Like most of you probably, I am marking time looking to the future with both optimistic anticipation and some trepidation. It is Sunday, January 17, 2021, as I write these words and think about what the coming week will bring for all of us and the country. For me, at least, it is a heady…

Peggy Noonan’s article, “Liz Cheney Shows What Real Leadership Looks Like,” in this morning’s Wall Street Journal has pleased the Democrats and provoked a minor firestorm by conservatives. A letter to the editor, for example, accused her of “joining the media mob” while giving a pass to the Black Lives Matter riots this past summer. …

My naivete knows no limits apparently. Each day I read The Wall Street Journal, paying special attention to the front page and the opinion and editorial pages. Each day I take note of the headlines and lead stories. I read the letters to the editor to take the pulse of readers for possible changes in…

I wasn’t going to write anything today about politics because of how fast things are changing. Indeed, the situation continues to be so volatile that we really don’t know with any certainty what is going to happen. This is new ground on which we have not tread before. As the news continues to break this…

A couple years ago, more or less, I had dinner with a good friend who welcomed that Trump was shaking things up. In his view, there was something rotten with the two major parties, especially the Democrats whose angst and “squealing” delighted him. While he did not vote for either Trump or Clinton back in…

“Black Wednesday,” January 6, 2021, will long be remembered and written about as the day that American democracy faltered. As time passes, pundits and partisans will take sides to analyze and spin the event to suit their cause. But make no mistake about it, this single day was the end result of one single vote…

Frankly, I don’t know what to write. I’m stunned! January 6, 2021, will go down in infamy as the day that America lost the high ground and with it the last of its innocence. I vacillate between anger and embarrassment. What do I say; what can I say? The Trump incited storming of the Capitol…

As a “naturalized” citizen of Georgia, I have never been prouder of my adopted state. Whatever happens going forward, the state has made great strides in stepping up and doing the right thing by all its citizens. The results of Tuesday’s election are a move to the center, the place where, in my opinion, American…

Tony Sousa, 1933 – 2021 I was not a lifelong friend of Tony’s, but I knew him as a friend for more than fifteen years. During this time I learned much from him about being a better person as well as from his rich life experiences. That is why I frequently used the honorific Spanish…

Let me see if I understand where we are in our politics. The president is claiming he won the election, and his lieutenants are saying so, too. Further, much of the citizenry – that’s us – are going along with this. And the electoral college vote was 306 for Biden and 270 for Trump. The…