Kovach via Facebook, Nevermind

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I feel very strongly that people deserve the best leadership possible from their elected officials. Providing a choice in that leadership is crucial to having the best representation possible, which…

Trump was right to violate the US embargo of Cuba

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Henry David Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in response to his 1846 one night imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax that violated his conscience. "Civil Disobedience," became the blueprint for people like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Donald Trump all of whom used principled, non-violence to battle injustice.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Thoreau's call to stand for what one thinks is right no doubt informed Trump's decision to break the immoral US embargo of Cuba in 1998.

GOP First, USA Second

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There is no way Charlie Copeland listened to the jibberish gushing out of Trump's mouth last night and concluded that Trump should be President. By all accounts, Copeland is reasonably intelligent, so there is simply no way he came to that conclusion. But his statement makes it clear that Charlie Copeland is ready and willing to lie in order to be a good party man. His first loyalty is to the GOP. And that is a shame, because as a citizen, his first and highest loyalty should be to the country.