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Abortion Bans Are About Power Not Piety

Abortion bans, similar to rape and sexual assault are not about sex and procreation -- they are about male dominated power. But women are not helpless. Time to "fight fire with fire".

2023-06-07T01:40:13+00:00June 7th, 2023|Comments Off on Abortion Bans Are About Power Not Piety

When Did “Representation” Become Extinct in Representative Government?

When did the elected representatives of this nation stop being servants and become our overseers? When did the thrust toward consensus building end and continuous confrontation become the obligatory norm in our public life -- dominated by most extreme voices at both ends of the political spectrum?

2023-05-19T21:54:35+00:00May 19th, 2023|Comments Off on When Did “Representation” Become Extinct in Representative Government?

Reversing Roe Is Radical and Not Victimless

Radical is not a synonym for conservative, nor even for reactionary; but the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V Wade is closer to the former than the latter. Fundamental to conservative thought among liberal democracies are the founding documents of the United States of America – the oldest living democracy. Those documents argue every

2022-06-27T23:41:32+00:00June 26th, 2022|Comments Off on Reversing Roe Is Radical and Not Victimless

What Congress Should Learn from the Mueller Report

Congress cannot allow the executive branch to "adopt regulations" intended to insulate itself from the forceful congressional oversight the Founding Fathers enumerated in Article One of the Constitution.

2021-01-20T16:00:43+00:00April 4th, 2019|Comments Off on What Congress Should Learn from the Mueller Report

Invoking the 25Th Amendment Must Be a Last Resort

The anonymous Trump Administration "senior official" who penned a piece in Thursday's New York Times said nothing new. And there is the shame of this piece. The Trump Administration has been a vortex of fire and fury, a cacophony of boasts and lies, a scandal of incompetence and fawning since January 21,2017. Virtues – we

2021-02-12T10:38:04+00:00September 10th, 2018|Comments Off on Invoking the 25Th Amendment Must Be a Last Resort

The Folly of August Impeachment Talk

President Trump's business and political associates had a bad week this week. Based on the 16 guilty findings, it is clear the President does not pick the "best" to work for him. It is, highly likely, as Michael Cohen's guilty plea tried to establish, President Trump and his presidential campaign violated at least some Federal

2021-02-12T10:39:22+00:00August 29th, 2018|Comments Off on The Folly of August Impeachment Talk

$25 Billion Investment in Border Security

My parents were refugees from Hitler. They were well educated, English speaking and able to rapidly assimilate into American life in the late 1930s. Despite their best efforts; government bureaucracy, anti-Semitism and the speed with which Hitler seized most of Central and Western Europe thwarted their efforts to save their families from Nazi concentration camps.

2021-02-01T11:08:01+00:00June 22nd, 2018|Comments Off on $25 Billion Investment in Border Security

President Trump’s Opioid Plan Falls Short

President Trump declared his determination to end the opioid epidemic --- over the next "7 years" in a New Hampshire speech. The location was not a coincidence. New Hampshire has the third highest rate of death by opioid overdose -- ending the crisis a cornerstone of state politics. Opioid addiction and related deaths have reached

2021-02-01T14:14:16+00:00March 26th, 2018|Comments Off on President Trump’s Opioid Plan Falls Short