Joe Biden will be a benchmark and history. His presidency will indicate where democracy began again after its greatest assassination attempt. It is a mark in democracy’s brief history comparable to Harry Truman and FDR’s inclusion of civil rights in American politics. From 1932 to 1968, democracy saw its first…

Marina is not around much. She floats around Tel Aviv. I see her on the beach playing Matko with some hairy Mediterranean types. The bar sells cheese toastys. The British snacks are melted Swiss and tomato between the toasties. I see her there in the evening when the beer is…

Ted Cruz is an incorrigible dork, an infallible nerd. He is prone, as many GOP lackeys are, to make assumptions and predictions about Democrats that never pan out. They look foolish, but life goes on in their world of delusion. Apparently the Texas senator was convinced that the Democrats’ rational…

America. The inherent value in a name should remain undisputed, like a title, a reputation for fair play, for an equitable outcome of political games, the contests which are said to provide each man with one vote. In truth, a union, republic or even constitutional democracy, can only hope to…

There is some kind of self-righteousness in the single issue voter, the people who would dismiss all of a candidate’s flaws because he had a loose moral conviction to one issue. I think it is obvious about what and to whom I am referring. It could be anyone however. The…

The underbrush is usually the most foreboding part of any wooded (or hooded) area, the most telling, metric of a forest. There’s a denseness of trees that hide it from plain sight. It festers, unexamined, unrequited, unanswered until it is too late. It seeks vindication any way it can, even…

Evidently not everyone wants the head of their government to care for them, to care about their lives, or make decisions that are in anyone’s best interest but his own. A disturbingly formidable section of America does not care that they are getting bupkis from a government to which they…

(conviction speaks through paper assholes) On July 15, 1979, President Cater delivered a “crisis of conscience” speech. He appealed to America, urging them to examine closely the soul and spirit that binds us together as a nation. However, Carter spoke of a crisis of confidence. He presented this idea, offering…

There are things more important than a way of government. Life itself, in all of its multitudes, must supersede the construct of its people. There are those ceded caveats that are existential to a body of people for whom that government was designed. They aimed low, from the beginnings, as…