According to Aesop, every man is born with two bags around his neck: a small bag full of someone else’s faults and a large bag filled with his own. Robert Mueller has emerged as America’s newest super hero. Although he has not yet been nominated for canonization (you have to be […]
“In honor of Flag Day…bring your worn American flags and drop it into the special receptacle. Thanks to our local Boy Scouts, VFWs, military organizations and American Legions for their help in properly retiring all collected American flags” […]
(For a quicker shorter read scroll down to the BLUE FONT) More than two hundred years ago Edward Gibbon gave nations with imperial designs the best advice they ever managed to ignore. “There is nothing more contrary to nature than the attempt to hold in obedience distant provinces.” Talk about the Cassandra syndrome (valid warnings […]
All Presidents Lie. In the transition from candidate to president-elect to new president to established president, crowd-pleasing, vote-getting promises are usually the first to go. Promises that had seemed baked into the cake suddenly become inspirational as in “We’re going to do our darndest, folks, but you know those (opposition party) in Congress are […]
Here you are — like 76% of your fellow Americans you’re living paycheck to paycheck and sometimes your pay doesn’t stretch that far. You also happen to be one of 44 million Americans who have unpaid student loans. Thanks to those loans, you managed to get a college degree, but it’s costing you $400 a […]
“…war is always the proof of failure and the worst of solutions, so everything must be done to avoid it.” — (French President Jacques Chirac, 2003) Schizophrenia: (definition) a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown in the relations between thought, emotion and behavior leading to faulty perception. inappropriate actions or feelings, withdrawal from reality… Sounds like […]
“What I do is authorize my military…we have the greatest military in the world…We have given them total authorization and that’s what they’re doing” [decision to drop the “mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan 4/13/17] —President Trump (4/13/2017) Authorizing the military to set policy on troop numbers, on targets and relaxing the rules governing the power […]
Fresh from his luxurious post-presidency stay on a private island paradise hosted by Richard Branson, one of a multiplicity of billionaires offering the “People’s President” an idyllic respite from his heavy lifting on behalf of said class and a long way from the exuberant promises made to “We the People” in the first blush of victory on November […]
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be —Thomas Jefferson, 1816 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson hit the nail on the head. He made the connection between a public education system and citizens that take an active part in their government. We […]
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