Month: December 2025

This year I decided to forego my own New Year’s Resolutions and instead suggest some that others might make for the new year. The idea is that the possibility of many making promises – rather than my often failed attempts – just might bring about some good for more of us. Americans might want to…

This holiday I came down with a rather bad case of the flu. After a visit to the ERgent Care and a follow-up with my doctor, I seem to be getting better. During this time I took leave from television, newspapers or even thinking about the state of our union. Upon my return to reality,…

The recently released National Security Strategy of the Trump administration to the uninformed or casual reader might sound plausible and positive, but it is nothing, if not disingenuous and shallow. It is a “slight of hand”attempt to deceive the American people, what one of my professors would have called “a smoke enema.” What the Document…

Somehow it feels like one of those times during a football game when you can sense the momentum changing inexorably in favor of the underdog. Slowly the dominance of the favorite team bleeds away and inevitably the challenger wins. I sense, I feel, and I see this happening to the United States. In football, mistakes…

I continue to struggle to understand the popularity of Trump and his policies. This especially disturbs me as I think of friends who continue to support this president in face of his amoral behavior and unprecedented policies. Increasingly, I’ve come to believe that lots of people really don’t follow the news, tune out information they…