I came late to the bash Lieberman party. Orthodoxy, or knee jerkism has never much appealed to me and I do not expect or even want politicians to agree with me on every issue. I voted for Presidents Carter and...
A great piece which really explains the issue, how backward we have become in this area and what the stakes are. They report:While every American may be entitled to at least adequate health care, he is not getting it, and...
If you are of a certain age, you have heard this so many times, you can probably probably feel the beat when it gets played again and again.As we watch a nearly dysfunctional legislative process try to accomplish what strong majorities of Americans...
The forums created by modern technology allowing for the expressions of pain that some of us feel so often to be heard by those willing to listen provide for sort of an inexpensive therapy, and there is always the chance...
The link here is to the Official Explanation of why, in the current view, the mere threat of a filibuster, is the same as an actual filibuster and why it takes sixty votes to pass a bill in the Senate and not...
I know. These pages are meant for the weighty issues of our time, but I have written my diary of the week about such things and now find it is time to contemplate the winter....
I do not know what to do about Afghanistan. Though I was in high school when this question arose about another war, I did not know what to do about Vietnam either, but I did learn a few things watching...
Forty-six years ago, the President of the United States, the youngest ever elected as President, addressed the civil rights issues facing the nation and explained the core reason why they had to be resolved:We are confronted primarily with a moral issue....
Something is very wrong. You know it and, as Senator Robert Dole used to say in another context,"the American people know it." We no longer sound like the people of the United States. We are not the country of hope...
With a few exceptions, all memorable, I have not attended religious services even on, as today, Rosh Ha-shana. I do not fast on Yom Kippur. I have allowed others to convince me that I am less than a good Jew...
Before we get too wrapped up in the shame of it all, or whether the President was telling the truth or not when he was called a liar, may I just ask why a person who needs medical care should...
Our system of government is not generally amenable to Big Ideas or to enacting the platform of a strong leader. Our founders had enough of the royal prerogative and sought to retard the ability of a single leader to impose...
The second it was posted, the inveterate blogger knew it was a mistake. He is not on deadline; he does not get a dime from these scribblings. Why rush it? Why pile on while everybody (including some who feel guilty about...
Many have much to say, some more personally close to Senator Kennedy, some with greater public office or accomplishment than my own. The question is, therefore, why add to the pile. The answer comes from Senator Kennedy: For all those whose...
It is hard for some of us to post regularly during most of the year, and harder still in the summer. The work that pays the bills tends to increase in the summer, and it did this year, and then...
Pressed for time, and the increased demands of an adult daughter, a former wife, and work it becomes difficult to mount the Paul Revere horse as often as the need seems to arise....
It seems as if I am never where everyone else is. Michael Jackson meant nothing to me. I follow popular music almost as religiously as I do baseball, politics, and a few other things (though, mostly, not religion) but my...
No. I don't mean that there is anything surprising about tonight's revelation that it was the Vice President from the late administration who directed the CIA to conduct some activities without any notice at all to Congress, hardly news to...
This may require some careful use of your powers of imagination and, maybe a dash or two of poetic or historical license. You will need to ignore today's geo-political realities, particularly the military power available to powers big and small...
There are so many things to write about this week, how government that is not responsive to the people it serves is not only useless, but destructive (that means you Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi---the public wants national health care...
