Category Archives: Politics

Where’s the Outrage?

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Joe Benning

In 1996 the GOP candidate for President, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, used to tick off a laundry list of horribles mostly having to do with charges that President Clinton was sleazy and that a biased liberal press was protecting … Continue reading →

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Tired of Winning Yet?

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Joe Benning

Well, that was fast.   Donny and Chucky and Nancy are now BFFs. And Donny is in a good mood because he got some good press; Chucky and Nancy said nice things about him, and he thinks he may have … Continue reading →

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Merrily We Roll Along: A Play

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Joe Benning

Act 1, Scene 1: Candidate Donald Trump strides to the stage and stands behind a lectern. There is not a teleprompter in sight. A Greek style chorus of Trumpkins stands in the wings. Donald Trump: We are going to build … Continue reading →

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Our Core Values

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Joe Benning

Ex President Barack Obama has emerged to denounce current President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Obama’s executive order known as DACA. The decision, according to Mr. Obama, did not constitute a “legal requirement”. It was, he opined, “…a political decision, … Continue reading →

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The End of the Rule of Law?

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Joe Benning

On July 31, 2017 U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled that former Sheriff Joe Arpaio was guilty of “flagrantly” disregarding an order by federal District Court Judge G. Murray Snow to halt the immigration round-ups for which he had … Continue reading →

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The New Barbarians

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Joe Benning

Toward the end of February 2001 Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s spiritual leader, ordered the destruction of all the statues in Afghanistan because, he said, they were idolatrous. And so the Taliban went about the systematic destruction of pre-Islamic artwork, which … Continue reading →

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Death in Charlottesville, Virginia

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Joe Benning

It has come to this: The President of the United States had to be dragged kicking and screaming into making a statement condemning neo-Nazis in Virginia. This was not a mere abstract exercise. The neo-Nazis in question had staged a … Continue reading →

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The First Duty of Intelligent Men

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Joe Benning

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” George Orwell   With Orwell’s aphorism in mind I am reminded of when I served as a juror in a trial.   It was a criminal case … Continue reading →

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Charlie Gard, Requiem in Pace

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Joe Benning

There was a time not so long ago when courts would intervene if parents refused to get medical help for a gravely ill minor child. Now, in England, we have the case of Charlie Gard. In that case the courts … Continue reading →

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The Impeachable Mr. Trump

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Joe Benning

It is now beyond dispute that the Russian government of Vladimir Putin sought to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. That the Russian government tried to subvert the American political process should come as no surprise—they’ve been … Continue reading →

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