Welcome to Life in Our New American Theocracy — Theocracy: a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god; government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided; a form of government in which a religion and the government are intertwined. The Taliban has recently announced that women…

To Republicans (and Democrats) in Congress: Throughout my campaign, I’ve stressed my desire to work with both parties for the benefit of all the American people, Republicans and Democrats. Bipartisan governing: agreeing wherever we can; working together; compromising for the benefit of all; putting country over party. For many years…

How Evolution May Create a Less or More Dangerous Covid-19 Virus (Revised Version) Evolution isn’t occasional huge jumps. It is tiny differences which give some members of a species a higher likelihood of more offspring that live to reproduce. Whatever is able to survive does. …

How to Create a Less Dangerous (or More Dangerous) Covid-19 Virus. What we can learn from evolution and other infectious diseases. Evolution isn’t occasional huge jumps. It is tiny differences which give some members of a species a higher likelihood of more offspring that live to reproduce. Whatever is able…

“In 2017, an Oxfam study found that eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race. . . From 1989 to 2018 the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent saw its net worth…

3 Better Ways to Reduce Income and Wealth Disparity Than a Wealth Tax “In 2017, an Oxfam study found that eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race. . . From 1989 to 2018 the top 1 percent increased its total…

Cyanobacteria: Good, Bad, or Essential? On NPR August 27,2019 , I heard a sad story about 3 dogs who quickly died after playing in a pond in Wilmington, North Carolina. The cause was Cyanobacteria, also called Blue-Green Algae. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/08/27/blue-green-algae-dog-deaths But wait a minute, I thought. What are these things? A…

Women have a fundamental right to choose when and how many children they would like to have. Contraception should be so encouraged and so available, effective, and affordable that in the vast majority of cases, women will choose whether or not to have a child BEFORE they are pregnant. Abortions should be safe, affordable, and readily available when needed, but our goal should be to reduce the number of abortions by 90%.