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Category Archives: Politics
Last Minute Appeal: Minnesota VOTE!!!
Today is Primary Election Day in Minnesota. Your vote counts. Use it. Today is the most important vote in your life. There may not be another free election after today. The President is doing his best to ensure there won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Being American, Blog, Citizenship, Coup d"etat, Democracy, Politics, United States, Vote
Tagged 2020, minnesota, Primary Election, Right to Vote, Vote, Voter Suppression
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Voting 2020
I am celebrating the arrival of a fat gift from the Democracy Fairy, my Vote By Mail packet for Minnesota’s upcoming Primary on August 11, 2020. We can’t guard our freedoms by sitting on our butts. We all need to become actively engaged now and continue through to the election and then beyond. Continue reading
Posted in Awareness, Being American, Citizenship, Democracy, Justice, OpEd, Politics, United States, Vote
Tagged Convention, Coup d"etat, Danger, Democracy, Duty, Editorial, Founders, Freedom, Hardship, Rebels, Republican, Right to Vote, Traitor, Trump, U.S. Constitution, Vote By Mail, Voter Suppression
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Unidentified Federal Agents Surround Peaceful Protestors
Original Photo Library of CongressKu Klux Klan Rally, 1923The Hammond StudioMeridian and Jackson Mississippi
Posted in Being American, Coup d"etat, Democracy, History, OpEd, Politics, United States
Tagged 1923, Agent Provocateur, Cartoon, Coup d"etat, Editorial, Freedom of Speech, history, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Trump
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Trump’s Agent Provocateurs on Taxpayer Dime
Who are the rogue federal agents in Portland and now headed to Chicago? What is there purpose? Who is in charge? Who is paying for them? The use of unidentifiable agents to enforce, or make up, the law is criminal, … Continue reading
Posted in Being American, Citizenship, Coup d"etat, Democracy, Justice, Politics
Tagged Agent Provocateur, Constitution, Coup d"etat, Elections, Gestapo, Ku Klux Klan, military, Nazi, November, Paramilitary, Rebellion, Trump
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Thank You John Lewis, R.I.P
Friday night, Congressional Representative John Lewis died of cancer. He was 80 years old. An icon of the Civil Rights Movement, he was a man of integrity. He was a man of courage, as he demonstrated many times through his … Continue reading
Posted in Being American, Blog, Democracy, Ethics and Morality, Justice, Politics, United States
Tagged Bigotry, cancer, Civil Rights, Courage, Eulogy, Hero, John Lewis, Racism, Rest In Peace
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Freedom Is Not Free
Recently, we celebrated the 244th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the birth of the United States, our home. That evening, as it was growing dark, I reflected on past July 4th twilight. Those hushed moments of … Continue reading
Posted in Being American, Blog, Citizenship, COVID-19, Democracy, Ethics and Morality, Justice, Politics, Public Health, United States
Tagged CoVID-19, Democracy, Elite, Misinformation, Public Health, public space, Rebels, Republicans, Respect, Responsibility, Traitor, Trump
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