I was a young woman when the youth movement of the 1960's started up. I graduated from high school in 1971 and it was an era when we were wearing armbands at the very least, and some people were...
Maybe this is the new normal. I can tell you from knowing people who grew up on ranches that kids learn how to shoot at an early age in rural America. But there's a difference between learning how to...
If this woman is still in Congress in 2022, I will lose all hope for our country, and certainly all respect for the people of that congressional district. I'm from Colorado. I was born in Denver and went to...
It's a moment tailor made for Cecil B DeMille. Charlton Heston, clad in a snowy white robe, and holding a long woof staff, climbs a dais, raises his arms on high, and spreads the sea of turmoil currently surrounding...
If you missed Donald Trump's listless monotone performance reading the teleprompter Monday morning, he squandered whatever small measure of goodwill he may have built up with his bombast about taking action against gun violence, by mistakenly consoling the residents...
I remember a friend who told me that during the Viet Nam era he opted to become a teacher, so that he could stay out of a horrible, unjust war. Now, teaching itself is participating in war, at least...
I marvel at whatever political machinery it is which keeps Ken Paxton and people like him in pubic office. I simply marvel. And with the trend in Texas being that the growing Hispanic population is voting more and more...
Most of you are familiar by now with the concept of Coattails, since I have written several times that I've never seen a politician with shorter ones than Trump. Briefly, the concept is that a popular candidate, usually an incumbent at...
The image you see is one that alleged El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius liked on Twitter. That makes sense. Donald Trump pumps out racist and divisive rhetoric on a daily basis and excites the lunatic fringe. So, it's no...
In any other politician's life, a statement like Marjorie Taylor Greene just made today, "the reality is murder is legal," would be a statement that would define them and dog them and haunt them forevermore. Yet, who knows if...

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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