Responsibility and law and order first, then – perhaps – we can begin to heal

It is both fascinating and infuriating to watch members of the GOP, long self-identified as the party of “law and order,” “personal responsibility,” and more recently the leading actors in the “Blue Lives Matter” playacting exercise, suddenly calling for “healing” and “unity.” If the mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday had actually […]

If not now, when?

Yes, the people responsible for the insurrection on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol must be arrested and prosecuted. I know there are political reasons why sometimes crimes are not pursued by law enforcement and the court system. There can be extenuating circumstances. Those do not, and can not, apply here. This is not someone being […]

Lancing our national boil

What can be said that hasn’t already been said about today’s embarrassing and despicable events at the U.S. Capitol. It would have been embarrassing and despicable even before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an act of insurrection that hasn’t been seen in the United States since the Civil War. The cynicism […]