I’m a bit saddened and a bit outraged at how so many people, including our courts, mangle the Constitution in order to get it to support their position. The current debate over contraception, health insurance, and the Catholic Church is just another example of this. I don’t know who first said they’d view corporations [...]
Make no mistake. We are a nation divided. While the geography of this Civil War is different from the last one, the ideologies that create the divide are no so different. Look at the attacks on unions by the Republicans who are in control of state legislatures. What drives these if not the desire [...]
I’d like to preface my remarks here by saying I am not a supporter of gun control for a couple of reasons. First, it would work about as well as our war on drugs or Prohibition did. Second, guns are property and, if there was no Second Amendment, the people have the [...]
Forums are full of people who complain about what our current president and/or past presidents have done. Complaining is easy. Let’s try some “before the game” coaching for a change. For the purpose of this piece, YOU are being sworn into Congress or as President this January. Let us be honest enough [...]
The Post Office is one of those things in our lives we don’t think much about. Maybe we should. Today it faces forced extinction. For most of the 32 years I worked for the Postal Service, I was Chief Steward of the American Postal Workers Union at my local installation.
Some of [...]
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