Representative Moolenaar touted his belief in the “right to life” the day before federal agents killed Alex Pretti and the administration spread lies to excuse it. I answered his survey by pointing out that if he truly valued life, he’d condemn the killing and demand accountability. His silence speaks volumes.
Category Archives: Politics
The hour of decision
Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis while he was restrained and unarmed, just weeks after an ICE agent killed Renée Good. Senior officials have denied what the videos plainly show and blocked meaningful investigation. This post calls citizens, lawmakers, and Christian leaders to confront the killings, the falsehoods surrounding them, and the urgent need for accountability.
Trump is becoming dictator
Peter Wehner clearly states the case that Trump is in the process of making himself a dictator (“authoritarian” national leader).
What Angela Rigas said about the protestors at her house
A legal and moral examination of Angela Rigas’s response to a peaceful protest outside her home—what the law says, what her rhetoric reveals, and what leadership should look like.
Priority Health, Integrity Insurance, and MAGA provocations
Does Priority Health support or condone the identification of its brand with MAGA and anti-LGBTQ provocations? What does the selling of insurance have to do with partisan-political trash talking? Integrity Insurance in Dutton, at the corner of Hanna Lake and 68th Street, has a sign on its building that rotates through a sequence of messages.Continue reading “Priority Health, Integrity Insurance, and MAGA provocations”
How not to prepare for the next epidemic: an open letter to the Board of Education of Caledonia Community Schools
A letter urging the Board of Education of Caledonia Community Schools not to adopt an unwise and possibly illegal policy and waste our money lawyering up to defend it.
2024 election wrap-up: Caledonia (MI) Community Schools
My wrap-up on the 2024 school-board election, starting from a small note from Florida with a big tie-in to Caledonia. It’s all about this question: should school-board elections be partisan or nonpartisan? Education won a small victory in Florida, where education very much needs some victories: voters rejected an initiative to make school board electionsContinue reading “2024 election wrap-up: Caledonia (MI) Community Schools”
Hearing “The Partisan” in St. Malo
American reflections on visiting the French coastal city reduced to rubble in All the Light We Cannot See
State rep too blinded by partisanship to show compassion over latest mass shooting
The title of this post is not my own creation. It was supplied by The Sun and News when this essay was printed in today’s edition in Letters from Our Readers. It accurately captures the central point. Again with the killings. Again, a person who under any sane regulatory system would not have been permittedContinue reading “State rep too blinded by partisanship to show compassion over latest mass shooting”
Encouraging better leadership
If our aim is to seek progress not breakdown, peace not civil war, unity not division, then in our public conversations we must avoid caricature, hyperbole, and name-calling.
Verba Sparsa 