“I’m a Democrat.” Those words were uttered almost exactly a century ago by cowboy humorist Will Rogers and they are…
Conservative Politics
Letting Men Handle the Abortion Issue
Legislatures (both national and state), courts (ditto for the Supreme Court) and the national conversation on abortion is mostly left…
Democrats and Republicans Each Fail in Specific Ways
Republican failure will come from being on the wrong side of history and that’s a catch-phrase for restricting voter-access, attitudes…
Supreme Court Justice Kagan Lights Up the Sky in Dissent
Four days after Independence Day, we find America is not now as independent as it was before The Supreme Court…
Whoa! Don’t Wanna Teach No Controversial Issues
Time to think about burning witches again in small-minded America. Classrooms, as all right-thinking Republicanite Boards of Education know (or…
Ho-Hum to a Climate ‘Point of no Return’
I mean really, how often are we going to scream that there’s a hole in the dike? We’ve known for…
Hold On, Pardner, Democracy Is Not Yet Dead
Elayne Clift at Salon just penned an article titled How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
According to Google, the first recorded instance for this phrasing comes from Gabriel Manigault, who in his 1884 Political Creed…
The Public Thirst For Outrage
Media carries a lot of blame for the current state of social, legal and political turmoil in America. At least…
Stephen Collinson, Trump’s Inside Man at CNN
Seldom do I write two columns on the same theme, but CNN has offered up consecutive pieces by Stephen Collinson…