This too will pass. At least, most of us who have followed the inconsistencies and foibles of American politics still believe that the best instincts of the American voter will eventually win out over the greed, narcissism, and cowardice of those we have temporarily placed in charge of our nation. The problem is that we have elected those people who are absolute toadies and loyalists to a...

All rhetoric aside, this nation is in trouble. We seem to be inextricably divided into two opposing factions that can not or will not reach common ground on almost any issue. 51% of the nation believes that this President and his administration are rogue or illegal actors on both the international and national stage, while a fairly stable 44% of the population believes wholeheartedly that the...

It totally amazes me that there are actually people defending this president for using profanity to denigrate entire groups of people. The president's defenders are falling into two categories; those who state that adults use profanity and that we should all put on our big boy and big girl pants and suck it up, and those who are arguing that the president is saying only that which most...

John Conyers has resigned. That was good. Not for the Democratic party but for the nation. Representative Conyers isn't the only one, however. Our government is rife with people for whom the evidence is overwhelming that they have either been sexual harassers or sexual predators. That includes President Trump, Senator Franken, and Representative Blake Farenhold. Being honest, perversion and...

I'll promise never to bitch about why Donald Trump won the election in 2016 again. He won. The democrats lost. That is now ancient history. The fight isn't over the popular vote or the electoral college. That may be a fight for the future. The fight isn't over Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump. They both sucked as candidates, but the people spoke about which candidate they thought sucked...

The final nail has been driven into the coffin of American Conservatism with the passage of the Senate's latest "tax reform" bill. As a liberal, I spent my life debating true conservatives about our differing points of view. We rarely came to agreement but we were able to respect each other's positions on the issues. One of the reasons for this was that both liberals and conservatives were...