Peaceful Freedom

    Failing to inspire enough voters to win re-election, failing to reverse the results with over sixty failed lawsuits, failing to strong-a...

As Marie Yovanovich, ousted Ukraine ambassador, was testifying to the House Intelligence Committee this week, Trump trashed her in a tweet. ...

It's been a long wait.  Yesterday afternoon, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi pulled the plug on the Trump presidency.  She called for...

The President of the USA, a dear TV memory to many still-loyal fans, appears to be on the verge of indictment for lying under oath. His sw...

The elections are over.  The House of Representatives is now owned by Democrats.  Committees can subpoena and examine Trump's tax retur...

After claiming for months and months that no collusion with the Russians occurred, Trump has admitted that in fact it did - and his son may ...

To win office, a candidate needs to campaign. Campaigns cost money - for advertising, for staffing, for people to man the phone banks and to...

Day 100 of the Trump Administration has come and gone. Two grand juries have convened to investigate Russian influence on the election. On...

The 'divide and conquer' strategy used by Mr. Trump works when both parts can then be conquered. This worked for Stalin - first he...

It seems quite wonderful that we whites are now digesting the notion of white privilege. It’s very subtle. Next, can we look at ...

I'm concerned about whether a rational two-party system can survive. Two feet make us mobile. Two eyes let us see depth. Two parties -...

What may happen, now that Trump has been elected... Continuing klutziness. The gaffes will continue. His tweets will drive the news on slo...

The president-elect has become a nightmare for Republicans. An embarrassment that grows and grows. As a candidate, Trump called for Russia...

The votes against Hillary Clinton outnumbered the votes against Donald Trump - except that they didn't. In ten days, the Electoral Col...

Good fortune allowed me to view this evening the third and final U.S. Presidential debate. The difference in personal style between the ca...

One curious trait that leads Republicans to stumble is that they often cannot foresee the results of their own actions. Their inability to ...

Forget cable. Forget network news. The information revolution has just subsumed it. Today, the leadership of the House of Representative...

As I gave my boyfriend a quick kiss before he hopped on the uptown bus yesterday, it shook me to realize that the sight of two guys kissing ...

In 1953, when George Jorgensen had his genitals snipped and became the media darling Christine Jorgensen, my 11 year-old schoolmates, on se...

I was raised in a home where we would discuss things at the dinner table and hold a vote. Would we go to the little lake up the road tomorro...

Eleven candidates for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Presidency have been competing with one another. The very mathematics of it - t...

Censorship, to the extent a government can get away with it, is the beginning of totalitarianism. Remember Ray Bradbury's "Fahren...

In Minneapolis, white supremacists who had previously been counter-protesting a Black Lives Matters demonstration over the police killing o...

Senator Bernie Sanders, contending with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic presidential candidate, has intro...

This would be a great way to make money. Send law enforcement officers to charm school. The reduction in risk of lawsuit payouts for bad pol...

Guantanamo still holds prisoners who have been there for years and never been charged with a crime. It is force-feeding prisoners who are tr...

Chelsea Manning, who, as Bradley Manning shared to the world the video taken by an American helicopter as its gunners casually shot reporter...

The US Supreme Court has decided that the right to marry does not depend on gender. Any single adult can marry any other single adult. T...

Five years ago, a gay couple in the U.S. wanting a full legal marriage could do so only a in handful of states. In the rest of the world, th...

Drug warrior Michelle Leonhart has resigned as head of the DEA. A resignation under fire - she failed to fully investigate the subversio...

Cannabis is perceived by the FDA as having no medicinal use. So they put it in their " worst drugs " category: " ... drugs ...

A race war he thought he would start. Instead, the world saw those whose loved ones he had killed forgive him and pray for his soul. Cha...

When I was a child, we pledged allegiance to "one nation, indivisible" in school every day. Or pretended to do so, if we happened ...

Last month, Indiana passed a law allowing gays to be shunned by local businesses. Businesses didn't have to serve people they thought we...