Here are seven historical reasons to think twice before voting for a Republican, any Republican, to be president of the United States. One. Over the last 80 years, five of the six presidents with the highest job creation were Democrats. Two. Over the last 50 years, every Republican president has…
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MAGA Republicans Are Nazis Now
The Party of Lincoln is dead. The Party of Reagan is dead. Even the MAGA Republican Party is dead. It’s the Party of Trump now, pure and simple, and it no longer deserves the honor of calling itself Republican. It’s the Nazi Party now. That does not exaggerate. Remember that…
2023: Most Important Year Ever?
Seen from a scientist’s perspective, the last year was one of the most important years since the Big Bang. During that year science made at least three major advancements that will change – are changing, have changed – our lives faster and more drastically than at any time in history. …
Civil War Has Begun
For only the second time in our nation’s history, one of our political parties has decided to ignore the rules of democracy and go its own way. The first time was in the late 1750s when our forebears were writing the Constitution. Delegates disagreed on many issues, sometimes vehemently, but…
Light in the Darkness
Last week, I said we avoided a disaster when House Republicans rejected Jim Jordan’s effort to become House speaker, and we did. But then they chose Mike Johnson, and we’re right back to disaster. How could it not be a disaster? Look at the man. Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been…
Saving Democracy: Our Opportunity Amidst Crisis
The Chinese symbol for crisis is identical to its symbol for opportunity, and we would do well to remember that while we look at what is happening in Congress these days. The crisis is that we came within a hair last week of turning the U.S. House of Representatives over…
The Hitler-Trump Connections
Now that the 2024 presidential election is approaching, it’s time we looked at the myriad links that connect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Begin with the words of Trump’s first wife, Ivana. Her divorce papers said he kept a book translating and annotating Hitler’s pre-World War II speeches in a…
Goodbye Columbus?
Most countries of the Americas and elsewhere, including the United States, are celebrating Columbus Day today, a holiday that celebrates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492. The United States celebrates the occasion by giving federal workers the second Monday in October off. But 10…
Founders Wanted God in State
(Note to readers: The following blog is a column I wrote for The News and Courier and Evening Post on July 16, 1989. It was the first column I wrote after being named the newspapers’ religion editor, and I’m repeating it now because it is more apropos to today than…
Not Voting is Not OK
It’s easy to think that MAGA Republicans represent the worst-ever threat to our American democracy, but they do not. They’re a threat, sure, a big threat, probably the second-most dangerous threat there is. But they pale in comparison with another group, a vastly larger and starkly well-defined group: eligible people…