A little bit of everything
Richard E. Vatz is professor emeritus of political rhetoric at Towson University and author of The Only Authentic of Persuasion: the Agenda-Spin Model (Authors Press, 2022) and many other works, essays and op-eds. He is a Distinguished Professor at Towson University and has won a number of teaching awards.
I am not going to fact-check this debate because there is no evidence that fact-checking hurts candidates unless one says that the Ku Klux Klan is his go-to source or that New York City is the capital of New York State.
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To my gleeful surprise, the “March for Israel” was strong, and bipartisan (no, Rashida Tlaib apparently couldn’t make it – she was busy looking up “From the River to the Sea” to prove that it meant swimming locations for Hamas sign-ups).
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All-out support of Israel’s goal of wiping out Hamas is risky; communicating indecision on point after point is riskier, and that’s what you can likely, but not certainly, expect from President Biden.
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War correspondents particularly interest me due to the voluntary life-threatening danger in which they put themselves and the difficulty of reporting, especially live when it is possible.
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There is a time-honored expression regarding war: “Truth is the first casualty.” This is indubitably true, especially in a world with so many sources of information, all of whom have their own agendas, independent of telling the truth, even if it takes some time to establish that truth.
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There is one candidate, the only one in recent months to whom I have made a contribution but with whom I have no ties, who represents a presidential candidacy I can support strongly: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina (2011-2017) and the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 through December 2018.
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I have no doubt that Speaker McCarthy disappointed you in ways that made him less than a perfect Speaker, but your nuclear reaction destroyed so much of that which surrounds conservative causes, plus your alignment with utterly self-centered irresponsible Republican congresspersons, such as Rep. Gaetz, can be interpreted as nothing but utterly reckless.
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I have been interested in presidential elections, political fights, and political rhetoric since 1960, and through 2012 in every presidential
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Kyle Gibson has been immersed in innumerable charities country-wide and is the vice president of Big League Impact; he has hosted fundraisers throughout major league cities and through his philanthropy has raised nearly half a million dollars. Personally, he has donated his own time and money, including $100 for each of his strikeouts this year – ever heard of such a great conflict of interest?
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As you no doubt have been following to the extent that there is any new information, Baltimore City experienced a mass shooting on July 2 at Brooklyn Homes in a South Baltimore block party amid its continuing killing fields. So far, as of August 11, two have perished and 28 were wounded.
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