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• “The Pursuit of Happiness” — What Does America Mean?

  

  What did those words in the Declaration of Independence, the pursuit of happiness, really mean? This is explored in a book with that title by legal scholar... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Stark Choice

  

  Two roads diverged . . .The two national political conventions made our choice all the starker.I was struck that not a word at the Democratic event rang false.... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• In Memoriam: Alice Green

  

  Alice Green, 84, passed away suddenly on Tuesday. She was an Albany monument, fighting the good fight for justice for decades. She was my neighbor and I was... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Harris Should Promise Tonight

  

  . . . And here is one pledge I most solemnly make to you, my fellow Americans:If my opponent wins this election, I will do what 57 out of 58 previous losing... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why is Democracy an Issue?

  

  China’s rulers jeer at our messy democracy, deeming it more efficient to crack the whip. But being insulated from citizen accountability does not make for good... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Colleen Hoover: It Ends With Us

  

  I always glance over the NY Times weekly best-seller list, and started noticing the name Colleen Hoover, new to me. But not only did she make the list — she... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crooked Words

  

  I love words. A big part of my life. At my administrative jaw judge job, creating lengthy documents; authoring books; blogging; and in occasional newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Finding Mariniana in Rosemont

  

  (Reader advisory: some immodesty herein)Last year I wrote about the American Numismatic Association’s big annual coin show in Pittsburgh. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Joy Bangla!

  

  That’s the national slogan/war cry of Bangladesh. I remember it from the 1971 war. Bangladesh was originally part of Pakistan — “East Pakistan,” far removed... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Israel and Palestinians: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”

  

  Congressional Republicans shamed themselves (yet more) by inviting a mass murderer, Netanyahu, to address the chamber, giving him rapturous applause. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ever Viler and Sicker

  

  Columnist Thomas Friedman says Democrats should quit labelling Trump and company “weird.” Recalling Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” making Trumpers... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Coming of Age in American Poverty

  

  I’ve been extremely lucky in life. And I’m so tired of hearing that independent and charter schools “drain” resources from public education. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Frank

  

  You must be shocked to hear from me. Surely knowing I’ve never believed in you.Never asked you for anything before. Not even when I struggled to get a gal.I’m... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Right To Be An Asshole

  

  A local person, Troy Kelly, 19, was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, and detained on charges of threatening the President, a federal crime. He faces fiv... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Immigration, Crime, Politics, and Lies

  

  On May 14, 1938, Lotte Dreyfuss, 17, a Jewish refugee traveling alone from Nazi Germany, stood on a ship’s deck in New York harbor greeted by the Statue of... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thank You, President Biden

  

  Nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving it.Faced with a great choice between what he wanted to do, and the right thing to do, he did the right... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming End of America

  

  We face the end of America — the America I’ve so profoundly loved. I will be shattered.Through past episodes of mob madness, always in the broader population... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• War of the Gods in Mexico

  

  The AP story began, “The Gods must be angry — or just laughing.”Mexican authorities have ordered removal of a 10-foot statue of Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea,... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Shooting’s Victim: America

  

  America can’t seem to catch a break. Rather, event after event, without respite, piles on to doom us. The shooting just the latest coffin nail, driving the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• To Quit, Or Not To Quit

  

  , that is the question.Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous kvetching,Or to take arms against that sea of doubters,And b... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY