Category: political
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“Nothing to fear but fear itself”
Instead of living in fear and buying guns, let’s ground ourselves in joy and trust. Joy for living, trust in a higher power and in each other.
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Of Loyalty Oaths and Gun Rights
To get a teaching job in the 1970s I had to sign a Loyalty Oath. Oaths usually included something like this: “I do not believe in the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence…. I am not a member of any organization or party which believes and/or teaches directly or…
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If Jesus Had a Gun
We’ve been talking about guns while we celebrate the Prince of Peace. What if Jesus had been armed?
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Dear Mitt, please, not a repeat of the 1950s
Mitt Romney, as much as you’d like to return the country to the 1950s, the times were oppressive for African Americans, women, and gays and lesbians.
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Voucher plans vs. Medicare: one more decision
The Republican platform and the Romney/Ryan ticket want to substitute Medicare with a voucher plan so that seniors can be empowered. Thanks,folks, but good health care and enough money to live on make us feel empowered. Having to make one more complicated decision does not.
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God and Campaign 2012
10-0: the number of times Republicans mentioned God in their platform versus Democrats’ references to the Deity—until Fox News noticed the discrepancy. Which means Republicans are faithful to God, while the Democrats are guided by—Satan, I guess.
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Politics and Clotheslines
Are liberals more likely than conservatives to dry their clothes on a clothesline?
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Henrik Ibsen, fracking, and jobs
In Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” we see the folly of a community making a decision based on economic considerations. Today in making moral decisions, such as those related to fracking, we must look at more than the jobs created.
Nancy Werking Poling 