“When did we as a country lose the ability to debate calmly and find common ground in order to solve problems? Was it one big event or a series of them?” I saw this question on Twitter as an inquiry to the wonderful Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station, maybe the most intelligent blog site I’ve …
I’m worried, and I hope I’m more worried than I need to be. What is most bizarre about it is that some of the people I’m worried for are … imagine this … Republicans. Georgia Republicans. A few weeks ago, I had about as much affection for them as Jake and Elwood Blues had for …
I have little or so use for the Republican Party’s latest blonde. Unlike Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, though, Georgia’s Kelly Loeffler was appointed to the state to fill a vacancy in December 2019 when Sen. Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons. I’m not going to go into her issues or ever talk about why …
Let’s start with the fact that I have no use at all for 65-year-old Republican Congressman Ted Yoho(ho) of Florida. It actually hurts me to call him a crazy old coot and then realize he’s five — soon to be six — years younger than I am. But I can tell you at any age …
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” To clarify, that’s mad as in insane, not mad as in angry. Otherwise there would be a great deal more destruction going on. This quote is often attributed to Euripides, but it actually dates back only three or four hundred years, appearing in Longfellow’s “Masque …
I wrote the following manifesto more than 13 years ago, with the help of a dozen or so other contributors in the search for a political party that could find a middle ground between Democrats and Republicans.If you read it, you will see that issues that have become much more prominent since 2007 aren’t even …
