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| Views Sunday, October 11, 2020 I Endorse Jacinda Ardern In an era of shout radio and social media degenerates, political endorsements have about as much value as Donald Trump’s alternative facts. A few newspapers valiantly press on, but those endorsements are not much more than vanity plates in print, especially in provincial communities like ours... Read more |
| Views Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Make Masks Mandatory in All Public Spaces In the last 10 years either Flagler County or its cities, or all of them together, have banned the sale of synthetic marijuana and bath salts. They banned the sale of vaping products to people under 21. They tried to regulate out of existence pill mills and Internet cafes until the state... Read more |
| Views Monday, May 18, 2020 Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now. The enormous food drop in Palm Coast for thousands of families at the beginning of the month was inspiring. So was a local business like Verdego devoting four days’ worth of revenue , their entire revenue, to a donation to Grace Community Food Pantry. So, of course, is Grace Community’s work on... Read more |
| Views Wednesday, April 29, 2020 How Many Deaths Can We Live With? In late March Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick was criticized for saying that as a 70-year-old man at high risk for complications from Covid-19, he’d be willing to risk his own death in exchange for reopening the economy. He claims many other senior citizens think the same way. The criticism was... Read more |
| Views Tuesday, April 21, 2020 American Carnage: How Donald Trump Is Killing Us The coronavirus has mutated into ideological variants. Its virulence is now worse than before, this time from our own doing. Fighting it as a united front was battle enough, exhausting and deadly. Fighting it while battling an uprising of premature abnegators undermining, defying and deriding virus... Read more |
| Views Sunday, January 12, 2020 American Impotence: Trump's Assassination of Soleimani Masks Broad Retreat Is Donald Trump mad? Yes. At least he'd like his opponents, in this case Iran, to think so. It's not a novel strategy. He's borrowing it from Nixon's playbook . During the Vietnam War Nixon had his aides make Soviet and North Vietnam's leaders believe that he was so unpredictable that he could... Read more |
| Views Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Stop Criminalizing Children in the Name of School Security We went this first week of school so far this year without one of those moronic incidents typical of the occasional adolescent, typical of last school year, when it seemed we had some of these every few days: no SnapChat banter of an impending assault on any school, no bigoted threats against a... Read more |
| Views Sunday, August 11, 2019 Of Course Guns Have Nothing To Do With It. Nothing. Of course guns have nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with the 22 people massacred at the El Paso Walmart and the 10 killed in Dayton’s entertainment district the next night, the eight killed in two mass shootings less than a week earlier at a garlic festival in California and in Wisconsin... Read more |
| Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Bomb Iran? Pass. Are you in the mood for another war? I would imagine not. So it’s been puzzling, trying to figure out why we found ourselves ready to launch a massive military strike on Iran last week, only to have Donald Trump of all people change his mind and call it off. Thank you Donald. But when Trump appears... Read more |
| Views Monday, June 10, 2019 Green New Deal Me In In the early 80s the New Yorker ran a three-part series called “ The Fate of the Earth ” by Jonathan Schell. At the time there was a great deal of fear that the world would end in a nuclear holocaust. Ronald Reagan was president. He’d not yet had his epiphany about the horrors of nuclear war. The... Read more |
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- Deep down we are innocent Maybe I'm done with the violence Maybe with love it'll make sense Maybe it's all in our intent Deep down we are innocent Maybe I'm done with the violence When you get hurt You wanted to scream Burrow yourself into a dream Didn't you notice We're just a witness Open your eyes Look at the signs Think of the hate you been.
- Pierre Tristam Pierre Tristam is a journalist, writer, editor and lecturer. He is currently the editor and publisher of FlaglerLive.com, a non-profit news site in Florida.
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Pierre Tristam is a journalist, writer, editor and lecturer. He is currently the editor and publisher of FlaglerLive.com, a non-profit news site in Florida.A native of Beirut, Lebanon, who became an American citizen in 1986, Pierre is one of the United States' only Arab Americans with a regular current affairs column in a mainstream, metropolitan newspaper.