Progressive Democrat Issue 210

This week the Right Wing seemed to be all about tea, or something. Which is odd because all I heard from them was whining. It should have been wine and cheese, not tea, because it was all whining and cheesy cliches that really are meaningless if you scratch the surface. It led the anti-America Texas governor to even suggest Texas might want to secede. He might want to study some American history (even though he seems to hate American democracy) and he might discover that secession is a dead end, and was something largely opposed by the likes of George Washington, James Madison and, in particular, Andrew Jackson. Isn't it really ironic that at least one of these secessionist wine and cheese...I mean "tea parties" was in front of a statue of Andrew Jackson when THIS is what Andrew Jackson had to say about secession in his "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina" during the nullification crisis:

...each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation, and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connection with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offense. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right, is confounding the meaning of terms, and can only be done through gross error, or to deceive those who are willing to assert a right, but would pause before they made a revolution, or incur the penalties consequent upon a failure.

I seriously bet the anti-American Texas governor is completely unaware of what state's rights champion Andrew Jackson had to say on the issue.

This week I focus mainly on scientific issues in my main articles and expand my local coverage.

Here is this week's newsletter:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Breakthrough in Colony Collapse Disorder...of considerable agricultural importance

Keeping Antibiotics Effective: Healthcare and agriculture meet

Taking George Will to Task...I expect better from George Will than actual lies about science.

Brooklyn, NY focus

Queens, NY focus

Bronx, NY focus

NEW YORK STATE FOCUS

Silicon Valley, CA Focus

Orange County, CA Focus

Sacramento, CA Focus

San Diego, CA Focus

CALIFORNIA FOCUS

MICHIGAN FOCUS

Clean Wisconsin

WISCONSIN FOCUS

New Jersey Equality

NEW JERSEY FOCUS

Pennsylvania Equality

PENNSYLVANIA FOCUS

Virginia Equality

VIRGINIA FOCUS

Georgia Hate Crime Legislation

GEORGIA FOCUS

Houston/Harris County Focus

Austin/Travis County Focus

TEXAS FOCUS

ILLINOIS FOCUS

ARIZONA FOCUS

FLORIDA FOCUS

COLORADO FOCUS

NEVADA FOCUS

IOWA FOCUS

WASHINGTON FOCUS

NORTH CAROLINA FOCUS