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It’s been a while since I have posted on this blog. Two years plus to put a point on it. Quite frankly I have been taking care of my wife while she prepared for the next journey. She passed over to that realm this spring. It has taken a bit to get me to worry about something else. Nothing has seemed as important since she began that journey without me. Even the 2024 Presidential election hasn’t been a top priority and that is saying something from a political junkie such as myself. Still the election has come and passed. The right candidate didn’t win. She was a leader without criminal stain or stink well versed in politics and foreign policy. That is such as it is. While I predict events will happen of which I strongly disagree, the country will get through them. In what condition I do not know ...

My interest in the recent ruling by the Supreme Court on Dobbs v. Mississippi which overrules Roe v. Wade was focused not only as a personal historical event. But as driven by my wife, Rhonda, to whom Roe and Dobbs were major events affecting her life. She wanted answers, knew of my penchant for research, and capitalized on it.
To understand the issues at hand, abortion, and women’s bodily autonomy, one would have to have a better historical understanding of Roe and the legal issues surrounding the case. First and foremost, Roe v. Wade is a legal case brought from Texas. Wade in this instance is Henry Wade the District Attorney for Dallas County. Roe is fully known as Jane Roe, a pseudonym for the actual appellant. Also, Roe wasn’t decided alone. It was decided alongside another similar case. Roe also had additional plaintiffs, both of which had no standing ...

Been keeping an eye on redistricting this year. Last time the nation went through this agonizing re-drawing of legislative districts the nations governments went more conservative even though the country went more liberal. Redistricting was the reason Republicans took back the U. S. House. It was also why they took it back in record numbers. I was concerned that after years of working to reverse this last decade debacle the country was poised to do it all over again. Let’s face it. Republicans have given up on winning any election or argument on the merits of their case. No sensible person wants their drivel. So, to keep power and force their opinions and policies on us, they cheat. Wherever possible, they cheat. Redistricting is the primary way they cheat to takeover the U.S. House. Even after a pretty good election cycle for Democrats in 2020, Republicans were able to keep ...

I was asked what I thought about Mitch McConnell, specifically concerning his speech just after the acquittal decision in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Emotionally I was exhausted, exhausted of him, Trump and the whole stinking Republican Party. But mentally I had an understanding and could relate to the tight rope McConnell walked. As I stated in my book “Inhale Fear, Breathe Anger: Dixiecrats, TEA Partiers, and Changing Political Paradigms”, Republicans were due for a paradigm change in their party. I even mentioned quite frequently that paradigm changes are often violent and messy. In this instance the Republican Party is more that living up to my predictions. Like one supporter told me, “…it is like you predicted, but on steroids…”. The original Republican Party is a byproduct of changing political paradigms. It was formed by farmers and main street businesses from Whigs, Democrat-Republicans, and others as an answer ...

The shock of January 6th has not worn off. I have been waiting for a multitude of emotions to simmer down so I might express my thoughts on that horrific event. But 8 days later finds me still glued to news bulletins and the drama of the orange blob being impeached once more. I decided to take a moment though to put down my recollection of events of the day and my thoughts concerning them. I do so more for a record of my views of what happened than any actual opinion about the event. Who knows in some twenty or thirty years from now I might want to review what happened. Explain the events to my grandbaby or others not yet born. I might even feel a need to leave a personal record for those I leave behind. They might need to know what happened absent professional or governmental ...