American Tribalism

The Democratic Party has to do some major rethinking --- and it has nothing to do with going to the Left or moderating on issues.  It is waking up to the reality that we have no partner in governing, no partner willing to compromise, no partner to partner with in the interest of our nation. We've had a Democrat in the White House for eight years who worked hard to be bi-partisan and to reach ac ...

THEY DON’T HEAR US!

If our countrymen didn’t hear us over the two years of electioneering, then they aren’t going to hear us now. They chose not to listen because they didn’t care, and they are going to choose to not hear us now that their guy won the White House. It’s time for some rethinking on our part. During the campaign we kept thinking that the country could be persuaded by logic and facts, and our logic an ...

WELL THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT!

The last CLN post was on Election Eve, and consisted of musings about the first woman president of the United States of America! NEVER MIND.   TO LOG IN AND LEAVE A COMMENT PLEASE CLICK ON “COMMENT” BELOW. YOU WILL THEN SEE “LEAVE A REPLY.” CLICK ON “LOGGED IN” TO LOG IN AND POST YOUR COMMENT.

ELECTION EVE

Tomorrow is November 8, 2016 -- a momentous presidential election day in America.  Our country and the world agrees that this has been an unbelievably painful and negative campaign season, and we are all relieved that it's almost over.  The twists and turns, the plethora of bald-faced lies, the interference in the election by the F.B.I., and the disgusting sleaze that has permeated this campaign h ...