IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION, the Democratic Party appears to resemble the Vegas gambler who bets his or her entire savings on a single throw of the dice.  This worries me as a concerned Democrat who desperately wants to see the...
Three years ago, Michael Bloomberg, a fellow New Yorker, former Mayor of New York City, a capitalist for real warned us about this cheap con man. Three years ago, Hillary Clinton, a fellow presidential candidate, an experienced public servant, a...
In days this dark, we all need something to let us just sit back, celebrate the fondness of life and mankind, and feel a little better about ourselves. And I am happy to say that I have just the...
D-Day, June 6 will be marked next week.  It is every year and it should be.  That terrible "Longest Day" in 1944 was the final turning of the tide that defeated Hitler's war machine.  I'm in my mid-sixties so...
It's our nation's birthday.  It no longer feels like it used to and certainly not the way it did back in my first 26 years living in my small southern Illinois hometown.  The several days of festivities in Riverside...
We lost John Lewis (D-Ga) tonight. I have no words to describe my sorrow or the loss we suffered. So this article will be short. Lewis passed after a short but intense battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped up to join other civil...
The pandemic inevitably affected every aspect of people's lives. Lockdowns shut down whole industries and businesses as employees and customers stayed home - and the effects were cumulative. Even now, as a massive vaccination program gradually eases social restrictions,...
Understand that there is no case law, in other words no legal precedent, that has ever stated that a sitting President cannot be charged, or indicted for committing a crime.  That is fact.  There are only four government memos, some as...
I'm a life long Democrat and I desperately want Biden to win. Right now -- based on current polls, public denunciations of Trump by Mattis and Romney and even Kelly, peaceful public demonstrations like nothing we’ve seen before, the revelations by Bolton, and the latest Supreme Court rulings on DACA – popular...
Excuse me while I do not join the crowd of liberal legal pundits who are jumping for joy at the “good fortune” of the Supreme Court’s decision on the criminal investigation into whether Donald Trump’s Crime Incorporated Group of...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead