Cookie Cutter Justice Isn’t Justice
Conservative leaning friends are going to tell me I’ve gone off the deep end. My more liberal minded friends are going to tell me I just don’t get it. But let me make it clear – one thing I am not is...
View ArticleWhy the Colorado Theater Shooter Trial Is So Important
So here comes another headline grabbing criminal trial. James Holmes, now 27, stands accused of murdering 12 and wounding 70 others in a mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater in July 2012....
View ArticleStop the Running, Stop the Shooting
After watching the situation in Baltimore these past couple of weeks – yet another American city strangled by violence stemming from the death of yet another unarmed black man — it suddenly dawned on...
View ArticleWho Does Hillary Clinton Think She Is?
So wait just a darned minute. A committee of the United States Congress wants to schedule testimony from Hillary Clinton and she refuses the request, laying down certain conditions? That’s not the way...
View ArticleReactions to Police Killings Reveal Twisted Values
The right to freedom of speech in America gives every citizen almost absolute permission to say whatever they think about a given topic. Even if the comments are offensive to the majority citizens have...
View ArticleWe Can All Learn from Young Man Who Simply Did What’s Right
Some of us need laws to keep our behavior in check. Others just know the right thing to do. I do an awful lot of writing about the laws of this land and people who break them. This time I want to write...
View ArticleWho Are We As A Nation and What Do We Believe?
We live in a world of confounding contradictions. We call ourselves a peace loving people yet we continue to engage in far flung wars. Domestically, gangs, guns and drug dealing proliferate. This is...
View ArticleCyber Stalking Just Got Harder to Punish
What if you got a message on your Facebook account from someone you knew was angry with you that read, “There’s one way to love ya but a thousand ways to kill ya.” You might be a bit worried, right?...
View ArticleWithholding a Name Won’t Stop the Next Mass Shooting
For those of us who have never lost a child to a violent crime we cannot possibly know a grieving parent’s pain. But we know that out of pain can come a convoluted way of thinking. It isn’t easy to...
View ArticleDolezal is Delusional at Best, Dishonest at Worst
~ Is it criminal to change one’s race? There was hesitation in writing this column. I mean, by now, you’ve likely read enough about the bizarre saga of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who passed...
View ArticleDeny, Deny Until They Die: Agent Orange and the VA’s Response
So, the U.S. government has finally decided to help some 2,000 Air Force personnel exposed to Agent Orange residue left over in airplanes used during the Vietnam War. They are now eligible for...
View ArticleTime for VA to Wake Up, Pay Up for All Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange
Isn’t it ironic? In the 70’s Vietnam veterans returned from an unpopular war to society’s scorn and cries of, “Baby killer!” Over the decades, we began to understand they had been brave and selfless...
View ArticleThe Presidential Clemency Push – Are We Ready?
Seems like Washington is enjoying a rare political Kumbayah moment these days. Both Democrats and Republicans now agree that our justice system ran off the rails with overly burdensome, mandatory...
View ArticleTrump: The Bully Makes a Point
It has been intriguing to note that in this era of citizen division and Us-versus-Them mentality – during this time in our history when every perceived foe must be labeled – no one has called out...
View ArticleBig Brother Isn’t Watching – It’s Big Boss
Is your boss spying on you? There’s a good chance. These days employers are monitoring their workers in all sorts of ways you might never have thought about. Your employer can look back at anything...
View ArticleThe Outrage Gods Have Grip on U.S.
The world has gone all topsy-turvy. Citizens can no longer speak their mind and have a conversation about differing points of view. Facts don’t seem to matter much anymore. And, there seems to be this...
View ArticleCitizen Angels For Families of the Missing
Sometimes out of tragedy comes triumph. Such is the case for Julie Pendley of Fayetteville, Arkansas. In May, her cousin Ben Baber and his best friend Cody Parrick went missing. The two 20-year-olds...
View ArticleA Silent Sisterhood Hurts the Cause
~ Where’s the feminist outrage at Trump’s sexist attacks on Fox anchor? Say, ladies, can we talk? What is it with women’s groups in America today? They link arms and proclaim they stand for the...
View ArticleKudos for the Courtroom Artist and Her Tom Brady Portrait
A word about courtroom artists, please. In the wake of “Deflategate” or “Sketchgate” or whatever they’re calling the controversy surrounding New England quarterback Tom Brady these days, I think it’s...
View ArticleDuped ‘Dads’ Aren’t the Only Ones Hurt by Paternity Fraud
Countless children go through life not knowing the true identity of their father. Shame on their mothers. And shame on the U.S. court system that, more often than you realize, forces child support on...
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