Back in September and October of 2013 I wrote two blog articles regarding Speaker Boehner’s reluctance to let a clean version of a Continuing Resolution come to the floor for a vote. The first article was titled Hastert Rule is Un-American and offered a history of the Hastert Rule while the second article focused on …
We’ve had quite a few incidents of unarmed persons being killed at the hands of police officers in the past year. The most recent case is in Pasco Washington and there is a cell phone video recording of the final moments of the confrontation. Once again, law enforcement people can be heard taking up the …
My wife and I were visiting friends the other evening and our conversation became rather lively around some of the current events in our national politics. As the conversation unfolded, we came around to the ongoing obstructionist tactics of Republicans in the Legislature and my friend wondered why this behavior continues now that the Legislature …
I have been trying to get this posted for days, but the website has been down. Thanks for your patience. Sincerely, Hank In the wake of the senseless murder of two police officers in New York, I am finding the trends in the conversation to be of great interest and potentially very helpful. One of …
I just finished my hour-long conversation with the treadmill and am a bit sweaty, but this can’t wait. While I was on the treadmill I was watching CNN and the unfolding conversation about the changes being taken to ease relations with Cuba. Several talking heads were interviewed while I was watching and some disagreed as …
We hear it all the time – someone says the government is doing something that is “unconstitutional.” As an example, President Obama’s recent Executive Order on immigration is said to be “Unconstitutional” by many of the Republican Senators and Representatives. When we hear such proclamations, we often hear the word “expressly” used as it relates …
I’ve written a couple of blog posts in recent months which allege that the policies of the Republican Party are racist. I’m careful not to make any of these allegations about any particular Republican, but rather about the Republican Party as an institution. This is Institutional or Systemic Racism in its most classic form. And …
I’ve been thinking about the Mid-Term Elections and listening to all the pundits who are proclaiming this and that about the voter’s message based on which candidate won and what the voters had to say in the exit polls. Something is just not ringing true for me and I wanted to ask if it is …
We’ve all heard the phrase, “Be careful what you wish for – you might get it.” Chances are we have all wished for something that turned out not to be what we really thought we would be happy with. Let me apply this phrase to the current political situation. The approval rating of Congress is …
Allow me to set the foundation under this post before I launch into my point. My wife and I were talking last Sunday evening and she was telling me what some of the talking heads had said during the various Sunday morning talk shows. She likes to watch programs like Meet the Press, State of …
