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There are about 7.8 billion people in the world. Of that total, 331 million live in the United States. We represent about 4.2 percent of the total world population. Yet, at the time the world COVID-19 death toll surpassed one
Read moreHollow words and campaign lies do not a health care plan comprise. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, a tepid attempt to make health care affordable to most people in the most
Read moreZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, made him famous, but Robert Pirsig’s second book, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, provides the framework to describe the country’s current civil unrest. Pirsig constructs an evolutionary scale of conflicting values within the world. He
Read moreWho knows what tomorrow brings? Or the next 15 minutes? Lightning strikes. Meteors might reach Earth as meteorites.We don’t need a bop on the head to admit the iffiness inherent in existence. The echo of Big Bang is universal chaos.
Read moreI cut my newspapering teeth dealing with city police, sheriffs, deputies and highway patrolmen. I trusted the lawmen – and never found a reason to doubt them on the crime beat. Political considerations are another matter – especially with elected sheriffs.
Read moreI lean leftward of many of my Democratic colleagues. But, I’m not out on the fringe with idiots who think abolishing police departments would serve anyone but criminals. And neither is Joe Biden – nor former prosecutor Kamala Harris. Down
Read moreThose politicians formerly known as Republicans before they became Trumpista cultists, claimed to advocate law and order. The evidence shows them and those who own them as confidence men and women continually on the grift, accumulating civil and criminal convictions
Read moreWe know the Republicans became the party of racism when Nixon’s Southern Strategy recruited disenchanted Dixiecrats after the Democratic Party opened its proceedings to all people. Seeing George Wallace’s popularity in 1968 showed them a voting base that they could
Read moreA familiar political adage of uncertain origin is, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But, history suggests the opposite is often true, literally from its beginning. Herodotus, the author of the first History, details the alliance between Athens and Sparta to
Read moreThe recent publication of his niece’s book and the mid-July interview with Chris Wallace of Fox Faux News have shown us Donald Trump as “a self-pitying man who is shattering the nation and doesn’t even care,” according to The Atlantic’s
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