The straits in which the Democratic Party is drowning can be traced to the monumental decisions of Truman and Johnson both of whom initiated civil rights for blacks — long ago abandoned by the Republican Party. It hit home in D.C. when Hubert Humphrey was elected to the senate in ‘48 and promptly sat down in the Senate dining room with his black legislative aide. Not only did he alienate southern senators but northern colleagues as well for his brashness. By the time Humphrey became the major...

The Republican Party is sadistic to hold its convention in New York, whose residents only love New York, not Bush — in spite of Giuliani’s unseemly crush on the cowboy. Casket is now spelled Costco since the company is now selling coffins at discount prices — look for them soon at your friendly Wal-Mart. Will WMD sniffers still be at it in the year 3004 or for as long as the Bible archaeologists who are still searching for Eden along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers? Had  Bu...

“It was just a scratch,” he recalled afterwards, “I think one of our grenades hit a tree and bounced back.” [Bob Dole in recalling his first wound, for which he was not hospitalized and first Purple Heart.] Yet he belittles Kerry’s first for which he was not hospitalized. Though I never could cotton to his cracker barrel conservatism and ugly digs shrouded under wry humor, I nevertheless, admired Dole for his role as a hard working senator and his service in WW II requiring a g...

Percentages can drive you crazy. The percentage of Saudis responsible for 9/11 would require carrying the decimal of zeros practically to infinity based on its 21 million population; yet that does not minimize the horrendous impact. That the US is divided down the middle at 45% for each candidate dramatized the tremendous impact that the 10% will have on the election. That Saddam’s tiny minority of henchmen controlling Iraq by no means lessened its world influence which unleashed panic in the...

Even though records show otherwise, Kerry’s master plan was to make himself a hero for future political aims. Homeland Security is to secure Bush’s re-election as it proved successful in the 2002 congressional election. Apparently the hundred or so deaths of US contractors don’t count — after all, they were paid handsomely. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have apparently dropped anchor on their heads. Praise for Tom Cruise’s neutrality — or indecision — concerning the presid...

Homeland Security Department issued a terrorist advisory for local law enforcement agencies to watch for home landers who have “expressed dislike of attitudes and decisions of the US government.” At a Labor Day 2002 Pittsburgh picnic for Bush’s photo-op with work-people, a 65 year old retired steel worker was denied access for wearing a sign “The Bush Family surely love the poor, they make many of us,” though he was engulfed by other sign carriers in favor of Bush. The police arrested hi...

That the current presidential campaign is currently battling veterans against veterans is destructive, serving no purpose other than championing so-called “integrity.” If Kerry exaggerated his exploits — as most veterans do — opponents are trying to box him as a Gore whom they also accused of exaggeration, particularly as a veteran who nevertheless, made it clear that his Vietnam tour was non-combative as an army reporter. Moreover, the integrity, too, of the Navy Department is at stake by im...

Washington Post-ABC Poll shows that Kerry leads, however slim, in issues that matter to the people. Kerry leads 50% to Bush’s 44% if the election were now with 4% undecided and 2% for Nader. They trust Kerry 52% to 44% as commander in chief and only 2% undecided. In handling the economy Kerry leads by eleven points but with seven points undecided. In understanding the problems of ordinary people Kerry leads 51% to 37% but with 12% undecided. As a strong leader, however, he loses by six po...

Anything is possible! — when Ted Kennedy is presumed a possible terrorist at the airport gate and of all places in Boston no less. When is a Catholic not a Catholic? When a little girl, Haley Waldman, threatened by a disease that mandates a gluten-free diet, is denied a substitute rice wafer at First Communion! Prisoner of tradition, the Church insists that the recognized communion wafer must contain unleavened wheat. Even for alcoholics trying to break the habit must take the wine with alco...

It has been my experience that the award of the Purple Heart is as a rule honorable. I know that my marine outfit used to joke around that the best way to take a break from the front-line was to shoot yourself in the foot or cut your finger opening a C-ration and to boot maybe get a Purple Heart for the folks at home to brag about. Yet no one in our platoon ever seriously considered it, much less did it — Pride of the Marines, you know. To suggest that Kerry was awarded three Purple Hea...

It has been my experience that the award of the Purple Heart is as a rule honorable. I know that my marine outfit used to joke around that the best way to take a break from the front-line was to shoot yourself in the foot or cut your finger opening a C-ration and to boot maybe get a Purple Heart for the folks at home to brag about. Yet no one in our platoon ever seriously considered it, much less did it — Pride of the Marines, you know. To suggest that Kerry was awarded three Purple H...

When will the Republican Party cross over to the millennium on economic issues? The Party is extremely defensive by connoting labor rights with entitlements. This is in the face of no apology whatever in the hierarchy of the corporate world bestowing outrageous and unearned executive salaries, gauche perks and top of the line health plans. The word “unearned” is seldom used in the hierarchy — other than the internal revenue nomenclature — because of the symbiotic rise to power deemed as a wel...

Conservatives should try to love more, and Liberals should love less. Democrats pander all but the affluent while Republicans pander to the affluent only. Lyric is melodious and sensitive to romance; rap is to desensitize by savage rhythm. One who does not live by bread alone has an appetite for junk food. A married man who delivers himself to the Lord abandons his wife. Politics without gluttony for money is politics running on empty. God must exist because no one can ...

Why is it whenever one — Kucinich in particular — mentions single payer universal health care the red flag goes up? Isn’t Medicare single payer health care? I don’t hear seniors objecting to it. In the good old days when Blue Cross-Blue Shield was predominant and the cost of health care was still reasonable, millions of workers were either generously covered by large companies, or through small businesses offered a group plan at a cost that would not take bread off the table. But that was in t...

According to Dewey educational theory is scarred by Either-Or opposition that is a development from within and formation from without and that education is a process of overcoming natural inclinations and substituting in its place habits required under external pressures. The latter view is what students object to most. It is degrading to their “material endowments.” What many teachers do not seem to realize is that students do have endowment and that it is the function of the teacher to ste...