Category: U.S. Politics
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When commitment becomes extreme
Mary Surratt and John Wilkes Booth believed they had a moral obligation to kill the president. Today 39% of Republicans believe violent action is sometimes called for.
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Dare Americans tune out?
We live in a time when we dare not avoid information just because it depresses us, bores us, or taxes our brain. Russian interference in the 2016 election, migrant children and parents separated at the border, the opening of Alaskan wilderness to oil producers, lifetime appointments of conservative federal judges—all of these demand our informed…
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Donald Trump, sarcasm, and me
Donald Trump has my sympathy. I’m being sarcastic. But not that sarcastic, to be honest with you. For sarcasm is my default mode of humor too. Over time, though, I’ve learned that others don’t usually get it. Not because I’m more clever than they, but because the distance between sarcasm and truth is usually only…
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Voting laws and racism, or what you can learn doing genealogical research
New laws to curb black voting are nothing new. In 1900 North Carolina passed an amendment to the state constitution with the explicit intent of suppressing “Negro” voting.
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A busy woman’s guide to being informed
The National Women’s Political Caucus invited me to write a guest blog. http://nwpcblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-busy-womans-guide-to-being-informed.html
Nancy Werking Poling 