Open letter to Congress
The time is coming when the members of, first the House, and then potentially the Senate will have to take the most important votes of their lives...
4th of July
All right, we can all relax now, the President did not hijack the 4th of July. It’s too big a celebration of our Nation’s founding, with too many events in cities and towns across the nation, for any one person to dominate. Sorry, Donald...
Something needs to be done (and it falls to the Congress to do it)
I have not been one to call for the impeachment of the President but given his increasingly erratic behavior however, something needs to be done and it falls to the Congress to do it...
This is the stuff of dictators
Someone needs to remind the President that he is the President of the United States -- and that means all of it. It means the people who voted against him, as well as those who voted for him...
We need to speak out
We truly are at a pivotal point in our history. The very foundations of our freedoms are being challenged as few times before and we need to care...
Trump’s rhetoric has deemed extremist behavior acceptable
The messages we speak to our children will reverberate in generations to come. And those words don’t merely stay in their heads, they quickly become actions. We need to look no further than the violence in Charlottesville to be reminded...
Trump and Health Care
Trump's call to "let Obamacare fail" and the hint that he might help to make that happen is unconscionable...
Denying Our History
By denying or hiding our history, we allow the myths to flourish. We are a great nation, but we have had periods of which we should be ashamed...
Nuclear threat
For those of us old enough to remember school bomb drills or the Cuban Missile crisis, the idea of another nuclear arms race is terrifying...
Stop It!
STOP IT. That’s what the American people were saying in the last election...