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By Ernest Kearney — Sadly, violence is all too often mistaken by the weakest among us as strength. Then, should they turn

By Ernest Kearney  —  The service held at the Washington National Cathedral this past December 10, for the late Senator Bob Dole, wielded a

By Ernest Kearney — A friend poised a question to me. She had encountered, in a brief stretch of time, three people who launched

By Ernest Kearney — First of all, I don’t expect you to read this letter. Truthfully, I don’t expect you’ll ever be aware it

By Darwyn Carson — Aren’t we tired of this yet…? I s’pect there are plenty out there who are. I can feel the ‘bubble-bubble-toil

by Ernest Kearney — Everyone should read Montaigne;* though he wrote nearly 500 years ago, there is hardly a writer today who speaks with

I’m an Angry White Man, with a twist: I’m angry at other angry white men. You’ve seen and heard them: they add “only” to

By Ernest Kearney — Now reading this, don’t go assuming that I’m just a left-leaning GOP-basher of long standing. Once upon a time, shortly

By Ernest Kearney — I am confident, as confident as one can be in this Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robot world we seem to

A Forward By Ernest Kearney — In times of radical events, it is both courageous and proper to take action to address the failures of

By Ernest Kearney — 1940 saw an expansion of Secretary of State Davenport efforts to educate Anglo-Saxon Americans of the threats to their race.

By Ernest Kearney — H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic had predicted it in 1920: “As democracy is perfected, the office

By Ernest Kearney – The pundits proclaimed the ski lifts in Hell must be working overtime, for Donald Trump had won the Republican nomination

He's gotta go, of course. But Donald The Dictator’s raptorial reign is far from the only damage being done to our democracy.

It’s a safe bet that more people want Trump out of office than want him in. Hell, that was true on Election Day 2016.

Sigh… More than twenty Democrats are running for president, and none of them will stuff Trump’s hairpiece down his throat—the one thing I would

By Steve Schlich — My premise is brutal: business is a cross between a dictatorship and a junta …which makes government run as a

By Steve Schlich — Above: #PlaidShirtGuy mocks Trump at a Montana rally. He (and friends) were eventually shooed off-camera, but the video is internet-immortal.

By Steve Schlich  —  Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious hope that somehow, naming

By Ernest Kearney  —  In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the