“There are a lot of reasons why an individual might have a status of "convicted felon" -- some reasons, such as plea-bargaining, that need study and correction. That's a separate matter from the right to vote, yet there are political forces that work to impede the right to vote, and take whatever me…”
“The Census is supposed to count persons, not merely citizens. It will not be an accurate count if the citizenship question is included because non-citizens, in this climate of fear of deportation, will avoid responding altogether, and that is what is wanted by those pushing the inclusion of the cit…”
“The full, unredacted Mueller Report, with substantiating information, should go to Congressional committees, and there receive necessary security-related redactions and timely release to the public. For its release to be held up by any individual -- particularly one who can be seen as owing somethi…”
“From what I've read, the incarceration of pregnant refugee women and girls is meant to deny them the chance to exercise the right guaranteed them by Roe vs Wade, that is, to keep them incarcerated until the pregnancy has advanced beyond the point where they could choose to end it. Some, perhaps most…”
“Are Border Bonds one more way of getting Mexico to pay for a wall nobody really wants, that wouldn't do the job, and that a government closure and a national emergency declaration haven't worked to fund? If you can figure out what I just said, you can figure out how whether Mexico will fund the wal…”
“Why is it we continually have to justify the continued existence of wildlife and its habitat? Why is it that we are told continually to mind our own business, as if other life is not our business? Why do we have to defend just leaving wild spaces alone? Why is exploiting wild places somehow a gre…”
“Confederate monuments are a shard of history, but rather than telling the whole story, they seem to encourage some people to continue in the mind-set of that time of history, as though time had stopped then. And stopped there, at the foot of that monument. As long as the monuments remain, and rema…”
“This is too complex a matter for a simple up or down vote. Too many other things enter into it, such as the Administration's current unwillingness to budget for human needs at home or abroad, or to plan ahead multilaterally, in conjunction with allies, rather than a simply go-it-alone padding of th…”
“An uninformed voting public can be used to lead democracy off into any other form of might-makes-right form of government. An uninformed voting public is a potential tool for the powerful. The Mueller report should be made available to the public. If it was important enough for him to write it, I…”
“The purpose of the citizenship question (a new addition to the Census Form) is to achieve an inaccurate total Census count, an under-count, of Democratic-leaning residents. The question is meant to instill fear of self-identification among non-citizens as well as citizens with undocumented family …”
“The current state of the Federal Government seems to be that the President is struggling with the Congress to usurp Congressional powers in a dictatorial manner; therefore it is crucial that citizens uphold the powers they exert through the Congress, and that they use what authority they can to limi…”