Category: Commentary
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Where We Are, Biden’s Tough First Year
The struggles, obstacles, challenges, and threats that our nation and her people face today have not relented with legislation, executive order, public health guidance, or learning from our own direct experience. It’s true, many people are upset. It makes sense they would focus their ire at our political leaders.
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Dems Should Tackle the Issues, Not Each Other
If Democratic candidates and current legislators would take a break from attacking each other, they might realize the real threats are much larger and longterm than any disagreements they have with one another.
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Filibuster or not to Filibuster. That isn’t the question.
Sometimes, we don’t get our way in a democracy. That is a fundamental part of what makes democracy function. We are not a monolithic people. It is our individuality, coupled with our ability to work together, that has made America the nation it is.
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Economic, Pandemic, Political Threat Looms for Restaurants
Restaurants across the nation are in trouble. Not many policymakers are even talking about what is happening to these small businesses in nearly every town and city in America.
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A Brief History of Fear in American Politics: AIDS, 9/11 to Covid19
The need to have a villain does conjure memories of the fear tactics by the Christian right involved with the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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Doing the Difficult
Let’s hope Biden was honest when he said he would be the President for all Americans, regardless of what candidate they voted for in this election. The pandemic has only intensified and deepened the issues within the education system as well as every other aspect of basic living and survival. And, yet, Americans may not…
