Posted March 17, 2022in Morain
I’m sitting here trying to write a column about Ukraine that makes sense. It’s hard to know where to start. A few nations are blessed, or cursed, to be situated strategically between two or more superpowers, and consequently to suffer occupation after occupation with accompanying damage and death. Ukraine, the
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Posted March 09, 2022in Morain
For decades I’ve thought of myself as pretty much a liberal. I favor empowerment of average people, the right of all individuals to decide their own value system, a living wage for working people, no discrimination in law and employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
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Posted February 28, 2022in Morain
Since it’s an election year, with the June primaries only about three months away, it might be time for an update of the Politispeak Dictionary. Some candidates, especially those in politically balanced districts or states (“purple” is the buzzword descriptor), have sharpened to a fine point the art of avoiding
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Posted February 22, 2022in Morain
Some historians and constitutional law scholars for the past year or so have argued that the 14th Amendment prevents Donald Trump from once again serving as President, or indeed from holding any elective office. The power of that argument no doubt depends on the findings of the U.S. House select
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