I am thinking about the ongoing brouhaha about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. The real argument is about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy and his positions, inferred but never stated, on hot button social issues such as abortion. Having failed to thwart Kavanaugh’s confirmation on the basis […]
Christine Ford has accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to serve as Supreme Court Justice, of a sexual assault against her at an unidentified home in Montgomery County, Maryland, sometime in the summer of 1982. Brett was 17 at that time Christine was 15. Kavanaugh insists on his innocence, Ford proclaims his guilt. Friends of […]
We have been engaged in military operations in Afghanistan for seventeen years. Sometimes it appears that the war will go on forever. If our leaders had been keen students of history, perhaps this could have been avoided. The Romans conquered most of Great Britain in the 1st century, A.D. Caledonia was that part of northern […]
Tomorrow a devastating hurricane is expected to strike the southeastern coast of North Carolina. It brings to mind my own experiences in that area some 64 and 74 years ago. My family had moved to Carolina Beach in May or June of 1938. Over the next six years we had a few severe nor’easters, but […]
Most of you probably remember your first love. Mine is certainly burned into my mind as a series of bittersweet memories. I will never forget those long ago feelings of intense romantic attachment followed by the pain of rejection. I am considered an old man now. The days slip by ever so quickly as I […]
I have lived for 89 years and have been politically aware since the late 1930s, but I have never seen anything like the present level of animosity between our major political parties. Virulent charges flow back and forth every day, and with all the din and smoke of partisan gunfire it is very difficult to […]
The Democratic Party totally dominated elections in the American South from 1890 until after mid-20th Century. The reason for that was the bitter residue left by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Republicans had great difficulty electing anyone to a major political office in the South. White Southern Republicans were few in number, and the black […]
SEX!!! Does that provocative word catch your attention? It always does. Despite any pretended indifference or aversion, all of us are interested. I had a friend who was a Sanskrit scholar. Someone suggested he write a serious book on the subject. In order to promote sales, the friend suggested a catchy title, SEX in Sanskrit! […]
There has been great controversy about so many National Football League players taking a knee rather than standing during the pre-game playing of our national anthem. The protests began in August 2016 with the decision of Colin Kaepernick to use this method to bring attention to police brutality and the systemic inequality faced by people […]
After reading my August 13 post on free trade, my friend Tom Potter wrote his own thoughts on the subject. He put particular emphasis on the trade deficit. Based on my own observations, almost no government leader other than President Trump has expressed any real concern about our huge trade deficits with China and other […]
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