I once flippantly remarked that proponents of the death penalty should advocate for more wide-spread use of capital punishment. I specifically referenced white collar criminals such as the Enron gangsters and influence-peddling politicians. After all,… more »

This week, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi laid out the road map that may lead to a Donald Trump Presidency. His basic argument is that “we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the… more »

Now that Ted Cruz has won the Iowa caucuses, the “I-told-you-so’s” about the questionable nature of Donald Trump’s campaign are flooding the media. And, we are told, Marco Rubio’s close third-place finish represents the resurrection of the GOP… more »

“Give me your tired, your poor,  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:  I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Do you wake each morning and wonder if… more »

I recently finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lincoln opus, “A Team of Rivals”.  Goodwin possesses the ability to mold the dry results of historical research into a flowing narrative- she is a good story teller.  Effusive in her praise of Lincoln’s… more »

Today’s news that for-profit colleges accused of fraud are still receiving Federal funds points to the great ironies that exist in the nation’s politics viz a viz the disbursement  of government funds. The billions these “educational institutions”… more »