Mid-Terms are Tipping Point for America
November 8, election day, will be a tipping point for American democracy. We voters will be motivated by any one of many controversies...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 14, 2022
- 2 min
There’s Your Open Carry Law at Work for You
Holding their military grade weapons, Trump fanatics menaced FBI headquarters just outside the building in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday,...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Red, White, and Blue: Showing Your True Stripes
By all means, GOP/MAGA, wrap yourself in the American flag while selling state secrets to foreign enemies? Scream “defund the FBI,”...
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Nancy Dafoe
- May 28, 2022
- 4 min
Did We Give Up Reason After Sandy Hook?
Something has to change in this physically beautiful land of ours. On December 12, 2012, 20 little kids (mostly 5 and 6-year-old...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
Feeling Hopeless? Don't. Become Activists for Democracy and Justice
After the unbelievable acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse who walked out of a court house in Kenosha, Wisconsin a free man after murdering two...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
Grotesque Wealth Inequities
Boy on the Skin of an Airplane They say, “the journey is everything,” with our destination always and forever the same, but what of those...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 17, 2021
- 2 min
It Was a Day Like Any Other Day
“It’s like this,” she said, "the reason I'm finding it so hard to write," she said before clicking on her computer to catch the day’s...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
Dealing with Collective Anxiety: Discovering the Dissectologist in Me
Stress builds and waits. It simmers until boiling insinuates but does not yet break surface, doing damage beneath the skin. Four years of...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
Never One for Heroes
Never one for having heroes, finding our commonality in the failings of human beings, I recently have had to rethink my position on the...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Jan 4, 2021
- 3 min
Lordy, There Are Tapes!
Welcome 2021. A New Year gives us reason to hope, to work harder to shed the stench of the Trump regime from this country and the world....
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Nancy Dafoe
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time: A Look at Trump’s Seditious Claim of 2020 Victory
You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time The old adage about deception, “You Can Fool Some of the People all of the Time, and all...
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Anne Wiegard
- Dec 10, 2020
- 6 min
The Painful Price of Truth Decay
Any reputable doctor will tell you that the human mouth is the anatomical gateway to overall health. Poor dental care and untreated tooth...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Dangerous "Right-Wing" Media Outlets Will Remain With Us
Long after the outcome of this most consequential Presidential election on November 3, 2020, Americans will be left with the engines that...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Oct 15, 2020
- 6 min
"Concern for the Sanctity of Life"
Concern for the Sanctity of Life? At the recent vice-presidential debate, Mike Pence sanctimoniously, and with conspicuous fly on his...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
Endings
Drizzling rain dropping with temperatures—that kind of weather seeping into everything. Time to take boats out of the water—our big, old...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Sep 17, 2020
- 7 min
"Was" and "Again," Our Failure to Come to Terms with our National Shame
Nobel Laureate and American literary giant William Faulkner once designated the “saddest” words in the English language as “was” and...
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Anne Wiegard
- Sep 15, 2020
- 4 min
The Lesson of the Pandemic: Choose Good Government over Bad Government
Because societies will always be burdened with some people who behave badly, we need to collectively create common sense rules, and we...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
"The Media Learned Nothing from 2016"
James Fallows, national correspondent and writer extraordinaire, has an editorial column out in the September 16, 2020 issue of The...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
The Great Divide and Our U.S. Constitution Under Trump
The Great Divide and our U.S Constitution Under Trump On the way home from getting my car repaired, I was struck by a giant sign along...
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Nancy Dafoe
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
Racism and Sexism Continue to Define America
The moment former Vice President and current Presidential candidate Joe Biden announced his preference for a woman Vice President, overt...
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