Mike Johnson, newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, is already experiencing a progressive assault. He was relatively unknown to them prior to his election, but several facts were sufficient to damn him in their sight. First, he is known to be associated with those more conservative (radical right-wing) members of the Republican Party […]
During a recent roundtable a participant seemed to suggest that it was somehow wrong that far more than half of our American senators represent considerably less than half of the American electorate. A senator from Wyoming represents approximately 600 thousand people, whereas a senator from California represents almost 40 million. Twenty senators represent more constituents […]
In 1875 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned the words, “Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.” An earlier version of this thought appeared in Sophocles play Antigone. As the classical Greek dramatist phrased it, “Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom God leads to destruction.” Either phrase could aptly be applied […]
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