What a dumb question. While I do not have the polling data to back this up, I suspect that even the staunchest conservative and religious enthusiast agree that a husband […]
I wrote this post the day I finished the Mueller report. All it needed was an edit and grammar check. That was 6 days ago. Six days in our current […]
I would love to understand AG Barr’s thought processes these last few weeks. His public statements about this report, while not outright lies, were incredibly “misleading.” I continue to work […]
Michael Moore said it best Friday night during his appearance on MSNBC’s The Last Word. Ali Velshi, sitting in for Lawrence O’Donnell had Moore for a late hour discussion on the upcoming […]
Friday nights used to be routine: throughout the week, the White House Press Office would save all of its big and controversial announcements to literally “dump” them on the public […]
I just finished, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar. A detailed and well-documented history of suffrage laws in the United States, Keyssar […]
Last weekend, I visited the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The two share a common space and opened on the same day, December […]
I’m back. A short hiatus from blogging turned into a much longer and protracted interruption these last few months. Not from lack of controversies to discuss, my absence in the cybersphere […]
Real power is —- I don’t even want to use the word —– fear.” Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March […]
For better or worse, I read articles before commenting and try to listen beyond the soundbite making the news. I remember a lot from Professor Sanders Poli Sci courses at […]
My favorite stop on this year’s presidential tour was Montpelier, home of James and Dolley Madison. Located a few miles outside of Orange, Virginia along Constitution Highway, Montpelier was the […]
George Mason, the founding father with a REAL copyright infringement claim George Mason never made it to the White House. In fact, he never even tried. As a landed Virginia […]
Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein’s announcement today ricocheted through the halls of Congress, off the walls of the White House, up to 5th Avenue in New York City, and finally across […]
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, a relatively small town 45 minutes west of Charlottesville. The future president (28th) lived in Staunton with his family – his father was […]
Monticello High atop Montalto mountain sits Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s neoclassical, Palladian mansion, the centerpiece of his once 5,000-acre tobacco and mixed crop plantation. Located outside of Charlottesville, Monticello offers extensive […]
Berkeley Plantation Located outside Charles City, Virginia, Berkeley Plantation dates back to the 1600s. An original settlement, named after Berkeley, England, it survived just over 2 years before settlers were […]
My first blog post was on Facebook in January 2017. It was before Trump’s inauguration and like most progressives, I was doing my best to cope with the reality of […]