The election of 2000 is likely to be seen – with the benefit of a few years or even decades of hindsight – as one of the saddest chapters in our political history. It’s one of the great sticking points between so-called Liberals and Conservatives, but it says here that the election was stolen...
If the knuckleheads inside the Beltway – and I exclude very few from that description – allow this latest business of increasing the National Debt ceiling to spiral out of control and somehow do additional damage to a badly limping economy than it already has, I am going to blow a gasket. I don’t...
It’s been a long time since a television program had the kind of impact on me that the recent Curt Flood documentary from HBO would elicit. Watching “The Curious Case of Curt Flood” last week just blew me away, in part because he had always been one of my favorite players when I was...
Sometime in the early 1980’s, it occurred to me that the country was making a major divergence from its longstanding commitment to the idea that government had a responsibility to aid those on the lowest rungs of the social and economic ladder. I suppose that vague uneasiness with the nascent Reagan Revolution and the...
This is the concluding section on an earier entry about the misuse and abuse of the word “liberal,” both in upper-case and lower-case usage. I will be accused of being a Pollyanna here, but wouldn’t it be nice if we, everybody, could stop using simplistic name tags? Just for the sake of discussion, let’s...