March 28, 2024

Rethink the Week:
SNHU Professor and Civic Scholar Dean Spiliotes
Lobbyist and Former State Rep. Rick Newman
(Please Note: our good friend and colleague NEC Professor Wayne Lesperance is very ill, please send your positive energy and love his way…there is no finer person on the planet, kind, smart, sensitive, funny, curious, generous and a wonderful teacher)

Topics;
Charleston
It’s Not About Mental Illness: The Big Lie That Always Follows Mass Shootings By White Males Salon
confederate flag
The GOP Presidential Candidates’ Confederate Flag Problem
New York Magazine
Hundreds march in Charleston, Columbia to take down Confederate flag Washington Post
guns..an armed public
Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley: Lack Of Gun Control Is ‘Insane’
Huffington Post
racism
Trump on Mexicans
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump’s racial rhetoric ‘not acceptable’
Politico
Pope and the environment and capitalism
Pope Francis’ Call to Action Goes Beyond the Environment New York Time
Bernie…crowds get bigger and bigger
Maher Tells Bernie Sanders: Your Campaign Must Be Working ‘You’ve Got Hillary Talking Like Elizabeth Warren’ Raw Story
Katich calls the Pope’s call pantheism
How to punish banks found guilty of criminal activity
How to Punish Bank Felons
Huffington Post
The economy
New Report: The Impact of Airbnb on Middle Class Income Stagnation AirBnB. DC insider: “Obama official Gene Sperling proposes AirBNB as a solution to the stagnating middle class income problem he helped cause.”

Geography for Dummies:
Republic of Macedonia