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

Two days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United State, a woman on Facebook had a freak-out.  Did she blame the Tea Party for his election, the Republicans, the rust belt, the Evangelicals?  No, she blamed Hillary Clinton because she shot down Bernie�

In my final years of public service, I’d become somewhat adept at finding places in our county budget where administrators could hide money. I don’t blame them. Managers long for stability and politician’s hunger to create new programs for which they can take bows. Even so, when

Three years ago, I warned  a religious war was being fought and won under the guise of medical acquisitions and mergers.  Catholic hospitals were buying secular hospitals and imposing religious restrictions on procedures that had previously been available.   (Blog 11/8/2013)   S

A Facebook friend put up a snapshot of me attending a writer friend’s book signing.  I had braved a dark and stormy night to get there so when I spied my picture on social media, I wrote, “It looks like Albert Einstein and I have the same hairdresser.”  Yes, at my age, I can l

“A Polemic,” may be too grand a title for this blog.  While not intending to be impassioned, I would like to lay out the reason why I labor each day to put a few ideas, most of them not my own, in to print.  I owe that explanation to myself as well as to my readers.  I write my

Since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, the stock market has jumped to new highs.  The president attributes that rise to his win but there is another explanation.  As Liz Ann Sonders, a strategist of Charles Schwab, explains, companies are anticipating a ri