Filibuster: The minority can’t override the majority in a democracy
Thu, 09/30/2021 - 12:00am
What would we accomplish in Scott County if 40% of the people could stop anything from happening?
Columns & Opinions
Behaving like medieval peasants
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 12:00am
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people are behaving like medieval peasants: alternately denying the existence of the plague, blaming an assortment of imaginary villains, or running around seeking chimerical miracle cures.
Preaching the gospel of Ignorance
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 12:00am
Raised voices were rattling the church rafters during last weekend’s Freedom Revival in the Heartland at Lenexa.
Raising the debt: Hypocrisy has lost all meaning with Republicans
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 12:00am
After awhile, hypocritical seems woefully inadequate in describing today’s Republican Party. And it’s reached the point where using that term for Republicans - whether in the state legislature or Congress - becomes irrelevant to politicians who aren’t bothered by it because one first has to have ethical and moral standards by which they would find that stinging criticism would force them to pause and reflect.
Private equity destroyed my job
Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:00am
Not long ago, I was a saleswoman and manager at Art Van Furniture, a furniture retailer that was an institution in metro Detroit for over half a century.