Robert Reich: Why Teddy Roosevelt’s face will remain on Mount Rushmore and Trump’s image will never be there or anywhere else
Here are three of my favorite TR quotes, which I find particularly appropriate today. If you are so moved, you might share them. You might include them in a letter to your local paper. If you have the means, you might even place them in an ad in your local paper or perhaps even on a billboard on a highway near you.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Reich: Ten reasons for modest optimism
If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. A groundswell of opposition is growing — not as loud and boisterous as the resistance to Tump 1.0, but just as, if not more, committed to ending the scourge.
Here’s a partial summary — 10 reasons for modest optimism. …
CBC: Carney to move key carbon tax defender to new cabinet role: source
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will be given a new portfolio in Mark Carney’s cabinet, a source with knowledge of the decision told Radio-Canada.
The Montreal MP and former Greenpeace activist, who has held the portfolio since 2021, will instead be responsible for various files, said the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
However, he will no longer be the face of the fight against climate change.
podcast: The Herle Burly: 20.Feb.2025, Unleashed: Andrew Coyne on Canada, the US, and the World
In fact, when you consider what’s happening in the world, on almost a minute-by-minute basis – the shifting power dynamics, the destruction of alliances and trading relationships, the obliteration of norms – highly curious and massively anxiety-provoking are descriptors that go together pretty well.
We have the perfect guest to talk about it all. If you’ve been reading the great columnist, Andrew Coyne, either in The Globe and Mail or on Twitter, you know he’s been frank in his calling out of Trump and his alliance with Putin, as well as his observations about what’s at stake for Europe, Ukraine and Canada. We’re going to dive into all of that today. He’s always unfiltered, but for the next hour, consider this Andrew unleashed.
Last Updated: 13.Mar.2025 23:10 EDT
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