What’s Going On?
Posted in America, Articles, Civility, Democracy, Leadership
The tombstone captioned above signifies that American Democracy has already died and buried but I believe we have a living chance to save it from real death. The late great Marvin Gaye wrote a song which became the anthem of generations of Americans in the 1970’s and one of the most influential recordings in the […]
The Problem Is Not Trump’s Alone!
Posted in America, Americans, Civility, Compassion, Democracy, Good and Evil, Race Relations
Yes! The president has hurled insulting and demeaning words to immigrants, women, and people of color, political opponents and other people. Yes! The president should take responsibility for how his words may have caused some people to engage in hate-driven acts of violence of which El Paso and Dayton are the most recent and horrific […]
In The End America Loses If We Don’t Do What is Morally Right To Strengthen and Save Our Democracy.
Posted in America, Civility, Compassion, Democracy, Diversity, Leadership, Moral Courage
The racial animus and personal attacks by President Donald J. Trump “parlayed” against various members of the Democratic Party along with the deafening silence and refusal of some Republican cohorts and base supporters to publicly denounce such strident incrimination, painfully demonstrate how low we have sunk as a nation into the politics of resentment […]
Democrats (and Republicans) Must at Least Pursue Impeachment Inquiries To Uncover the Whole Truth.
Posted in America, Articles, Democracy, Moral Courage, Politicians, Public Servants, Social Justice, Truth
America stands at the crossroads of freedom and non-freedom. Will we retain the right to determine our future as a free nation or will we have our future belligerently and arbitrarily trampled afoot by persons preferring to be dictators than compassionate public servants seeking liberty and justice for all? Will we continue as a Democratic […]
A Funny Thing Happened At The Restaurant
Posted in Absurdities, Frivolities, and Inanities, America, Americans, Articles, Big Business, Great Souls, Laughing Out Loud, Stories
Many people were thoroughly upset at the news blaring from the big screen in McHickey’s Restaurant the day Mueller reported there would be no further indictments of President Donald Trump and his associates. But nobody read the report except the Attorney General and key DOJ officials which is why House Judiciary Committee members will soon […]
What Manner of Men?
Posted in America, Articles, Democracy, Leadership, Moral Courage
Looking down the darkened corridors of American Democracy, I still see faint flickers of light clustering and creating new pathways of hope for the American people as they make their way outward and upward to greater dreams and brighter days. That men in their monumental selfishness, unbridled recklessness and ossified arrogance would so carelessly wield […]
What Do You Mean Shut Down Our Government?
Posted in America, Americans, Freedom, Politicians
Will somebody please tell me how a country shuts down its government? Does shutting down the government mean that it no longer needs to exist or that government is no longer necessary? What does it mean when the President of the United States lifts the sanctions on a Russian Oligarch from a country responsible for […]
Quotable Quotes on Power III
Posted in Compassion, Democracy, Power, Truth
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Angela Davis “God made freedom. Man made slavery.” Marie Joseph—Grenier “The government is best which governs best.” John M. Hutchins “Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.” Robert Sherwood “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III “Power, when invested in the hands of […]
Democrats Don’t Relinquish Impeachment Documents Until You Have A Firm Agreement With the Republicans To Call Witnesses to the Senate Trial.
Posted in Absurdities, Frivolities, and Inanities, Americans, Democracy
Listen Democrats. Listen Nanci Pelosi. Listen House Leaders. Do not, do not, do not trust the Republicans to conduct a fair Senate trial by calling witnesses who have not been heard from who can jeopardize the outcome of impeachment. Do not fall for the promises or overtures of a fair trial. You will regret the […]
Time for Silencing of the Lames: Nanci Pelosi Should Once Again Become Speaker of the House
Posted in America, Compassion, Democracy, Equality, Leadership, Moral Courage, Women
The seventeen Democrats led by Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Bill Foster of Illinois along with numerous freshmen who have petitioned other Democrats against supporting Nanci Pelosi as Speaker of the House next January should stand down. Now is not the time for newly elected Democrats to quibble over who will lead them this next […]
