And Now for Today’s News: Lincoln’s Second InauguralJanuary 6, 2021Mary Ann CallahanCongress, Election Rioting, trump, Trump ProtestsNo CommentsThe events of today, January 6, 2021, will, as FDR once said, “live in infamy”. The insurrection being perpetrated as I write has been fueled…
Our Country Went Down to GeorgiaJanuary 4, 2021Mary Ann CallahanCharlie Daniels Devil Went Down to Georgia, CNN ROck and Roll President, Georgia Secretary of State, Jimmy Carter, trump, US ElectorateNo CommentsLast night, the country was again presented with the dichotomy that we have become in the time of Trump. This time it was Georgia, and…
It’s Hard to Say Your Yogurt is SourJune 23, 2017Mary Ann CallahanCongress, Democrats, Humanity, people, Republicans, The US President, trump, US GovernmentNo CommentsIt’s a rare thing when I can see a direct connection between the folk wisdom of Afghanistan and current events in the US. Today, however,…
The Clouded Hope That Was AfghanistanMay 31, 2017Mary Ann CallahanAfghanistan, Afghanistan bomb, international, isaf, isis, kabul, kabul bombing, nation building, taliban, terrorism, trump, united nations, us foreign policy, war machineNo Comments When I landed at the Kabul Airport in March 2003, it only had three walls, and they had been bombed and were riddled with bullet…