Many of my readers will remember that I try to come up up with inspirational posts on appropriate government holidays to include the Fourth of July. I have been posting these on Active Rain since 2007. July 4 is the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in effect the o
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07/03/2020
It seems that I cannot get away from this title. Why? Because as the events on the news continue to assault my view of this country, I believe that the solution is to return to the basics of fundamental political thought upon which this country was founded and the infrastructure of religious fre
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06/11/2020
In a recent response to folks commenting on my blog post I explained that I have used the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident" in a number of titles of posts over the years. When I started to seek out an appropriate thought for this Memorial Day or perhaps the Fourth of July, I reali
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05/25/2020
It is mid-May and the world has turned upside down since my last post. The so-called pandemic of the Coronavirus (specifically COVID-19) was not on my radar at the end of January 2020. But it has changed the world in the three and a half months. But, oddly, it is not the topic about which I inten
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05/21/2020
The votes are in on the Impeachment Trial of President Trump. (without burying the lead... he is acquitted on both counts)The first Article of Impeachment (abuse of power) the vote was 48 Senators voted Guilty and 52 Senators voted Not Guilty. This represents a straight party-line vote with the
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02/05/2020
The House Managers have completed their 24hours (they actually used 21 hours), the Counselors for the President have completed their opening statements (in considerably less time, by the way) and the Senators have had 16 hours to ask questions - submitted to the Chief Justice who read them to the
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01/30/2020
I am not impressed with the first phase of the impeachment hearing. It doesn't seem that the needle is going to be moved in either direction. But the Democrats seem to be repetitive and unconvincing and seem to have a weak case on both Articles of Impeachment. My bias here is clear - but I hav
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01/24/2020
I am having trouble understanding Speaker Pelosi's point of view in delaying transmission of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. It has been well established that the process drawing Articles of Impeachment is the exclusive province of the House of Representatives. This means that the ho
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01/11/2020
This cartoon was from the mind of Bob Gorrell, published on 10/29/2019 on Townhall DailyMy Source: https://townhall.com/political-cartoons//2019/10/29/169182?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=10/29/2019&bcid=70816689ae0c8362c695a632709c80b1&recip=26622918Like all p
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10/29/2019
I was going through my DVD collection the other day and ran across "Seven Days in May", a political thriller from 1964 starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March and Ava Gardner. It is based upon the book by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey II. The screenplay was written by Rod Serl
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10/27/2019
