On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt ordered the roundup of 120,000 Americans and put them into concentration camps — Most Democrats worship Franklin Delano Roosevelt as though he was one step short of sainthood. I don’t. Like many American heroes, the 32nd president of the United States had a few flaws. Don’t get me wrong, I’m awed by his commitment to social programs that put people before politics. But…

- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 — I am constantly amazed how many people don’t know that the Cold War wasn’t a time when we fought our way out of a really bad blizzard. Somehow we’ve forgotten a time when we all walked around in constant, gut wrenching fear that those pesky commies from the Soviet Union…

It looks like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene skipped too many days of Sunday School — Now, I’m not exactly what you would call a religious fanatic. I don’t attend church; I have done my disproportionate share of sinning. I’m a union member. I’m a liberal. I’m a lefty. And if my evangelical preacher brother is correct, I will probably end up in hell. At least…

And, how flipping Congress in the midterms will change the country — After John Kennedy’s “Camelot” presidency ended abruptly in 1963 with assassination, it was inherited by President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” which brought us more human rights legislation than any other term of office since Lincoln. But with the escalation of the Vietnam War, Johnson went into disgrace and the country…

It will save us all a ton of money — I am a huge fan of frontline workers of all sorts. Nurses, firefighters, police officers, EMTs, doctors and anyone else our government labels an essential worker. But what I don’t get is that means the rest of us are what you would call non-essential, or as Merriam-Webster defines us: “gratuitous…

And, with Donald Trump, Jr. as his vice president, they will destroy the nation — This could be overstating the obvious, but for 2022 I’m predicting that the nation’s most powerful person will position himself to occupy the Oval Office in 2025. My money is on Senator Joe Manchin. He has demonstrated his ability by single handedly stopping the entire Biden administration’s agenda (albeit with…

Now, will Texas justice come after me? — I have a confession to make. And while I’m expecting several well-armed, bearded Texans to appear at my front door to make a citizen’s arrest at any moment, I’m not particularly worried about it. I did the right thing. Several decades ago, I shared my life with a woman for…

And, it will be all over by Christmas! — While at the ATM in the bank the other day, masked and wary, I overheard a conversation between a couple of tellers. Teller # 1: “This mask thing is crazy.” Teller # 2: “Why do we have to be the ones to enforce the rules?” Teller # 1: “It’s proven…

Where is John Kennedy when we need him? — For 50 years, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on Roe v. Wade, constitutionally guaranteeing rights for women to have control over their own bodies, has been the law of the land. Yet, all across America, state legislators are coming up with circuitous ways to undermine…