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

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

As technology keeps drawing  people around the globe together, tribal instincts that once served us well, are putting us in danger.  Some of the examples of tribalism are near to insanity: The owner of a convenience store in New Mexico put up a sign recently:  “Obama and other Mu

A reader commented on my blog of January 4, 2017.  The topic was about leadership.  In it, I referenced an article where researchers had concluded values, above intelligence or experiences, was the primary quality for a statesperson.  The woman recounted a discussion she’d had wi

Recently, a woman on Facebook admitted she received most of her news from social media.  If true, she is making a couple of mistakes.  First, she is  foreclosing on ideas outside her narrow group of like-minded friends.  Second, she’s vulnerable to fake news, much of it propagan

Writer Rick Perlstein draws some frightening comparisons between Richard Nixon and Donald trump, but concludes that of the two, Nixon, because he was an introspective man, set limits on his immorality.  (He’s Making a List,” by Rick Perlstein, New Republic, Jan/Fe, 2017 pgs. 18-1