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What is Extortion? According to Wikipedia, “Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion. In most jurisdictions, it is likely to constitute a criminal offense. Robbery is the simplest and most common form of extortion, although making unfounded threats in order to obtain an unfair business advantage is also a form of extortion.” We have all heard of protection rackets where organized crime would demand money in exchange for not damaging your business. We have also seen that same practice where the police offer extra protection or turn a blind eye to illegal activities for money under the table. Extortion has a long history in America, but I feel that it is being taken to new heights. Trump is demanding $500 million for Harvard as a settlement of a dispute over accusations of civil rights violations related to the treatment of Jewish and Israeli students and the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies...

Today, everything is about Trump and Epstein. It is essentially a fact that they were inseparable for over 15 years. Trump has tried to downplay it, but more evidence is being found every day showing just how close they were. Epstein was jailed for trafficking underage girls for sex with wealthy clients. When I was a child, I had a friend with whom I did everything with, and I knew pretty much everything he was doing. My point is that, given his documented, long-term friendship, Trump had to have been aware of what Epstein was up to. Trump either knew of the problem of those children and did not do anything, or he was a participant. People are acting like this is new News when, in fact, there is nothing new about any of it. People may try to play ignorant, but Epstein’s and Trump's relationship dates back to the 1980s. Could opportunists have made some of the complaints? Sure, I would bet that more than one has, but I would bet that, as the saying goes, “Where there is smo...

I was having dinner with some friends when the conversation turned to something that bothered me. One of my dinner companions, whom I know is a Trump supporter, showed us an email that they received from their daughter, who in turn has a daughter with disabilities. It was a pretty nasty email blaming her mother, the Trump supporter, for all the cuts that Trump's Beautiful Big Bill will cause. The mother, of course, was insulted, and so would I have been if I had gotten an email like that, but the mother's reaction was that you don’t talk politics. I was taken aback by both the email and the mother's reaction. The daughter should never have sent the email, but the mother's reaction that you don’t talk about politics is also wrong. The fact people feel they don’t have to be accountable for the damage a candidate they voted for does seem to be like the voter just burying their head in the sand and not looking at what is happening right in front of them. My take on it is ...

We are a country that has lost its faith. When I was young, we were a nation of great faith, and that faith is what made us great. It was our unwavering faith that helped put a man on the moon. It was our unwavering faith that conquered polio. It was our unwavering faith that men could still dream. It was our unwavering faith in our fellow man that made us feel there was nothing we couldn’t overcome if we worked hard enough together. We have lost our faith in science. When I was a teenager, we put a man on the moon. When I was six, I remember standing in line as we conquered polio. We conquered the Chicken Pox, Measles, and the Mumps. Medical scientific research is now under attack. Today, we turn our backs on the medical research that can save people's lives. Today, we are cutting much-needed research that in the future could save millions of lives. I remember when the only way we could talk to someone on the phone was by using a hard-wired device that was in our homes. Today,...

Never once have I ever read in the Bible where Jesus said, “God bless the Roman Empire”. Never once have I read in the Bible of Jesus standing to pay homage to the symbols of the Roman Empire. Never once have I read Jesus combining his teachings with the Rule of the Roman Empire. I began thinking of that when I was watching the 4 th of July celebration on PBS, and there was a guy waving an American flag, and wearing a red hat that said, “Make America Pray Again”. That struck me as so anti-Jesus because that was what Jesus was not about. That is the last thing that the man that we call Christ would have been doing, in my opinion. Patriotic to a Government, whether it was Roman, Israel, or Jerusalem, was not what he was about. We have patriotic songs like the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and I have asked myself many times, would Jesus have marched off to war leading an Army? He was the man who let himself be tried by the Romans, did not offer any ...

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”. These words are the start of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. July 4 th, 1776, was the date of the final approval of our Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. In the Declaration of Independence, that is the paragraph before they list their grievances, that reads “ Such has been the patient suffrage of these ...

The inmates are running the asylum! That is what it looks like to me. Their entire administration is not based on anything that resembles sanity. They attacked Iran, a sovereign country, saying they were going to end Iran’s nuclear program. Can they end Iran’s nuclear program with one bombing mission? Does Trump think Iran is so terrified of him that they will just roll over? I remember the start of Desert Storm. We bombed Iraq constantly for days before we sent coalition troops into Iraq. It was a well-planned offensive that was effective in achieving the goals. It was also a very secretive offensive, not something that was talked about on social media. Wars are not won on social media. This was not even a war. This was a military attack on strategic military targets meant to deter Iran’s nuclear capabilities. To call this a war is just a joke. The fact that everything has been announced on social media by Trump makes it seem like just a way to manipulate the story. Is this th...

Do people look to understand what is being said, or do we just cling to fancy slogans? For 10 years, Trump has been saying, “Make America Great Again”. Great slogan, but what does it mean? I am going to be totally honest with you, “Make America Great Again” means absolutely nothing. Why would I say that? Because if you were to ask 20 people out there, there would be 20 different answers. What did we do to make America great in the first place? What did we do to make America not great? When Trump started saying it, 10 years ago, Barack Obama was President. Trump, at that time, was like the unofficial head of the birther movement, trying to claim Obama was not a born American. Obama was the first African American President in the history of the United States. I think it kills Trump that Barack Obama was one of the most respected and popular Presidents around the World since Reagan. Funny thing is, since Trump got elected President, he has been trying to eliminate Obama from ...

Forty years ago, there was a mini-series on ABC called The Winds of War. It was the dramatization of events leading up to our involvement in World War II. People tend to forget that World War II had been raging for a couple of years before the United States entered the war. Even though we were supposedly neutral, the mini-series showed how we were definitely on the side of the Allies, assisting them with goods and raw materials as much as we could. We didn’t enter the war until we were attacked by the Japanese on December 7 th, 1941. Today, I fear we are now seeing the “Winds of War” happening again. The Middle East is a powder keg just waiting to blow, and I am afraid that you will see us involved in War again. Israel has attacked Iran while it is still fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. This has led to concerns about a wider regional conflict. Hamas is partially funded by Iran and Qatar. Hezbollah is also partially funded by Iran. There have been tens...