This was inauguration day. At times it seemed as far away as Christmas does on Thanksgiving to an eight year old. Too much time, too much could happen. As it got closer the anxiety didn’t lessen. It grew with each passing day, so close to dodging the bullet but not Read more…
You have to admire some people’s resilience in the face of adversity. Prophecy has become big business on the internet with dozens of self-described prophets enlightening the faithful of the things to come, the imminent movings of the Lord their God that will clearly reveal that nothing is impossible when Read more…
It was 1967, the Summer of Love. In the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco young people were reinventing what freedom meant in the United States, stretching boundaries that had been in place for generations. Peace became a political force, and love a radical form of protest. I knew nothing Read more…
The mob ascended the stairs in a fury. They scaled walls, clinging by their fingertips with fire in their eyes. Searching the crowd it swung between blood lust and euphoria, sharing only madness. The lies had accumulated, little ones and grandiose ones, amplified by media allies that implied journalistic affirmation Read more…
I’m 63 years old and have been through quite a few elections by now. In all that time, I have never tuned in to monitor the results of the electoral college voting. Not once. In 2000, the electoral college was not the issue. No one imagined that electors would go Read more…
Did you have the honor of watching the Georgia debates? If the SNL staff writers are currently being paid anything at all it’s like paying an infant for needing a diaper change. It’s like stealing money. Jon Osroff debated an empty podium as sitting Senator Perdue chose to skip the Read more…
What happened to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn? A highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army, Flynn served with distinction for over 30 years, receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit among other distinctions. He spent much of his career in military intelligence serving under General Read more…
We have been quietly blessed by 2020. The party conventions were virtual this year, mercifully unpopulated with bloated hysteria from either side played out to the strains of “Happy Days Are Here Again”. They are not. Though the result was decisive, mirroring what our current President characterized as a “landslide” Read more…
I’m back. It has felt pointless to write anything for some time. It felt redundant, unnecessary. Was there anything more to be learned about this President? I won’t even repeat the obvious here for clarity. If his essential failure at the simplest levels of humanity are unclear to anyone then Read more…
Winds of change are set to blow! Where has everybody been? The story unfolding around you today has been around a very long time. Great writers and investigative journalists and one very talented and courageous college freshman have been trying to let you know what was coming, what was percolating Read more…