Conflict and Polarization – Part 2, The Rule of People

Our nation was born out of a Monarchy, in which the rule of the King encompassed all authority. The Declaration of Independence started the revolution and our Constitution defined our Union. The defining concept was that we would invert the power system from the rule the elite to the rule of the people. The concept […]Read More

Conflict and Polarization

With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, there comes a widening of the gap between Right and Left. To be fair, Kavanaugh did not cause it, he is simply to token point around which the gather storm has gathered. What was once an America united around the Constitution and our founding principles, […]Read More

MOB Rule or the Rule of Law?

I have been quiet on the Kavanaugh/Ford Issue, since there are so many finer minds than mine chiming in… Yet, there are element missing in the banter that seems essential for understanding, or so it seems to me. 1st of all, the procedure of selecting a Supreme Court Justice should be legal and procedural – […]Read More

Nevada Question 3 – Energy

The Buggy Whip Reaction Nevada’s Question 3 empowers the Legislature to minimize regulations on the Energy Market and eliminate legal energy monopolies (2018) The airways are filled with “Vote NO” ads, largely sponsored and funded by public utilities and their supportive industries. “Vote NO because California fell into the ocean when they tried this” “Vote […]Read More

The Either/Or Alternatives

The Either/Or Alternatives They just do not exist in real life – really! In a discussion of the political framework of our Right/Left Nation, moral failure is the issue. Can one be a Christian for Trump? He is, after all, flawed, in case you did not know. “Now even the Christian culture is O.K. with […]Read More

Should Cell Phones be Banned

by Donna Krecklow On February 14, 2018, 17 teens and adults were mercilessly gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  Fourteen others were wounded.  This is a senseless and wanton waste of life and is condemned in the strongest possible terms.  This issue needs to be addressed and it needs to […]Read More

Gun Control – Debating the Undebatable

Premise: No one wants our children to be slaughtered on the campus of their school. No one, with the exception of those mentally deranged people who do the killing. Problem: Our constitution recognizes the God given right for our citizens to bear arms. To alter this premise is an intrusion into the basic concept of […]Read More

USA – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!

USA – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow! I am very concerned with the divide we are experiencing in our nation. It is not the usual differences of opinion we experienced in the past. All people have differences with others, simply because we are all different. Historically, we have political parties and differences based on philosophical differences […]Read More

Perspective: The DACA Debate

 Editors Note: The following is a well written presentation of a DACA argument seldom heard in the shouting and emotional uproar of our day. I thought it worth sharing for your consideration. By Ron Mariani Interesting the twists and turns of the DACA debate on MLKJ Day, 2018. I have so many FB friends with […]Read More

What Will Help Those in Poverty?

There is much ado about everything these days as President Trump dropped his latest verbal bomb, through lips that, as yet, have neither lock nor key. Last time I talked to him about this, ah, wait… I have not talked to him, and have not had the opportunity to tell him anything, not that he […]Read More