Restore Democracy

I have had many proud moments in my life; watching the five kids becoming successful adults, watching grand-kids grow, graduating from UCD, ...

"When in the Course of human events,..." In this posting I will be leading you blindly on a path of thought. I hope you are willi...

What makes me a liberal? I had a discussion about where traditional conservatives and liberals agree and disagree. Out of it came th...

Almost every single year of my life the U.S. has been involved in military action in a foreign country. In most cases the county has natura...

For those who worked to save Troy Davis, we lost that struggle. Though I firmly believe he was innocent, I'm not writing about this ca...

Several times I have written about how non-violent action works. Today I am writing about the failure of violence. This is not a moral dis...

Last week the Democrats and Republicans negotiated a budget. In that budget was a rider that prevented the 24th largest city in the U.S. fro...