“The reason many are not shocked about [Trump’s abuse of power] is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.” – Mark Galli, editor in […]

“We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do […]

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” – Aldous Huxley   Trump and his Republican toadies including my Congressman, Michael Burgess, (Tx-26), in glasses standing just to […]

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” ― William Shakespeare, Richard […]

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson A study earlier this year found what most of us already suspected – we […]

  Headlines about vaping expressing fears that it may become the latest national health problem are drawing concerns from the public, even Donald Trump supposedly and the First lady. While […]

This is the final piece on a four-part series.  Parts I, II and III can be found here, here and here.   America’s Culure of Violence Addressing the culture of […]