We the people have agreed to be ruled by our system of government, with its checks and balances, and Constitutional limitations. We have not agreed to be ruled by a tyrant who refuses to respect our nation’s legal foundation. Despite all the millions of people who have marched and organized and emailed and called, a fair […]
I am defending my personhood. You are trying to map your vision of personhood onto the rest of us. In the wake of the 2016 election, I and many of my leftist friends have taken to the streets, the airwaves, the media, and the Internet to express our dismay. Many of us are bewildered. Lots […]
We are intelligent, educated, articulate Americans empathetic to one another’s stories, with a sense of history that extends beyond the Yankee Doodle Dandy drums and fife. As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain Dissolved into the bells of the lightning Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake Tolling for the […]
Political polarization in this country is now so acute that party affiliation transcends practically everything else. “We’re done. I’m breaking up with you,” Beth wrote to Dave during the 2008 Presidential election. “When you said last week you were voting for McCain I thought you were kidding. But…when you said that Palin was ‘extremely qualified’ […]
New research says that conservative men stop having sex sooner than liberal men. Lynn Beisner says that’s because most conservative men make sex all about them. Last week we learned the results of a Harvard research study that tracked the lives of men who attended the university between 1939 and 1944. Many of the findings […]
