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Guest Commentator

Ted Vaill

BC Guest Commentator Ted Vaill is a Los Angeles lawyer and filmmaker, grew up in a Republican family (who all would be Democrats today given the extreme rightward shift of the Republican Party in recent years), and is the descendant of an immigrant (who arrived in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620).

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Guest Commentary

Is America on the Verge of the Second Revolutionary War?

By Ted Vaill Guest Commentator

The enemy is not the British but Putin-admirer Trump and his MAGA supporters who have brought America to its current stage of great civic unrest, many of whom are greedy, racist Americans who care only for how much money they can make at the expense of other American citizens and those throughout the world who support us.

Regarding the 2008 District of Columbia v Heller case, which supporters believe gives them an unlimited right to bear any arms they want, the 5-4 decision…

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