VOICES

GUEST COMMENTARY - So, when does MSNBC talking head and former US Senate staffer and hit show West Wing writer-producer Lawrence O’Donnell call for a referendum to call a Constituent Assembly to re-write the 18th century aristo-republican charter that disastrously governs US politics and policy in the 21st Century United States?

GUEST COMMENTARY - So said the late conservative journalist M Stanton Evans, It is commonplace, even among Republicans, to label the Republicans ‘the stupid party’, while lambasting the Democrats as ‘the evil party’.

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - Minority rule is killing America.

NEXT GEN - It’s graduation season, which is usually joyful. But many graduates aren’t in a celebratory mood this year — a lesson Vice President Kamala Harris recently learned the hard way.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Profiteering by Chevron and Walmart, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has been highlighted by the obscene amounts of money made during the pandemic. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - “Lying, thieving, hypocritical prigs” pretty much sums up the United States judiciary. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Hello again, friends. 

DEEGAN ON LA—Without “force majeure”—an act of God for which no party can be held accountable—Rick Caruso may not be a loser in the June 7 Primary race for Mayor.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Cassandra was the daughter of Troy’s King Priam, and she warned him that if King Priam’s son Paris went to Sparta and brought back Helen, who was Sparta’s King Menelaus’ wife, the Greeks would attack and destroy Troy. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Ain't this a time o'plenty! 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - This could have been the headline of one of any number of articles published in the last couple of years. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - We Americans like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly modern people — living proof of what, with enough toil and grit, the rest of the free world can one day hope to be.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body.

MY THOUGHTS - In the sixties, I was 21 years old, married and had a full-time job as an Associate Editor on a small trade magazine. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - On April 21^st I went to the Top Notch Diner in Cortland OH. Senate candidate Josh Mandel appeared with retired General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor in the Trump administration.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Exacerbated by the news that this summer the Supreme Court is poised to overturn a half a century of precedent by declaring Roe unconstitutional, men must leave the sidelines in this national reproductive rights emergency.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - I cannot imagine what it is like to be a woman in the United States of America today.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Reports about what has been the most horrific assault yet on human rights by the US Supreme Court in modern times started trickling out on Monday. Our fears and imaginations ran rampant. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Preliminary Note about Roe vs Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

SCOTUS - The Politico release of the unprecedented leak of the initial draft majority opinion that indicates the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade has unleashed a tidal wave of responses from politicians.