The "Christian" Right Shows Its True Colors Once More [Updated &...
I’m a Christian. In fact, I am married to a (female) minister. So, just as Muslims are constantly embarrassed by “Islamic” extremists (e.g., al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIL), I am constantly embarrassed by...
View ArticleWarren's 1st Foreign Policy Speech Focuses on Economic Corruption,...
It’s no secret that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is at the top of my list of those for whom I’m rooting in the 2020 Democratic primaries. (Others who excite me include Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen....
View ArticleShould Democrats Call for Trump to Resign?
Cody Fenwick, writing at Alternet.com , acknowledges the cross-pressures Democrats find themselves in, vis-a-vis Trump’s crimes. Our base wants him impeached, and the publicly available facts about his...
View ArticleBuying an EV was my Christmas Gift to the Environment
I just became the proud owner of a 2019 Chevy Bolt. I charged it last night using the solar panels installed on our roof this past August. (Rooftop solar has been a dream of mine since the 1970s). We...
View ArticleDemocrats: When Evaluating 2020 POTUS Candidates, Let's Look at Broad Life...
We Democrats are about to be inundated with a huge slate of candidates for our 2020 POTUS nominee. Much is riding on our choices: Defeating Trump (or whomever), winning the White House and having...
View Article2020 POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #1: Elizabeth Warren
In this diary, I suggested that one way we Democrats should evaluate our 2020 POTUS candidates is on having education and other life experience that breaks from the “cookie cutter politician,” mold....
View ArticleDem POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #2: Julian Castro
This should have been posted this morning, but I was sick yesterday. Sorry that it’s late. This continues my series (begun here and continued here ) profiling our vast Democratic POTUS candidate field...
View ArticleBarr: "I Haven't Looked At" Whether or Not Birthright Citizenship is...
See the details at TPM. I’ll keep my comment short and sweet: In any U.S. Senate with integrity, no matter which party had the majority, this would be absolutely disqualifying in any candidate for the...
View ArticleAnne Hutchinson: Celebrating Religious Freedom Day
The defense of religious liberty (including the liberty to have no religious beliefs or practices) is a value deep in my family and faith traditions. I loved seeing the diary on the Quaker, Robert...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Life Experience Profile #4: Kirsten Gillibrand
Sorry the title was wrong. I had to be away from my laptop and had this set to publish automatically, but had also scheduled the 3rd profile in this series, on Tulsi Gabbard, to publish an hour...
View ArticleDem. POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #3: Tulsi Gabbard
This was scheduled to publish before my profile on Kirsten Gillibrand today. I was away from my laptop and didn’t realize it hadn’t published. So, it’s out of order. Further, I didn’t proofread the...
View ArticleEvolution, not Perfection: All Our Democratic POTUS Candidates Will Need to...
Last night MSNBC’s Chris Hayes made a very salient point (not an unusual happening): The Democratic Party has shifted dramatically to the Left since the 1990s and even since the election of Pres. Obama...
View ArticleNicole Wallace Has a Great SOTU Strategy
I used really dislike Nicole Wallace when she was George W. Bush’s press secretary. But she has been a great “Never Trumper” and, as a “non-practicing Republican,” she has been a very strong critic of...
View ArticleTrump is (Finally) Right: Democrats ARE Becoming "Radicalized"--and About...
When Trump was asked about Speaker’s Pelosi’s firm “no” to his delivering the State of the Union in a joint session of Congress (held in the House), he said that Democrats have become radicalized. For...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Profile # 5: Kamala Harris
With her long-awaited announcement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (on Good Morning America), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is now officially a candidate for the Democratic nomination for POTUS in 2020....
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile # 6: Jay Inslee
As readers of this series know, my plan has been to release one of these every Friday as candidates announce. But I have discovered this week that there are three (3) candidates who already announced...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #7: John K. Delaney
The plan was to write these “life experience” diaries at a rate of one per week as candidates announced. However, candidates have been announcing quickly and so we’ve had to increase the rate in order...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile # 8: Andrew Yang
I admit it, until this week, I had never heard of Andrew Yang. But he is running for President of the United States (apparently he announced last November), so I will profile him in this series. For...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #9: Pete Buttigieg
On Wednesday, the mayor of South Bend, IN, Pete Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), announced the formation of an exploratory committee to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States....
View ArticleSCOTUS Seems Poised to Strike Down Roe v. Wade This Week
I am not a lawyer, so I don’t know how worried to be. But it seems from the reporting on ThinkProgress, that the right wing 5 on the SCOTUS appear poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in a new case June...
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