The Overton Window is the current term for moving the inert political middle to the right or the left.  It refers to “the range of policies on any given issue that are, at the moment, popular enough for a politician to campaign on successfully.” (“A Theory of Everything,” by

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�

The morning after the 2016 Presidential election, I shared a link on Facebook but failed to vet it.  Loss of sleep and disappointment over the outcome led me to be careless.  But that’s no  excuse and I apologized to my friends on the social media site. Due diligence is the watch

After the flap over Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s unflattering remarks about Donald Trump, I thought we had laid to rest the illusion that people, including justices, are impartial.  Certainly, Sandra Day O’Conner wasn’t impartial in 2000 when she decried that Al

New York Times writer, Nocholas Kristof identified an inconvenient truth, recently, about the liberal mindset. Progressives have great empathy for war victims in other countries, for the poor and even abused chickens, but show little tolerance for conservatives. (Click)   As proof,

Having spent 9 years in public life, I know something about that spotlight.  Politics is the one forum where one needs no credentials to chart a course for society.  One needs only to be in the right place at the right time and have access to money. The situation would be funny, as