Inside accomplices threaten democracy.
Category: America in Crisis
Election 2024 (#2)
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Election 2024 (#1)
Justice Michael Luttig, retired, and Other Republicans support Harris
I Am Pro-Life
I am pro-life. I don’t believe in having an abortion, so I won’t get one. I am almost eighty-one years old, and I would like to live many more years, especially if I can have health, mobility, mental capacity–in short, be as I was at sixty-five. Nice. I am pro-life. I am also pro-life: for […]
Hate and Violence
American vice–Un-American, Anti-American
Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow
Wow! This is a combination worth listening to.
New York Times guest editorial by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
reprinted in Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sept. 2023
Saving Democracy
I am posting a copy of a guest editorial written by two professors of government at Harvard University, entitled “Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices.” Please read it carefully. Even though you may have supported Mr. Trump in the past, you have a responsibility to consider and act as a defender of democracy rather than as […]
Reform, not Pack, Supreme Court
I recently read a fascinating opinion piece in the New York Times, in which Ezra Klein posits several suggestions made by the commission appointed by President Biden last January or February. The title is “What a Reckoning at the Supreme Court Could Look Like” and appeared in this morning’s copy of the Times. Click the […]
Call to Action
I agree with Representative Liz Cheney on perhaps only one issue. On all other issues, particularly concerning policy issues, I disagree with her. The one issue on which I agree takes precedence at this hour in our history. The Constitution of the United States must be protected from those who would destroy it. She […]