Light then Dark
WHEN WILL IT BE SAFE TO BREATHE? Safe Harbor passed. The first step in getting the electoral votes counted. I breathed a small sigh of relief. Within days, the State of Texas led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [...]
January 2021
December 2020
Tradition or Sedition?
DEMOCRACY IN THE BALANCE December 11, 2020. Two important developments in the attempted coup: 1.Texas has now filed a suit against Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia claiming that their elections were fraudulent and should be thrown out. Yesterday 17 [...]
Our Democracy is Holding- So Far
A PORT IN THE STORM It is December 10, 2020. The "safe harbor " date has now passed. There should be no further claims that Donald Trump has won the election. All of the states have certified the results [...]
October 2020
An American Tragedy Foretold
A DEMOCRACY NO MORE It is not a question of whether Trump is going to undermine the election. He is doing it now. He has been doing it for months. While the contemporary Republican Party has a shameful history [...]
September 2020
A Coup in the Offing?
SILENCE=COMPLICITY "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men [and women] to do nothing."–Edmund Burke "Well, we're going to have to see what happens...You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the [...]