Keeping the Republic
I find it difficult and exhausting to participate in the American political process, and a big part of me would rather not do it at all.
View ArticleThe Not-So-Good Shepherd
“He’s not a war hero,” billionaire Donald Trump said of John McCain at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
View ArticleThe Constitution of our Constitution
Woman: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a Republic or a Monarchy?”Benjamin Franklin: “A Republic, if you can keep it."
View ArticlePartying Together
The worker bees of the American political process can be divided into two categories.
View ArticleWhat Have YOU Done?
On the eve of the first Republican presidential debate, Governor Jerry Brown laid down a gauntlet of a challenge to the field of Republican candidates running for President of the United States: “My...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts
One of my favorite commentators, the Stanford Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell, on occasion writes what he calls a "Random Thoughts" column, gathering an intriguing mix of short analyses on a wide...
View ArticleThe Yolo GOP at the Yolo County Fair
Oh the things you can learn by volunteering at the county fair for hours on end.
View ArticleIn Defense of Republicans, Part I
A challenge from a Democratic friend came the other day in the form of a semi-lengthy blog post on Vox.com by someone I've never heard of named David Roberts. While it was clearly written from a...
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