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What’s Missing in Us Today?
There’s no question that 2022 has been a gloomy and cruel year: political wars; culture wars; truth wars. For the first time in more than 100 years, America is at war with itself. Many have succumbed to lies and disinformation. Many have surrendered to hate and violence to justify those false beliefs. For many, Christmas seems an afterthought. Like the...
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Add Senator Robert Menendez to The List
Are you getting as tired as I am about scandal after scandal coming out of Washington. In he past, despite divisions, Senators and Representatives managed...
Those Who Choose Not To Remember The Past
Moderate House Republicans have been run over by their hard-right colleagues who continue their reckless abandonment of reason—all in fealty to a demagogue who, if...
We’ve Seen This Movie Before, and We Didn’t Like It Then
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana, American writer, and philosopher Embed from Getty Images After watching much...
Moral Will
“A large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” That dead-on description offered up by Senate Republican Mitt Romney not only explains...
A Profile in Courage, Revisited
UPDATE: We’re heading into the home stretch for the release of “Trust and Confidence” which is expected to become available no later than September 28 ...
America’s Character Revisited
With a country facing confusion, division, dissension with no apparent way out, I’m revisiting my commentary from November 2021 in the hopes that we can...