2016

It’s not easy living in a participatory democracy. A citizen’s work is 24/7, never done. Our liberty and freedoms didn’t come easily and holding on to them is arguably more challenging.…

Dana Millbank, the Washington Post’s wittiest columnist, recently wrote of his take on the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In so doing, Millbank noted comments from readers accusing him…

Over the past weeks, I’ve trained my fire on Donald Trump, the political quack that’s the product of a compliant, sycophantic media and a mush-brain culture of angry bigots, need-it-now Internet…

August 24th. Four weeks and a day to the autumnal equinox. I guess I should call it the first day of fall, but autumnal equinox sounds better, more educated. But probably…

I enjoy reading thoughtful articles. Thoughtful in this case likely eliciting another descriptor from others: boring. You see, facts are essential, valued pieces of information in my universe, even those that…

The firestorm Donald Trump created with his response to Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s statements about him is an eye opener. Unstable as he is, Trump cannot help himself when it comes…

The audacity of hope. America in 2016. Dare one hold a hopeful, trusting, embracing outlook in the Age of Anxiety? Or is it requisite to be down-in-the-mouth, a naysaying prophet of…

A political revolution has happened, but not as Bernie Sanders imagined. By nominating Donald Trump as its standard bearer, the Republican Party has finalized its self-destruction as the Party of Abraham…

After a million casualties for the British and French forces in World War I, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill in 1915 proposed a risky venture to change their fortunes.…

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings. “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” (I, ii, 140-141) It seems to be easier to…

In last week’s column, I focused on the trigger man and the reason for the mass murder and wounding of LGBT patrons at the Pulse. The massacre was not the result…

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that it…

I had my aha moment last week with regard to the success of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It came by way of Ezra Klein’s online piece on Vox. In it Klein posits…

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? – Robert Browning I am feeling a bit better about American society not going totally off the…

During my May 23 KYGT show, District Attorney Bruce Brown discussed an initiative he calls Vets Connect. The program is for vets caught up in the court system of the Fifth…