Reply to ‘Another View’ Several days ago, Jan Dolcater wrote a column for Another View asking people to respond to several questions about Democratic Socialism. I’ll start out by saying that the term democratic socialism apparently has several definitions and emphases. The column does not ask about what type of economic system would fit into […]

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author (1918-2008)

What’s the mainstream liberal media’s most overblown Trump crisis of the week? First, it was the president’s tweet calling former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog” for betraying him and his administration with her new book, “Unhinged,” and her stash of secret White House recordings. Then on Wednesday came the president’s revocation of the security […]

“Here we are in peak vacation season, but I’m afraid to take my paid vacation time off !” “Regrettably, you are not alone. According to the U.S. Travel Association, more than half of American workers aren’t using all of their vacation time. In its Project: Time Off report, the association found that nearly a quarter […]

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped. In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres. In 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I. In 1940, […]