I’ve admitted that until the election of George W. Bush, I was a lifelong Republican of a moderate stripe. I believe in a lean government but also give strong support to social security, national disaster relief, the defense of the country and a free education for all. I’d lik
Donald Trump’s truth varies minute by minute. It’s like listening to Variations of a Theme of Paganini but less pleasant. Trump doesn’t seem to worry about these variations, which his critics call lies. Rather, he twists the truth, I suspect, to convince his subjects that one
A good chunk of American voters are standing aghast as Donald Trump engages in a scorched earth presidency. While I live in a state of shock, I am convinced the Republicans are enabling him for two reasons. First, they want him responsible for the final axing of programs like Obama
Newton’s third law of motion, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, extends from Mother Nature to human nature. Any mass movement will attract a large number of nay-sayers. Just as Phyllis Schlafly opposed the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1960s, some wo