It is January 6, 2023. It is two years ago today that a mob of un-Americans laid siege to our Capital in the hopes of retaining Donald J. Trump in the office of the Presidency. Donald Trump and his many minions had prepared for that day and some of them actively helped to stoke the …
Something Bad Happened on January 6th, 2021. Initially people couldn’t agree on what it was. Some thought that a large group of citizens assembled to listen to their President’s speech and then walk over to the Capital to take a tour. Others thought that their President’s speech was a call to action to prevent the …
I have tried to keep my comments, on current affairs, in the middle of the political aisle, but recent events are not all political – many are better described within the context of terrorism. I think it is time for me to strip off all the varnish and call it like I see it. Our …
We know that our federal government is dysfunctional. We know that much of that dysfunction is related to the filibuster in the Senate. It is time for “We the People” to make the election of our senators and representatives conditional on their pledge to support a revision to the rules of their respective Legislative body …
Last Saturday at a campaign rally in Illinois, Representative Mary Miller (R) thanked President Trump for the three Associate Justices he nominated to the United States Supreme Court saying the Court’s Opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade was a “victory for white life.” She has been trying to correct her words, saying she meant to say …
There has never been a shortage of people arguing for a secular government if that secular ideology was their own. Our Founding Fathers decided that this path was a perilous one and chose a non-secular way forward. Our 1st Amendment contains many of our rights and freedoms, but the first among them is our freedom …
Well, here we are again with the talking heads all a twitter over the Supreme Court Opinion to overturn the fifty-year-old legal president known as Roe vs. Wade which sanctioned a women’s right to choose. Many of those talking heads are citing what they believe to be Constitutional text giving Supreme Court Justices “lifetime tenure …
It is June 24th, 2022. Mark that date in your memory because it is the day when conservatives everywhere told us that what their religious beliefs tell them is more important than anything the rest of us might think. They don’t care what your religious beliefs are because their beliefs are more important than yours. …
The Reconstruction Era is the period from 1865-1877. Our Civil War was fought between 1861-1865 so it took four years to fight the war and twelve years for the “Reconstruction” – Three times longer for “Reconstruction” than for the war. What was the plan? To be fair, I must offer a disclaimer so that everyone …
The shock of so many mass shooting incidents recently has the talking heads all a twitter. On the left we hear all the invectives to justify new regulations designed to reduce the inventory of guns in the hands of citizens at large. On the right we hear the invectives regarding the 2nd Amendment to our …
