The Clintons Aid Puerto Rico
The island, in dire need of recovery after Category 4 Hurricane María, welcomes the help it can get. And the Clintons are very good at what they do.
Monthly Archives: January 2019
The Slut-Shaming of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I had to look it up. What is slut-shaming and does it apply to attitudes or remarks regarding the youngest member of Congress, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? The resounding answer is, Yes. Slut-shaming refers to criticizing a woman for allegedly violating gender expectations, for behaving in ways that someone, often males, thinks […]
Federal Bargaining Chips
The shutdown standoff has made bargaining chips of all of us. Everybody pays the price when the government– federal, state, local – is not functioning at its utmost, denying services to the very people who fund it: us. It is callousness and carelessness. Donald Trump said federal workers eventually would […]
Congress to Create Commission to Investigate Response to Hurricane María
Senate Democrats plan to introduce a bill to establish a commission to investigate the federal response to Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The legislation is pushed by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-NY, who last year tried to jumpstart such a commission along with Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss. In the Senate, […]
The Three Magi in Central Florida
The Three Kings were astrologers who traveled from Persia, knocked on the door of a Jew whose parents let them in. The Magi dropped to their knees in adoration of a child not their own – not from their world, not their ethnicity, not their race and certainly not their […]
