Year: 2026

Today is not like yesterday or the days before. As Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, said at Davos, there has been a rupture, only this time it is with us, average Americans who have come face-to-face with the authoritarian government we never thought would come. The killing of Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis by…

We’ve all seen what’s going on in Minneapolis, like the January 6th attack on the Capital we witnessed it on television. And as Groucho Marx said, “Who you gonna believe, me, or your own eyes?” The “me,” being the likes of vice president J. D. Vance, who quickly, without evidence, blamed Renee Good and the…

When I first saw this phrase in the news I couldn’t help but use it as a title for comments about the role of churches in the present crisis where the federal government is engaging in wholesale abuse of its citizens. “Dios Habla Hoy,” God Speaks Today, should be on the lips and minds of…

If you have read Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations, 1776) or even Ann Rand (Atlas Shrugged, 1957), you have a rationale for saving yourselves. And if you haven’t, their point is that self-interest drives much of what we do or believe. It is in our best interest to look out for ourselves. Knowing this, the…

You have to wonder what is going on with the United States. I know that Europeans and friends in the Americas do, if the few I correspond with are any indication. They think Trump is nuts. I keep wondering, too, what my Trump friends are thinking; I shudder to think that they might still support…

Without the several videos of the recent killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis her murder would have been quickly denied and covered up. And if you don’t believe this, look back on the tragic unprovoked murder of the young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, in Georgia February 2021. The case made the national news, and I…

This morning’s editorial entitled “The ICE Shooting in Minneapolis”* in The Wall Street Journal is the usual disingenuous attempt by Republican apologists to assuage Republican guilt. Time and time again after terrible tragedies they trot out their sanctimonious laments about “both sides being wrong.” The biggest fool among us knows that sending armed paramilitaries into…

Wait a day and another atrocity occurs brought about by Trump and his MAGA sycophants. What is happening plain and simple is the desecration of our country as we have known it. The ICE killing in Minneapolis was murder by Trump’s out of control personal militia and should be a wake-up call for all of…

Way back in 2016, those of us who did not vote for Trump did so because we believed he was not only unqualified but also that he was emotionally and mentally unfit for leadership. Above all, we suspected that he might do something crazy like start a nuclear war or perpetrate chaos in this country….

The first time I went to Venezuela, I had to pay a bribe to get back. It was December 1978 just before Christmas and the airlines were swamped with passengers coming and going. As I checked in at the VIASA counter, I was told I had no reservation though there I was holding a ticket…