Epigraph: “Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine;I'm on the pavement, thinking about the government.”[Bob Dylan (1965): Subterranean Homesick Blues."] Prologue: So, what is there really to think about? Well, I’m opining on why this Republican President, still supported by a “look the other way” Republican Congress, has shut down the Government; and once … [Read more...] about A View From My Porch: The President’s Coattails Are Tattered and Threadbare—A Treatise on Misbehavior
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A View From My Porch: A Closer Look at ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ (OBBB), Tariff Impacts
Exercise Your Franchise, Cast Your Vote on Nov. 4th Epigraph: “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter”[President Barack Obama. Remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 46th Annual Phoenix Awards.* 09/18/2016.] * The Phoenix Awards recognize significant contributions in literature and social justice within the Black community, with notable … [Read more...] about A View From My Porch: A Closer Look at ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ (OBBB), Tariff Impacts
A View from My Porch: “Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming,” Part 2 — A Retrospective on the War in Vietnam.
Epigraph: “But little Mouse, you are not alone in proving foresight may be vain. The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew; and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy.” — N.B., translated from the original Scots dialect.(Robert Burns: “To A Mouse on turning her up in her nest with the Plough.” November, 1785) Burns’ “best laid schemes of mice and … [Read more...] about A View from My Porch: “Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming,” Part 2 — A Retrospective on the War in Vietnam.
A View From My Porch: “Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming.” Part 1 — The Shootings at Kent State University.
Christina and I attended a program at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library on Tuesday, April 29: “Oral History: Kent State, 1970,” presented by Mike Alewitz, who as a student anti-Vietnam War organizer at Kent State University and a founder and chairman of the University's Student Mobilization Committee Against the War, witnessed the bloodshed that occurred there on May 4, 1970 — … [Read more...] about A View From My Porch: “Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming.” Part 1 — The Shootings at Kent State University.