Biden must call on federal workers to ignore illegal orders and faithfully serve the Constitution. Published on Monday, October 12, 2020 Common Dreams     Link to article For complex historical reasons, Federal employees don’t get much love. Republicans already had begun their war on expertise nearly 90 years ago, when they condemned the New Deal…

We all should know when to pass the baton to a younger generation. Published on Friday, September 25, 2020 by Common Dreams  – Link to article “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have said. Despite the mordant wisdom most of us see in that statement, an alarming number…

The Woodward tapes provide the evidence: the president committed political genocide. Published on Thursday, September 10, 2020 by Common Dreams (link)   A consistent rule of the Trump presidency is that no matter the subject, the retrospective evidence will demonstrate that Donald Trump’s actions, and those of his appointees, were more twisted and criminal than…

Who cares if they’re Nazis in the Waffen-SS? Published on Friday, September 17, 2020 by Common Dreams – Link to article Since the campus anti-Vietnam war disturbances of the 1960s and 70s, Republicans have pretty much owned the whole patriotic magilla, including support of our troops. In the last four years, that reputation has come…

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas delivers a coded message about slavery. Published on Saturday, August 8,2020 by Common Dreams (link to article ) Remember the good old days? That’s when neo-Confederates (who of course never called themselves that; they were just defending their “heritage”) passionately argued that the American Civil War was emphatically not about…

GOP policies aren’t “mistaken.” They’re a conscious waste of lives for deceitful purposes. Published on Saturday, May 09,2020 by Common Dreams link to article   The New York Times’ columnist Paul Krugman is one of the few fixtures of the major prestige media honest enough to forthrightly explain why there should be no “controversy” (a…

Protests against COVID-19 restrictions, like the Tea Party protests, are corporate fronts. Published on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 by Common Dreams link to article   The Republican Party and its right-wing allies are incapable of governing. They have no policy principles other than a knee-jerk rejection of the policies of the opposing party; indeed, of…