Sometimes we forget that the collateral damage of political corruption can be real people. In 2006 George Bush aide, Karl Rove, ordered US Attorneys.…
“Ordinary people” is what defines you, me, and most members of the Trump administration. All God’s children see themselves as ordinary people.…
I read an account of near misses, what would have been an accidental launching of US missiles in response to what appeared to have been Soviet missiles.…
Most of us who remember Republican responses to Barack Obama’s State of the Union speeches don’t recall exactly what Bobby Jindal said in 2009. …
Another day, another scandal. This time the anti-immigrant President turns out to be hiring undocumented immigrants and having their paperwork forged.…
Why are so many fervent believers in the Christmas message unable to apply it to today’s world and the leadership of our own nation?…
A courtroom scolding of a decorated United States General, and President Trump’s promise about the extradition of a Muslim cleric to Turkey.…
In 1948, a plane carrying migrant workers crashed in Los Gatos Canyon. Those deaths were nearly ignored by the press and public of the day.…
We went to gallows humor when my employer made that minor change. We knew it meant the company was certainly going downhill.…
The emperor commanded his battle-hardened troops to run up and down sandy beaches gathering seashells. It was a demeaning exercise.…
Well-meaning people who object to, and often work against voter suppression, see the importance of dirty tricks, of cheating, of elections stolen.…
A few years ago, our Missouri Republican Senator, Roy Blunt, expressed his compassion for children, but thought the sick ought to simply give up and die. …
Tiny blue and pink bonnets worn by adorable little babies can teach us something important about the reasons Republicans give for cutting entitlements.…
The Lies Professor Dunning Taught Northam, Clinton, and Me
We hope for our best judgment when it is necessary to judge the ignorant, the flawed, and those who have done wrong. Not all ignorance is willful. …
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