Opinion

  • A’int America Great?

    With the chaos going on in D.C. and the wholesale clearing house approach to firing federal employees to ensure only loyalists remain as employees, it is a travesty. Career employees don’t work with political aspirational thoughts. In fact, there is the Hatch Act that is to maintain a federal workforce that is free from partisan…

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    Federal Chaos

    We’re in the midst of the first hundred days Trump Ver.2.0. Most of us, correction, probably everyone is flabbergasted at the seemingly illegal use of Executive Orders and yet so many, in an effort to justify their vote, are making excuses for the chaotic effort by this administration. The do-nothing Congress has pushed all of…

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    Some Thoughts

    I, like so many others, are stumped by the election of Trump. I’ve had a steady diet of talk shows utterly repulsed by his actions, speech, and overall lack of class. You would think this country would have avoided him like the plague and in some respects they did. If you look at the overall…

  • Forty-Three Days

    We are now forty-three days from November fifth and the vote that could change the world, forever, via change for inclusion or change to reverting to some past perceived normalcy. I get that this statement is exactly what most Americans are feeling, but seemingly so many are wanting change and are willing to risk our…

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    Hope

    About sixteen years ago, then Senator Barrack Obama came out with a book called “The Audacity of Hope”. I used to see this book on the shelf and be very cynical about it. I was a John McCain fan. He was a hero for crying out loud, but he also showed great courage in backing…

  • Primary Results and More

    So many things are going on right now. The Primaries for many states are concluding and we are seeing a pattern to who we’ll see on the ballot. Numerous MAGA candidates are not making the cut with voters, but then there are those districts and states that have surprising results. Most notable to me, coming…

  • A Sunrise on the Lake

    All my life I thought I’d end up living on a lake and waking to one of the best feelings I think one can have, experiencing the morning with a sunrise coming up over a lake. All mornings are special in the fact that you get a new day, cleansed by the night before, to…