America has been a grand experiment. The very essence of its ideas were light years ahead of its time when the founders first thought them, publicly stated them and wrote them down on parchment nearly two and a half centuries ago. Democratic self-governance of a nation and nearly all that went along with it was…
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The State and the Union
In the two years since a lethal contagion forced us all into lockdown, much has happened in the World and the USA. Much has also happened along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. We all who have survived a global pandemic thus far have demonstrated the ability to do what needed to…
Continue ReadingRoe v Wade at 49
The Supreme Court decision that ultimately granted female citizens the privacy to assume control over their own reproductive health has been the law for less than half a century. In spite of this, there are more people living now who have never known America without Roe v Wade than who remember the illegality of pregancy…
Continue ReadingPandemic verse two: Covid still in charge
Here we are a year and a half removed from our initial universal lockdown and the old saying holds true: the more things change the more they stay the same. Also too, if nothing changes, nothing changes. Even though myself and many of my friends and associates are fully vaccinated, this whole World seems like…
Continue ReadingThe 26th Amendment at 50
Those Americans who were not alive and those who were alive but not yet between their eighteenth and twenty-first birthdays before July 1st, 1971, will never be able to truly appreciate the full justice of what occurred on that date. For those readers who were not yet eighteen years of age on or who were…
Continue ReadingOf seditionists, insurrectionists and sunshine patriots
So, nobody ever thought it could happen here. Who in America or any other place that ever regarded this nation to be the last best hope for human self-governance ever had such a specter enter into their thinking? Outside the conceptual confines of a dystopian novel or movie script, it was just plain unthinkable, wasn’t…
Continue ReadingOur long trip back to reason
It has been over a month since enough votes were counted after the November 3rd General Election to declare a Presidential winner of the Electoral College vote. Despite incessantly repeated cries of “FOUL” by the runner-up and his water carriers, there has been no credible evidence produced to substantiate any of their claims of voter…
Continue ReadingThe priceless benefit of a clear conscience
There are two absolutes which apply to all members of the human species: 1.) the heart of every living one of us will eventually stop beating and 2.) we will be expected to pay our way legally via taxation or illegally however we can until it does. Beyond those two givens there are no guarantees…
Continue ReadingSlogging the last mile
Finally, we wake up and it is October 2020. It is the last full month before the November General Election and here we are. Many of us are getting that giddy feeling like we can see light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Just about all of us felt this way in the…
Continue ReadingEmbracing who and what we are
As summer eases into autumn, we find ourselves six weeks away from what is described by all accounts as “the most important Presidential election of our lifetime!” No doubt the November 3rd General Election looms large ahead of us in the midst of the sinister miasma known as year 2020 CE, but that doesn’t mean…
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