We are in a second Civil war for the soul of America. The battle lines were etched in yesterday’s Senate vote as clearly as when the first shells struck Fort Sumter. The mostly all-white Republican Party is currently bent on eliminating voting that is fair, equal, and unfettered. Like expanding slavery, they say any decision to remove the shackles they …
We are running out of time for Joe Manchin, and Krysten Sinema to recognize their goal of trying to seek bi-partisan solutions is not shared by their Republican friends. The sound of one hand clapping is silence and failure to face reality. The Republicans are not negotiating in anything remotely like good faith. They continue to pedal the Big Lie …
Wrapped up with the “big lie” that Donald Trump won the 2020 election is another whopper, the claim that any expenditure other than tax breaks for the wealthy is part of a “radical socialist agenda.” If that were true, seniors like me would still be eating dog food to afford needed health care, as we all were before the enactment …
The answer is yes, provided everyone is permitted to vote. Voter suppression is the single greatest threat to our future as a democracy. I want to believe the hundred plus Republican members of Congress who swore to uphold the Constitution then voted against doing so, will stop parroting the “big lie” they know is false. Their own judges have told …
Joe Biden was the right Democratic candidate for President in 2020 and he is tapping into the soul of America which is good. He desperately needs to be supported even if he is not quite as liberal as I am. I look back every day at how close we came to losing our country. Just a few votes in a …
In November, Trump banners, flags, and boards decorated the back roads in Wisconsin like a parade route on the Fourth of July. Even the sides of barns were painted like billboards for Trump. It proclaimed what had to be a landslide for the President. The source of this cult of personality, and hatred of all things Democrat, was FOX supplemented …
Prior to the Civil War, America called itself “these United States.” After the Civil War, America called itself “the United States” – the United States of America. It was only after six hundred and twenty-five thousand soldiers died and four million slaves were freed that America became one thing: a union and not simply a confederation of states. And it …
When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it.…
No one deserves to be impeached and convicted more than President Donald J. Trump, unless it is the thousands of his followers who stormed the Capitol last week, or the elected Republicans who swore to defend the Constitution and failed to do so, or the 75 million people who, after four years of openly dictatorial behavior, voted against Democracy.
However, …
President Trump and Mitch McConnell appear bent on ramming through a hasty 11th hour lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. This naked power grab will do long term damage to the Court, our country and both parties.
We all know the court itself is badly divided and has been losing the respect of the public. Justice Ruth Bader …