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No Kings in America . . . If We’re Worthy

“This government was founded on protest.” Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), first African-American Supreme Court justice. In the run-up to our war to become free of English rule, our protests were against a dictatorial king who sought to deprive the American colonists of a say in their governance. Today, as in 1776, there are no kings in America. Trump’s efforts to undercut any opposition mirror…

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Literary License: What a Century!

Today’s poem is a creatively somber reflection on our recent past and perhaps a foreshadowing of dangers we face in the future that likely will come from new directions as technology continues to evolve seemingly independently of any humanistic considerations of their impact on people of the earth. In “The Common Era”, Abigail Dembo weaves a tight web of images summarizing the “last century” and…

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Along the Gange River in Varanassi. April 2025.

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Walesa stood up to Russian occupation when we still were a beacon of freedom and leader of the free world - even with all of our faults. Now, Trump glories with his toadies in being the stooge of another Russian nationalist regime. May the world forgive us, and remember our long reliability before this fraud was inaugurated.

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If the guardrails of our constitutional and democratic system of government continue to fail, what are the consequences? The rule of law is the only thing that stands between any people and tyranny because if the well-heeled can ignore the law (even more than they do today), there is no protection of liberty. We are now facing a blitzkreig by a President determined to punish his enemies and rule as a virtual dictator. Who will stand up?