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DONALD TRUMP AND THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS
By Don C. Reed Wanting to earn money to buy a ring for my high school girlfriend, I got on the truck to the strawberry fields. “Dollar a row,” the foreman said, “Don’t bruise the fruit, or you don’t get paid.” The row before me was just a quarter mile long, but it...
WHY I COULD NEVER VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP
By Don C. Reed Although raised in a Republican household, I could never vote for Donald Trump. This is for a variety of reasons, but today I want to touch on only one: I consider Trump an habitual liar, who will say whatever suits his needs of the...
ATTACK ON STEMCELL RESEARCH?
By Don C. Reed All but unmentioned in the recent Republican attack on the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure is the devastating effect it might have on stem cell research. Consider: a young married couple hopes to have a child. Their doctor tells them about IVF,...
IS AN ACORN AN OAK?
By Don C. Reed The Alabama Supreme Court recently declared that blastocysts (fertilized human eggs) were children. This decision may criminalize the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure. For many years virtually all conservative Republicans said: “ life begins at...
I VOTED THIS DAY
By Don C. Reed February 9th, 2024. I looked in the mailbox and there it was , the official document: small but crucial. I took the letter to the kitchen, placed it on the table, stuck my right index finger in the upper left-hand corner of the envelope — and ripped...
OF THOMAS PAYNE, AND UNCLE JOE
By Don C. Reed “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.—Thomas Payne, December ...
OF ELEPHANTS, AND THE NATIONAL DEBT
By Don C. Reed What is the connection between an elephant and the national debt? Before I get to that, I want to make absolutely clear that the financial expert quoted in the article has no connection with me or my writing. I just came across her testimony...
HOW THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY CAN WIN THE ELECTION
By Don C. Reed Remember that song from the classic musical, “PAJAMA GAME”? “Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot. Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing; but give it to me every hour, forty hours every week, and that’s enough for me to be living...
FIT TO BE PRESIDENT?
By Don C. Reed Consider the physical, moral and political attributes. A one -mile walk/run might reveal the physical fitness of the current leading candidates, former President Donald J. Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden. Let the candidates show up in gym shorts...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023