I Could Be Wrong.

  Transparency in Government. Is that important? Do we have a right to know who is running our government? Personally, I think we do. I have always thought that we do. Any action and investigation done by any branch of our Government should be made public to the American people no matter which party is in power at the time. We are supposed to have a government by the people and for the people so we, the people, should have a right to know everything. Do we have a right to know about an official's personal life? If it involves criminal behavior and even criminal business behavior, then yes, we have a right to know. These investigations should not be held in secret.  The House Ethics Committee has been investigating Representative Matthew Gaetz. He has appeared to have broken a number of laws such as sex with a minor which some people may call Statutory Rape. Paying for sex with a minor. Drug use. It has been stated that he even showed pictures of his underage conquest on the Fl...

We are being told that because Trump won the election, all of us should support him. At least that is what one of his lawyers said. Alina Saad Habba stated that everyone supported Obama when he was elected and should support Trump now. Talking like that really makes me sit up and take notice. Better yet, lying, like that makes me sit up and take notice. It is straightforward to check and see how much support Obama got from the Republican Party and from the Republicans on the Hill in general. America has been known for having a very short memory but when you are 71 years old 2009 seems like just yesterday.  I don't think we have had a Republican Party that wanted to work with a Democratic President since Johnson. All of my life, the political divide has deepened in America to the point where we are today. That "Party Before Country" that Newt Gingrich brought to the Republican Party during the 1990s really pushed me over the edge. His contract with America had nothing to d...

The election is over, but the fight needs to go on. We need to start talking about the issues that we will be facing not only in our country but also in the entire world. To conquer those problems we first have to recognize that there is a problem. One of the biggest obstacles is our ability to separate the truth from the lies. You would think that would be an easy thing to do but this is what makes it so hard to solve today's problems. In today's world of alternate facts, the truth becomes very elusive. This is what I'm going to be concentrating on in the future and I hope there are people out there willing to help me.  We have many issues that need to be tackled. There is Climate Change. There are shootings in our schools that take the lives of too many of our children. There is the drug violence on our streets. There is a growing homeless problem. There is the healthcare problem. I know there are many problems and, I'm going to continue to write about them.  Living i...

Veteran's Day is a day I never really started to appreciate until I visited two National Cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetary and The Little Bighorn National Cemetary. The peacefulness of those two cemeteries left me with a feeling of the peace that was fought for with the lives that were laid to rest there. Another place that moved me was the National Mall, where the Vietnam Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Korean Memorial left me with a great appreciation of the sacrifices made by those few for what is supposed to be a grateful nation. Have I honored them properly? Probably not. Has the nation honored them properly. No! Veteran's Day is more of a way to make a political statement than to honor our Veterans.  I was watching TV the other day and a commercial for the Wounded Warrior Project came on. Like many charities, it has been marred with scandals of misuse of funds by the people who run the charity, and not enough of the money was actually going to the peopl...

  The nation has spoken. That is how it is supposed to happen: We go to the polls and vote for who to guide the country's direction for the next four years. Some of us are happy with the results and some of us are sad with the results. This election, more than any other, has polarized the nation. We are a divided nation, and this election has made it so we will remain divided. I don't know if I will live long enough to see a united nation. Maybe I am just ignorant and we have been this divided all along because what I am witnessing now shows how little we have come since the 1950s.  I remember the racism from the '60s and the struggles we, as a nation, tried to overcome that hatred which is racism and bigotry. Many things have changed since then but many things have remained the same. The one thing that has remained the same is that we still have a race that believes it is superior to all of the others. When much of America talks about American Exceptionalism what many beli...