Wed, 1 February 2017
They come to us with the primal hope for survival. If we turn away because of their religion , we give up our hope of becoming the nation we once promised ourselves. |
Wed, 25 January 2017
As with his intelligence, and his popularity, he has a reflexive, exaggerated need to defend his growling toughness.
Direct download: Donald_Trumps_Delicate_Personal_Quest.mp3
Category:Political Criticism -- posted at: 6:45pm EDT |
Wed, 18 January 2017
Those criticisms hurled at our new President are not only unfair. They are wounding in ways we, and the critics, can only begin to imagine.
Direct download: Vicious_Dislike_of_Donald_Trump.mp3
Category:Political Criticism -- posted at: 10:22pm EDT |
Wed, 11 January 2017
Left wingers argue that new laws should have taken away the shooter's gun. Conservatives know what and who to blame.
Direct download: The_Real_Lesson_From_the_Airport_Shooting.mp3
Category:Policy, Guns, NRA -- posted at: 9:35pm EDT |
Wed, 4 January 2017
Leaders of countries once at war now spoke of peace. The message of hatred replaced by partnership, of conflict yielding to compassion, seemed innocent, uncontroversial. Then guilty minds became angry at imagined insult. |
Wed, 28 December 2016
October 25, 1983 was the night US wrestling fans and movie goers, Irish escaped prisoners, and a Russian officer had something in common. They were all about to die. |
Wed, 21 December 2016
If, as Paul Simon promises, the words of a prophet are written on a subway wall, I may yet learn something spiritual from two fictional killers. |
Wed, 14 December 2016
Conservatives attack US intelligence for revealing uncomfortable facts. Our new President has a new reason. |
Wed, 7 December 2016
The debate is not whether the logic and planning behind Donald Trump's contact with Taiwan was sound or foolish. The debate is whether the conversation was planned at all, or if it simply came from some wild, unconsidered impulse. The answer may provide a harbinger of things to come. |
Wed, 30 November 2016
The first harm from the new President will not come through law or policy. It will be felt on American streets.
Direct download: The_Mean_Streets_of_a_More_Hostile_America.mp3
Category:Politics and Bigotry -- posted at: 10:12pm EDT |