Pray?
I recently read in the November 13th issue of The New York Times Magazine that an evangelist named Ralph Drollinger has been conducting weekly “Bible study” meetings for the Trump Cabinet. To be fair, not all the cabinet members attend (the meetings are apparently not mandatory), and a number of the attendees aren’t even Cabinet […]
Boo!
For a more assertive view of the booing that Trump recently received at a World Series game, see Eric Levitz’s article here: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/nationals-trump-boo-lock-him-up-chant-morning-joe-coons.html He makes a valid and – I believe – persuasive point.
Just Politics
I am consumed by impeachment news, glued to CNN, fascinated by each day’s revelations about Trump, his cohorts, supporters, and enemies, and the public reaction. Each upward tick of “for impeachment and removal” gets my applause and approval. I am living through a historic time, waiting for the denouement, knowing that – whatever the outcome […]
Dilemma
Yesterday, September 26, 2019, Joseph Maguire, the acting Director of National Intelligence, testified before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee regarding a whistleblower’s complaint that he withheld from Congress beyond the prescribed timeline for submitting such documents. He opened his testimony with some remarks about his long service in the military and in the government, […]
Another Voice
Shoot
The old saying is “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people”; let’s amend that just a bit: “Guns don’t kill people; people with guns kill people” in record numbers. Isn’t that enough to change the laws in the United States?
They Know Better
The news is full of the recent withdrawal of John Ratcliffe’s nomination for head of the National Security Administration – thank goodness! So, another nominee of Trump bites the dust. It’s getting very dusty in here, hmmph. What no one seems to be focusing on is what, to me, is becoming a clearer image of […]
Apology
Our Shame
This was written the day before a photo of a drowned father and 2-year-old daughter was published; they had applied for legal immigration and were denied. Apparently desperate, the father and his family tried to cross illegally. The history of America – my homeland – is not all celebration and fireworks. Perhaps all nations share […]
Paying Forward
In 1988, when my father was 85 and sick, he was told that he would have to go to a nursing home for full-time care. Instead, he asked to “go home” to the Philippines. He had left there in 1922, come to America to study agriculture with the intention of returning home to take over […]