THE VIRAL INFECTION OF DARK MONEY IN TODAY’S POLITICS (…and the only anti-biotic for it is to limit its means of infection) Ever since the Supreme Court saw fit to equate the free-speech rights of business and corporate entities with
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IT AIN’T YOUR GRANDPA’S COLUMBUS DAY ANYMORE… (…’cause it’s no longer politically correct…don’t y’know) Poor Columbus! He seems to have become persona non-grata these days, almost as much as he was back in his day when he was trying to
TODAY’S AMERICAN POLITICAL COMBATS (…are now being waged on the battlefields of our minds) American political warfare has always been waged in a wide-open no holds barred style (and best characterized as the epitome of “sleaze”), but, for the most
SYMPTOMS OF BANANA-REPUBLIC INFECTION (…are beginning to affect everyday America) Our country seems to be showing symptoms of banana-republic infection these days, and it’s beginning to affect everyday America. For one thing, voter anger and disgust at the political gridlock
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE FAKE NEWS WAR (…we first have to consider the source of it…) After almost two years of loud roaring about “fake news”, most of those roarings about it are as fake as the news it has
STILL SEARCHING FOR ITS PLACE… (in this new world order of things) America’s transition from its global preeminence in the 20th century, into this 21st one, has not been easy. Even as we approach the quarter cdentury of it, America
TIPTOEING FORWARD… (…into some semblance of peaceful co-existence) Regardless of his twitter-feed style of personal invective and incivility, President Trump must be given credit for his performance at the recent historic summit meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s leader Kim