Law should forbid U.S. nuclear first strike

Law should forbid U.S. nuclear first strike

Few Americans are still alive who have a living memory of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.   Maybe that’s why so little attention is paid to the danger of nuclear war, unlike in the 1950s and 1960s. The purpose of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter an attack by a...
He Is Not A King …

He Is Not A King …

Many years ago, my sister-in-law, Linda, tried to teach me a new card game … I disremember what the game was, for I am not good at games and I likely never played it again after that night.  She had a unique way, for she rather made the rules as she went.  And, when I...
Trump has Exhausted my Thesaurus

Trump has Exhausted my Thesaurus

Donald Trump is not the first or last politician who is, has, or will lie.  The accepted cliché of the dishonest pol is the conventional wisdom generally used as a hammer to bludgeon ideas or legislators with whom we disagree. We have all heard it, “all politicians...
We Have to Raise the Bar 

We Have to Raise the Bar 

I listened to President Trump last night address the South Korean National Assembly, regaling them with both praises of their native golfers and horror stories. The problem is the world is so jaded by the constant prevarication of this president you must question...
Democrats…Fight Back, except you Hillary 

Democrats…Fight Back, except you Hillary 

  The thing that makes me a liberal Democrat, not a progressive, an Independent, an anarchist or a Blue Dog, is a simple credo; The prerequisite willingness to accept change, coupled with the skills to implement it. Part of that change and implementation is...