by Ron Barak | Oct 25, 2016
According to perennial Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, “The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” Has this ever been truer? Said Molly Sauter in the Los Angeles Times,...
by Ron Barak | Oct 11, 2016
Wouldn’t you think that what’s “right” or “sound” would have something to do with it—how our governmental branches do business? In our legislative and executive branches, this is almost never the case. Even more alarming, with increasing frequency, this is ceasing to...
by Ron Barak | Oct 4, 2016
Do we really call these people “leaders”? Of supposedly the greatest nation in the world? (The one that’s about to elect Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump President.) There must be something smarter to call these people running our Congress than...
by Ron Barak | Sep 29, 2016
I’m in . . . an uproar. It’s now been several years since we learned that the IRS, a federal agency under the jurisdiction of the White House and charged with imposing, collecting, and enforcing the collection of, federal taxes, was caught egregiously breaching...
by Ron Barak | Sep 20, 2016
Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 Presidential election. He delivered his inaugural in early 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Calmly, he said to a fearful nation “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” And he went on to...
by Ron Barak | Sep 15, 2016
Colin Kaepernick, second string quarterback for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, takes a knee during the national anthem before each game. It’s his right. After all, maybe he has sciatica. It’s his right because he lives in the country he does. The one he’s criticizing....
