Thanks be to Minnesotans who are protesting the presence of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Thanks to journalists who are writing, reporting, and motivating fellow Americans to voice their concerns about the flagrant violations of Americans’ basic constitutional rights. Thanks to Americans in numerous places protesting against governmental overreach. Pete Buttigieg recently spoke on YouTube about […]
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Peaceful Resistance
Today (5 Oct. 2025) in church, one of the readings of the scriptures was Habakkuk1:1-4, 2:1-4. My version of the Bible is the King James version, while the version used at church is a more modern English translation, so my writing here at home differs somewhat from what was spoken today. Regardless, I wish to […]
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Democracy vs. Autocracy
I created a post in 2023 which I feel now is critically important for the American electorate to review. The post included excerpts from a guest opinion piece in the New York Times, written by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, professors of government at Harvard, “Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices,” https://www.nytimes.com/ 2023/09/08/opinion /trump-republicans-spain-brazil.html [accessed […]
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Congress, Where Are You?
In the midst of the furor over the president’s tariffs, Nicolle Wallace had couple of people on her MSNBC program, Deadline: White House, in which one of the guests specifically placed the responsibility of this chaos created by the tariffs upon our “do nothing” Congress. I propose you all write your representatives in the […]
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Threat to Democracy
Inside accomplices threaten democracy.
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Election 2024 (#2)
Why Vote?
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Hate and Violence
American vice–Un-American, Anti-American
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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
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