Tea Party’s Death Throes
The Tea Party may be dead but its spirit lives on like the toxin in a scorpion’s stinger. And that poison has proven lethal enough to kill the Farm Bill, leaving Republican leaders...
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Is This a Joke, Nancy?
According to a news item I just read, Nancy Pelosi suggested at a town hall meeting on Wednesday that impeaching Trump would further “divide the country” and could do more harm than good....
Have a Purpose!
Here’s the first verse of a poem I learned at Guy’s Hill Elementary School, when I was 8 years old: Live for something, have a purpose, And that purpose keep in view; Drifting like...
Salmon under Attack
The salmon that swim in the Columbia and Snake rivers are under attack. And I’m not talking about sea lions and other natural predators or hazardous weather conditions. Those are dangerous enough but the salmon have –...
Listening to the Angels
Democrats have an opportunity to boldly go where no political party in America has gone before – the right way. No American political party has had the guts to stand for what is...
Another Kennedy Emerges
I know it’s kind of superstitious but I couldn’t help feeling a new day might be dawning for America when I learned that another Kennedy is stepping into the political limelight. To me, the Kennedy...
Poly-Tricks as Usual
With Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, there is no “government for the people” in America. What Republicans really care about is scoring political points. And they resort to the lowest...
No, Don’t Kill Trump
Crazy Roger Stone is making headlines by claiming the “Deep State” has a plan to kill Trump. Of course Stone is the kind of publicity hound who would do or say just about...
The Real Bottom Line
I just read a report that big-money donors are threatening to abandon the Democratic Party “if they go too far left.” As an example, a wealthy Democratic donor named Stephen Cloobeck said on...
The Myth of Compromise
As Americans drift farther apart, you will hear calls for compromise between political factions, and the idea might seem seductive. But I doubt it’s possible. When we disagree about such basic concepts as...