Month: May 2016

Trump, Clinton and the Veterans

May 31, 2016. Donald Trump released a list of veterans charities to which he directed $5.6 million in donations from a fundraiser he held in January as cover for his refusal to attend a debate among Republican presidential candidates. This was accompanied by a larger than usual portion of vitriol aimed at assembled reporters. It…

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Not so fast on sentencing reform

Boston Herald Op-Ed, May 29, 2016 Federal and state government initiatives on the drug epidemic and sentencing reform are working at cross-purposes. Both are attempting to come to grips with the ever-increasing epidemic of opiate and heroin
addiction that has left death, crime and ruined lives in its wake at all levels of society. Both Congress…

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The Transgender Non-Issue

Note: The sentiment of this post was the the subject of a Cape Cod Times letter on May 19, 2016. May 16, 2016. Without any discernible public need, the federal, state and some local governments have taken up the cause of transgender use of public facilities traditionally segregated by sex, such as rest rooms and communal locker…

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Hillary should refuse to debate Donald

[Note: A shorter modified version of this post appeared as a Letter to the Editor, Boston Globe,May 14, 2016] The road to 270 electoral votes on the map shows an advantage to a generic Democrat over a generic Republican, mainly because Democrats have the edge in former swing states where the minority population is growing fast. Of…

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GOP on the Brink

Boston Herald Letter, May 4, 2016 George Will’s advice to conservatives, distressed at the prospect of Donald Trump’s nomination, is not plainly stated but clear: Elect Hillary Clinton (“Damage control order of day if Trump gets nod,” May 1). Meanwhile, he condemns the Republican Party to the fate of the Whigs by declaring that “collaborationists…

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