Over 70 years ago, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith bravely chastised Sen. Joseph McCarthy for his rabid anti-Communist crusade that destroyed countless innocent lives, with no evidence beyond accusations and innuendo. We remember and honor her courage and spine of steel, for which she paid dearly in the Senate. Now, as President Donald Trump and Elon […]

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has challenged, diminished or destroyed many foundations of our democracy. The list is long, and each day produces more damage. He has denied emergency support to the world’s most vulnerable. The unqualified and incompetent hold leadership positions in some of the government’s most critical departments. Individuals are […]

What do Donald Trump, Cher and John Mishler have in common? Answer: we will all be 79 in 2025. A problem? Well, some 11 months ago, there was a “…national obsession with respect to the age of both our presidential candidates (Joe Biden and Donald Trump),” (“Use your moral compass to vote,” June 29, 2024 […]

Recently President Donald Trump, in his Easter greeting to the nation, could not resist turning it into yet another of his political jabs at President Biden. After his general statement, at the end of his message, Trump again displayed his insecurity and lack of focus by claiming again that Biden was “by far, the worst […]

Mount Vernon and Vienna, population 2,334, share a library whose staff is the epitome of grace and good manners. The library offers all kinds of services including inter-library loan, which I use a lot, so I asked for an unusual book published in 1995 and was informed delivery was not guaranteed anymore. Why? Because libraries […]

For most of my seven decades the cry has been to cut taxes for the rich, make deductions, exemptions, loopholes and outright handouts to the rich. The rich will take the money and trickle it on down to everyone with higher wages and benefits. This trickle down economics is a scam; it has never worked […]

I strongly support Rep. Laurel Libby’s right to voice her opinion on the rights of biological and nonbinary women without censure. What she should apologize for is for posting a teen’s identity and photo in any media. Every adult should know how dangerous that is to the teen in an environment where doxxing can threaten […]

President Donald Trump has introduced his beautiful tariffs to destroy the economy to save it. This is a fever dream of a fabulist. There is no plan for his marvelous revolution. Every revelation is a big surprise, like a game show. Corporations and businesses were given no heads up as to what was going to […]

The canceled $35 million grant to Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and Environmental would have been wasted anyway since we’ve known for decades that the primary cause of climate change and environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity and the rise in degenerative, zoonotic and environmental disease is raising animals as products. On a planet […]