Two years after voters tossed Democrats from power in Washington, polls show they are ready to switch sides again. Does it make sense to welcome back a party and its ideas that were so recently rejected? The reason so many voters are frustrated by both parties is that they have been putting ...
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...
It’s fall. I love the fall; I live here because I love living through all the seasons. My family has just lived through a tragedy that hurt all of us. This tragedy proved how valuable the love of family and friends are. I would not be standing up if not for being held up by loved ones. My ...
When my husband and I began cleaning out our closets and storage areas, I understood that simplifying our space would be more challenging than it appeared. I learned this a couple of years ago, when the task of emptying my parents' home loomed over me. My parents weren't hoarders by any ...
Something told me to get me over to East Potomac Park before Donald Trump destroyed it. Sure enough, I did, on a rainy Sunday morning, for a rally to protect the waterfront parkland from his axe. On the next weekend, he cut down 430 trees -- for a fancy golf course, of course. He sneakily ...
America has been disgraced by the Oval Office's current occupant in ways so numerous as to bring sands on the seashore to mind, but warranting special recognition is his relentless effort to sell Ukraine down the river. Since it invaded Crimea in 2014 and then with its full-scale invasion of ...
