For those who haven’t voted yet, before you cast your vote for a vile & self-serving man with an orange complexion, making rude and false comments about his opponent/s, think about it. Are you voting out of anger and fear stoked by Trump, Facebook, and Fox News? Are you…
Each added Trump day in the White House is a stellar disgrace, Soiling our pages of history with tinny words & scaly presence. It’s a mockery of what we are and what we mean as a nation. We’ve had sullied moments like this in an uneven history, But Trump’s…
It’s right under your nose … signs of our demise. And we are all contributors. Never before has allegiance to the common good been more important. I mean globally. Rather than common good, various forms of the “rugged individualist” culture have been pushed in our faces for generations. Is…
The social media can be both a curse and a blessing. It is a blessing because you have the opportunity to read the viewpoints of millions of people. However, it is also a curse because very often, you are also exposed to the ignorant arrogance of people. Especially when…
Walter Beck's poetry is not for the weak spined, new age generation who look for light at the end of every dark tunnel and believes that fairness can be doled out through the power of positive thinking. But they should read it, even if it's force fed down their…
More and more, multi-millionaires and billionaires are hiding behind patriotic-sounding organizations that do their bidding – many paying no taxes – to marshal mercenary companies who in turn outsource to professional snoops and trackers secretly collecting data, and hiring production companies which produce attack ads against political opponents. With…
A Senate bill sponsored by Senator Robert Menendez, NJ, would impose tougher sanctions on Iran, despite dire warnings from the White House, Iranian leaders, ten Democratic committee chairs and a host of liberal groups. It would sink a delicate nuclear agreement already in place, an agreement that prompted Tehran…
Whom will you follow? Whom will you listen to -- the red-cheeked fat man on the left or the kindly-looking ascetic wearing the pope hat on the right? Since his choosing in March of this year, Pope Francis has become somewhat of a spiritual rock star, charming Catholics and…
Congress – as now constituted – will not serve us. We have ample evidence that all GOP allegiance is to the rich, certainly not the people. Furthermore, too many Democrats tend to serve Wall Street, let’s say are not aggressive about our basic need of jobs, a fair share…
We need a new word to describe most Republicans, one to fit a behavior that harms the most vulnerable Americans. Words already in the dictionary don’t exactly fit, so I came up with a new one. It is misGOPpath. And to follow proper form, it becomes misgoppath. I have…