States Rights

States Rights

Ex-president Donald Trump enunciated a policy on abortion. Even though many of his supporters like to think of him as an outsider, he is a politician; and he did a very political thing. He avoided taking a stand. He said that abortion decisions should be left to the...
Yellow Politics

Yellow Politics

Any reputable school of Journalism teaches that their discipline sank to a low water mark in America at the end of the 1800’s. Two competing newspapers, one owned by Joseph Pulitzer and one owned by William Randolph Hearst, destroyed the integrity of the news with...
Four Party America Continued

Four Party America Continued

The first blog I wrote, back in 2013, poked fun at both the Democrats and the Republicans for their misguided attempts to corral enough voters to make the false claim to a Permanent Majority. That is never going to happen, and yet both parties are still orchestrating...
Four Party America Continued

Four Party America

Some years ago, I wrote about PEW research that identified nine distinct political personas within the greater American political landscape. The thrust of my words, then and now, is to say that the two-party system is failing in its promise to represent us. The nine...
American Isolationism

American Isolationism

The CBS Sunday Morning show this morning did a segment on the death and destruction in Ukraine. The problem was discussed, but no solutions were put forward. No solutions are ever put forward. The situation in Ukraine is just one of the Political issues used by both...