Just another reminder to Trump voters and non-voters in the Presidential election – here is what you own now. Two recent selections are Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education – DeVos is a person who has not attended public schools and her children have never attended public schools. She has no background in education nor […]
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It is hard to believe that both of these ideas are on my mind at the same time. It is hard to acknowledge, but I had thought that our country and its awareness were much further along regarding racial relations – but clearly it is not. I also have to admit that I was […]
I did not think I would be writing about this subject in this way just 24 hours ago, but here goes. I cannot speak in the voices of women, Muslims, the disabled, the African Americans, the Latinos or the many others that have been diminished and demeaned by Trump in this campaign, but […]
This is an appeal to veterans after the Trump response to Khizr Kahn and his speech at the DNC. Kahn asked Trump to tell us what he has sacrificed. Trump has had two responses – one was his mealy mouthed response that he has sacrificed – he has created jobs – he has made […]
My first work on a presidential campaign began in 1972 when I worked on the McGovern campaign. McGovern by the way was the person that opened the Democratic primary process to women and people of color and ran on a platform to get us out of Vietnam. He lost to Nixon – who […]
I have been watching the RNC – I admit not for very long periods of time because the hatred that I see in the faces of some of the delegates and the demeaning language that spews from the mouths of some of the speakers is difficult to listen to before my eardrums burst. […]
I am sick of the killings. I don’t want black men shot in the streets. I don’t want cops shot by a sniper. I don’t want children shot in schools. I do not want any of this. When I began writing this blog entry only the Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights shootings had […]
There was an editorial response to Gov. Wolf’s veto in the Sunday Inquirer – it can be found at this link http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160529_Commentary__With_veto__Wolf_puts_unions_ahead_of_students.html The editorial was written by Sharif El-Mekki, a principal at a Mastery Charter School, and is critical of the veto because it “puts unions ahead of students.” El-Mekki suggests that […]
The first date is April 4, 1968 – the date of Martin Luther King’s assassination. The second date is April 5th – my birthdate. At this time each year I find myself reflecting on the conjunction of those two dates. First – the birthday – I have never been a huge fan of celebrating […]
I really should have known better and hindsight told me that I would have been correct – never take the word of a native Minnesotan that he knows what he is doing when it comes to shark hunting in the Red Sea. I was stationed in Ethiopia when I was in the service many decades […]
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