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Shake the Earth and Crack the Sky
Floor the gas pedal, leap over the horizon, and savor sights and sentiments that are stridently “over the top.”
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David Gottfried
Lies My Teachers Told Me
Advice to Young People: Steer clear of the hackneyed cant masquerading as wisdom and follow a few simple principles to find meaning and love and lead a…
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David Gottfried
What Would you Do if you were an Air Traffic Controller ?
“It is Better to Die on your Feet than to Live on Your Knees” – La Passionaria, A Valiant Communist who fought Franco and Hitler during the Spanish…
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David Gottfried
Dems: Can the Compromise and Contrition and be Bold Leftists
The purportedly realistic and professional opinion, that Dems must moderate their flaming liberalism, is a lie designed to make us lose.
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David Gottfried

October 2025

New York City Politics: An Exercise in Ethnocentric Idiocy
In Balkanized New York, politicians compete for the votes of various minorities, such as blacks, Jews, gays, etc., and the genuine needs of the…
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David Gottfried
Glowering, Glittering Queen Trump and his Glorious Ballroom
Today’s Issues: Trump’s Offensive "affection" for Jews ala the “German Court Jew,” Trump and Brain Cancer in children, Trump’s Queenly relationship to…
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David Gottfried
Killing 2 birds – Poverty & Emotional Depression – with 1 stone
How growing economic inequality has fueled low-salaried degradation and emotional depression and how and why ballistic, bellicose political action is…
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David Gottfried
The Inexorable Case for Mamdani and a New Hard Left
The Media Still Refuses to Explain the Real Impact of Income Inequality. It is more than Unfair; It Makes Middle Class and Poor People Objectively…
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David Gottfried
A Castrated Man is Not a Woman
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Two Novel Ideas Re Transgenderism and Medical Malpractice
1) Doctors are morally inconsistent in the use of puberty blockers and conversion therapy; 2) A proposed new legal tool to aid plaintiffs in medical…
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David Gottfried

September 2025

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