Our Health Care:  Moving from Dream to Reality

Our Health Care: Moving from Dream to Reality

Are you tired of the hassle with co-pays and deductibles?  Are you sick with “in network provider” or “out of network provider?”  Do you have to keep taking painkillers, while waiting for your insurance company to approve the surgery...
St. Petersburg Health Care Rally

St. Petersburg Health Care Rally

It was a warm, sunny, Florida day on a Saturday morning, [February 25, 2017,] in downtown St. Pete. Nevertheless, several hundred people chose to meet with their Congressman, Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburg), in front of his office. Unlike his Republican counterparts,...
Celebrate your Freedom to Oppose President Trump

Celebrate your Freedom to Oppose President Trump

Christine Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. Halima hid under the bed and tried not to watch as the soldiers slit her brother’s throat. It was 1999 in Sierra Leone, and the Country was in the middle of a bloody civil war....
Indeed, the Emperor Is Naked

Indeed, the Emperor Is Naked

Many of my good friends voted for Donald J. Trump. They really did not like Hillary Clinton and saw her as the Establishment candidate, the “Sage Canaday” [mountain-ultra-trail runner] of the rich and powerful, who have exploited them. The fact that the...
The Alternative Facts Administration

The Alternative Facts Administration

Editor’s note:  John L. Micek is the Opinion Editor and Political Columnist for PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, PA. So, this is the funhouse mirror of a White House that the American public will be treated to, for the next four years. The day after...