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 ...

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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 ...

I met Hillary Clinton once.  She was meeting and shaking hands with donors in Colorado, and I was one of hundreds standing in line to chat with her for a minute or two.  It was at the height of the many attacks on her personally, and I remember that I said to her, "I hope you can feel all the support that's out here for you."  She said, nodding affirmatively, "I do, I do." Still got your  back, ...

EXPLANATIONS TO THE VOTERS OF "LEAVE THE E.U" REPERCUSSIONS BRITISH VOTER EXPLAINING HER "LEAVE THE E.U." VOTE The Brexit vote is the result of angry white frustration, not reason.  Immigration was a very large contributing factor in the vote to Leave the E.U., and interestingly the older generation voted to Leave and the under 40s voted to Remain in the E.U. One of the main contr ...

TRUMP NEWS OF THE WEEK BOILED DOWN: Donald Trump's poll numbers plummeted, following his bizarre response to the Orlando mass murders --- his numbers fell 9 points. GOP is more than mildly panicked, and the highest ranking Republican, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, has said that "Republicans in the House are free to follow their "conscience" on Trump" and that the last thing he would do ...

News reports have it that Donald Trump is going to name a Veep running mate based on choosing someone with lots of experience in D.C. Huh?  Excuse me:  I thought that Trump's big appeal was that he's an OUTSIDER?!?  So, to balance his outsiderness, he's going to run with an ultimate insider.  Well, that's about as logical as everything else he's done. The Déjà Vu that I'm feeling (kinda like ...

The violent anger of the political right is the clear result of the impending death of their political and social power.  Like the Old Confederacy, history is passing them by --- and they don't like it.  Understandable. The world just has to live through their death throes, and survive the damage they're determined to inflict.  Many in the GOP know what is actually happening, and understand tha ...

President Barack Obama's presidency is a hugely consequential one.  His low key approach and professorial demeanor belie his long and impressive list of accomplishments.  Barack Obama has turned the enormous ship of state toward the future, and the the nation will never be the same --- even the world is changed with his global Climate Change agreement. Even GOP Presidential candidates like Ted ...

The world seems to be veering rightward into extreme positions.  Middle Eastern anger is moving to violence, Putin is taking Russia back to cold-war era hard lines, and the GOP in America is going down their old familiar rabbit hole of intolerance, bigotry, and fear-mongering. It still remains to be seen whether or not America will follow GOP Extremism.  Conservatives are all acting like coweri ...