By Gene Jones, President, Florida Veterans for Common Sense
FLVCS stands strong for the national security of the United States. Every passing day the Republican Party compounds serious threats such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, as the following NY Times article confirms. Both the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change are having a
With various national polls showing Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in key battleground states, the president is acting somewhat irrationally and deploying his cabinet secretaries and departments to influence the election. Trump has used most of the past four years to enforce Steve Bannon’s “deconstruction of the administrative state,” and most …
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FLVCS has compiled a COVID-19 Timeline to detail the Trump Administration’s failed response to the pandemic.
Of course, the first duty of a President is to keep Americans safe and he has failed at that.
Now we have over 7,000,000 COVID-19 cases and 200,000 dead Americans, as many as the population …
Coronavirus, CoV-SARS-2, COVID-19, COVID-19 Timeline, pandemic, TrumpThis video comparing the COVID-19 Crisis and Climate Crisis from the Manatee Clean Energy Association is our first in a series of videos. The series will share local subject matter experts and concerned citizens perspectives on the lessons we can learn from society’s response to the pandemic. More importantly, you will …
Veterans understand the words, “I’ve got the conn.” For those of you who may not be vets, the term is the Navy tradition that only one officer has responsibility to give orders to the helmsman for the speed and direction of a ship. The purpose is always to …
There are no limits to the pernicious ugliness of Donald Trump’s war on the environment and its inhabitants. We have examples of personal ugliness toward the late Senator John McCain and his family as well as the treatment of the Gold Star family during the 2016 presidential campaign. There is …
climate change, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Environment, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, pandemic, TumpThe Sarasota Herald Tribune originally published this opinion piece on July 16, 2020 as a Letter to the Editor, titled, Local, state, federal leaders have failed.
Newly commissioned US Army officers are required to attend a basic orientation course where leadership principles are taught. The worst decision …
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“Science denialism” is the worst aspect of the current political climate because it is costing lives. Donald Trump and Mike Pence are leading the movement, even supporting the notion that vaccines cause autism. Pence denies evolution as a concept. Trump’s hostility to science …
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When the Founders finished the Declaration of Independence, a woman stopped Benjamin Franklin outside Independence Hall and asked what form of government the Constitutional Convention had given us. His answer is as pertinent today as it was then, “It’s a Republic, if you can keep it.”…
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