Democracy
I’ve just finished reading Jon Meacham’s book The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Using various periods in our history (The Civil War, the McCarthy Era, Reconstruction, etc),...
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Woman power is the future
A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America’s political history in January of 2017. But pretty much no one anticipated that they’d be doing it as leaders of the resistance. On...
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Senate in a hurry
The Senate, that body that couldn’t seem to muster enough energy to do very much since 2010 except hold endless hearings about Hillary Clinton, has suddenly gotten busy. Last night – or rather early...
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act
The Republicans have made a mantra out of repealing the ACA aka Obamacare. I’ve lost track of how many times they have voted to repeal it, but close to 60, I think. The surprising thing is how...
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The silly season begins in earnest with too many deaths and too many guns
Time to fire up the blog again after a long break. I’ve found the world just too depressing to write about with violence and war all over the world including police shooting civilians, civilians...
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Hillary and Bernie
I woke up this morning to pundits talking about the debate last night as if it had been a boxing match. As a friend posted on Facebook that is not what he saw. Me either. What he and I saw were two...
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Guns and public health
There are too many guns in the United States. Last October Christopher Ingraham wrote in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog It’s tough to know exactly how many guns we have in the United States. Most...
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American Terrorists
Try this exercise. Yesterday morning I thought about terror attacks here in the United States and as the day went on I wrote them down. I ended up with two lists: One of Muslim perpetrators, one of...
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Judge Moore and Justice Thomas and marriage equality in Alabama
I guess that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is taking his cues from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent instead of from the actual ruling in which the majority of the United...
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Ghettoside
We are all thinking this January 2015 about relationship between the minority – in particular, black – communities and the police. Ghettoside by Los Angeles reporter, Jill Leovy, is a timely addition...
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The Supremes, Judge Posner, and gay marriage
The news late last week that the Supreme Court would hear an appeal from the Sixth Circuit ruling upholding bans on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee brought to mind the...
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Ebola, the flu and other health risks
I just got my flu shot. I get one every year. While it might not keep me from getting sick this winter, in all likelihood it will keep me from getting really sick. I just hope that everyone else I...
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Like a speeding locomotive
That’s the image that comes to mind when I think of how quickly things have moved when it comes to marriage equality. It has only been 10 years since same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts....
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The People’s House
Julia Pierson, head of the Secret Service, testified before Congress yesterday on the security lapses that resulted in a fence jumper making it into the White House and then into the East Room. But...
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A few thoughts from Professor Krugman on unemployment and my own on the...
One of the issues in the mid-term elections is the failure of the economy to fully recover. Having watched bits and pieces of the new Ken Burns series on the Roosevelts I see some parallels between...
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Police departments and racial diversity
Back in the dark ages, that is the early to mid-1980s, I worked on a study for then Virginia Governor Charles Robb. He wanted to know several things including how we could recruit more...
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The politics of macho
In 1992 when he was running for President in a tight Democratic primary race, Bill Clinton rushed back to Arkansas where he was governor to preside over the execution of Ricky Ray Rector. According to...
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Some random thoughts about Cliven Bundy
I’m with Jon Stewart: I just don’t get it. Here is a man who doesn’t recognize the United States government, but runs around with an American flag. He thinks slavery was a fine institution, much...
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Solving the pay equity problem: Not that easy
Is the gender gap in wages a myth or is it as the President said yesterday just math? If a company pays, as does the White House and most other government agencies, equally for the same job, why is...
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As the dust settles
on the first enrollment period of the new Affordable Care Act, we are learning that a lot more people than a lot of people predicted have signed up for insurance. President Obama is claiming 7.1...
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