decisions to shoot or not, but does represent a fundamental dereliction of duty. There is a reason that tradition and the constitution assign the authority (and responsibility – that is the rub) to the President for control […]
Read MoreHolocene, we hardly knew you!
The US is going to quit the Paris Climate Agreement for no clear or consistent reason – the latest is that the impact would not be significant enough. Aside from being ignorantly incorrect, this misses the benefits of working with the 194 countries in the agreement. Abdicating leadership and turning our back to the […]
Read MoreFilm Reveals Test Case to Shut Down Public Education & Privatize Close to All of Us
HARDSCHELL REPORT, May 26, 2017, Evanston, IL New Trier – Tip of the Spear How the Illinois Family Institute – listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center tried to shut down this documentary filmmaker who reported on thier dark money activities to make New Trier hight school a test case to […]
Read MoreMacron….Excellent Fake Right & Go Left
HARDSCHELL REPORT, May 27, 2017, Evanston, IL..…. Mr. Macron, Sir….We had no idea what an agile athlete you are and praise your improbable move to avoid the clumsy Trump arm wrestling. The way you left America’s fake president hanging was priceless. https://www.yahoo.com/news/emmanuel-macron-swerves-donald-trump-101549987.html
Read MoreMacho Insecurity on World Stage
Does oafish behavior appeal to the base? That would be an interesting study in macho-insecurity. Pushing the Montenegro Prime Minister out of camera range in order to be front and center, now seems like normal behavior and perfectly encapsulates the person. Of course, “America First” and the rest of you get in line! Lecturing […]
Read MoreOur Mad Man?
The U.S. appears to be out of step. Our guy is a Mad Men era character with the grabbing, stream polluting, and sclerotic thinking about us against them. Canada seems so much more evolved and now probably France. Sure, if you are in the “us” camp you can look forward to tax breaks but pity the […]
Read MoreThe Greeks had their Metics
What is so vile and scary about a “path to citizenship”? Amnesty, from Greek amnēstía, “forgetfulness of wrong” seems like a good concept. Who wants to hold on to resentment for someone who bravely escaped a hard and often dangerous life and crossed a border? Could it be simply a dislike and fear […]
Read MoreNobody Loves a Wall
Hard Schell Report, Evanston, IL Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Build that Wall…Build that Wall…And who is going to pay for that wall? You..and me and every tax payer in the US. Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to […]
Read MoreChinese president Xi Takes Trump to School
April 13, 2017, Evanston, IL……. Apparently, Trump came into his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in early April, convinced that China could simply eliminate the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program. However, after listening for 10 minutes to President Xi patiently explain Chinese-Korean history to Trump —” I realized it’s not so easy,” […]
Read MorePharma Drama!
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is about granting the people the right to exercise their freedoms of speech and religion. I guess Big Pharma has some claim to the 1st but: Why do we allow them to bombard us with dramatized ads attempting to convince us to start using their remedies […]
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