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Last spring, progressives in the Washington state legislature, backed by Planned Parenthood, mandated that all public schools must teach sensible, practical sex education. The goal: to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce sexual disease, save gi…
Slap in the Face for People Suffering Across America: Covid Relief Deal Watered-Down
POVERTY POLITICS--In the wake of Sunday night's agreement on a roughly $900 billion Covid-19 relief package that is far smaller than econom…
First In the Room, Back of the Line: America's Profiteering Health System Does It Again
GUEST COMMENTARY--With Pfizer's welcome COVID-19 vaccine here, so are America's unwelcome rich and privileged, clamoring for their entitled…
QAnon Doesn’t Make Sense, but its Popularity Does
CONSPIRACY THEORIES-The Eye of Providence on the back of the $1 bill has become symbolic of secret societies and conspiracy theories more g…
Are Americans Psychopaths?
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM-Here’s a tiny fact. 300,000 Americans are dead of a preventable lethal illness.
Biden's Compassion Matters to World's Poor
VIEW FROM HERE-While President Trump pouts and plots, and President-elect Biden anticipates and appoints, there is an October news clipping…
'Republican Party Doesn't Give a Damn About You': McConnell Admits Direct Checks Only Included to Help GOP Win in Georgia
POLITICS-After opposing another round of stimulus checks for months in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and widespread sufferi…
Biden . . . Won (Maybe) (satire)
ELECTION EXPOSED---Following is an excerpt from the diary of outgoing President Donald Trump, apparently written in early December 2020. T…
VA Secretary Focused on Smearing Woman Who Said She Was Sexually Assaulted in a VA Hospital, Probe Finds
TRUMP’S UNKEPT PROMISES-Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie showed “a lack of genuine commitment” to addressing a high-profile sexual…
Were the Trump Years America’s Rock Bottom?
PERSPECTIVE--If you’re American, take a moment to congratulate yourself. You’ve just survived the tenure of the worst President in American…
Failing Students Need Support, Not Blame
OTHER WORDS-As the semester ends, I fear many of my students will fail my class.
Is the President-to-be Embracing Climate Change Realism
PERSPECTIVE--Our post-election hope couldn’t be more fragile.
This Holiday Season, Choose a New Food Future
OTHER WORDS--America certainly has an abundance of food, even though many Americans do not.
The Other Winner This Election: Fact-Checking
PERSPECTIVE--Firing by the defeated President of the federal cybersecurity director who stated the Nov. 3 election was “the most secure in…
‘Nones’ Elected Biden-Harris
THE REAL REASON BIDEN WON-Americans who say their religion is “none” delivered the White House to the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket in the…
The Sad Pathetic and Disgusting State of What Was Once the Republican Party
POLITICS-There is no doubting at this point that the Republican Party as it was known, is no more.
Paying Politicians to Criminalize Protest
OTHER WORDS-A few years ago, massive protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock changed the popular narrative about what…
Biden’s Opportunity to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
WORLD WATCH-Recently I had an opportunity to brief a group of European diplomats and journalists on a variety of conflicts, with a focus on…
Trump Stole the Election from Himself, Here’s How
MY TURN--From a political perspective, Donald Trump's behavior is utterly nonsensical.
Is Thanksgiving Going to Be a Covid Hyper-Spreader Event?
GUEST WORDS--Covid in America is so bad that more than 250,000 people are dead.
