IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith wants IN’s Constitution to require candidates for public office “profess their belief ‘in Judeo-Christian orthodoxy.’” [FN1] His views are abhorrent. In a 10/24/19 selfie video, he said “the church” provides the morality America was founded on 1/11

and you cannot be moral if you are a “Hindu, an atheist or a Jew.” If you are not a Christian, you lack the capacity to BE moral. In mid-North Indiana, people like Beckwith usually said, “It’s not MY way. It’s…

This evening Atlantic noted in trump’s 2d term, more than 6 million participants have been cut from SNAP (more commonly called “food stamps”). Brooke Rollins, trump’s lackey heading the Dept of Agriculture, bragged that a “‘vicious cycle’ of government dependence” was ended. 1/2

Some call that “vicious cycle” three meals a day. More $$$ now is freed up for monuments to trump’s ego erected by trump for trump or to pay billionaires who need to see returns on their investments paid to…

Bad comedy - sometimes - must be watched. trump’s speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner on 7/24 exemplifies “must be watched.” [FN1] Standup can be scary, w/possible PTSD on top of shelling out bucks for a cover charge. I meant members of the audience ... 1/9

can feel violated, esp if there’s a cover charge. [FN2] The material was pure torture for the audience. And at one hour + the speech was too long. And yet an alternative lay close at hand. This week, the State…

Attacks on Iran, w/o warnings - to U.S. allies or the American people - began 2/28. POTUS is “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States,” [FN1] 1/13

an authority Hamilton said is “nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces” and notes that “the declaring of war and [] raising of fleets and armies” under the Constitution…