I’m confused about this assertion that nobody is above the law in the United States. We have seen some obvious instances of behavior that call this lofty goal into question with our President, but there are complications that make the conversation more complex than we might like. Allow me to try and explain my confusion. …
I hear more and more conversation about how we must do something about all the racism we are starting to recognize throughout society. It seems like everywhere we turn we are finding more and more examples of systemic racism and let me just say that everywhere we have yet to look we will certainly find …
Perhaps you are one of the people that think it would be fair to make Washington D.C. a State. Then the people who live there would be able to have Representatives in the House of Representatives and Senators in the Senate just like all the current fifty States. After all, we’re all supposed to be …
John Bolton’s book has brought about some interesting commentary from past and present members of the Trump Administration. “It contains highly classified information.” “It is fiction.” Can fiction be highly classified – I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. “It’s a lie!” Wow! When a known liar calls another known liar a liar, are …
I’m not sure what is the appropriate way to wish everyone a Happy Day of Celebration, but today is known as “Juneteenth” and with all that is going on in our Nation we all need to pause and exchange our most celebratory wishes to everyone we meet. Today, June 19th, is the one hundred and …
I have heard our President say on several occasions that we have bigger numbers of cases because we are doing more testing. I don’t think he really believes that getting the test will actually give you the covid-19 virus, but that is surely what his words are saying. If he is intending for us to …
Our United States Constitution recognizes slavery and racism as fundamental parts of our new and “more perfect” union. In so doing, the Constitution legitimizes unequal treatment of the people who were living in these United States at the time. And, don’t be fooled by any of that North and South stuff because racial prejudice was …
I have spent a lot of my thought time trying to understand why people do what they do. When I don’t understand a behavior I see, I try to put myself in the body of the one I observe and imagine what could have motivated them. Call it empathy if you want, but I simply …
These last few days I find my mind wandering around the thought that the Founding Fathers never saw this coming. I’m having trouble maintaining my focus because I have read widely about their visions for the government they were designing and the robustness of their plans while encountering similarly broad examples of dysfunction. Was their …
Today we mourn the loss of over 81,000 souls to the coronavirus pandemic. Over 81,000! We lost all those Americans in less than four months while we had another roughly 1,350,000 of our brothers and sisters fighting the covid-19 disease. And, the fight is a long way from over so the death toll and total …
