Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Offers to Exchange Himself for Hostages

October 16, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

“I am ready for an exchange, anything, if this can lead to freedom, to bring the children home. No problem. There is total willingness on my part,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered to exchange himself for the child hostages Hamas is holding. Cardinal Pierbattista is the leader of the Latin Rite Catholics in Israel and Gaza. Christians are a minority in Gaza. While many of them are Orthodox and Roman Catholic, there are... Read more

Once Again, America is the Arsenal of Democracy.

October 12, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Americans can be proud of the way President Biden has handled both the war in Ukraine and the current crisis in the Middle East. Franklin Roosevelt said “America is the arsenal of democracy.” That is true. We have been the arsenal of democracy for many decades. President Biden’s response to the ruthless invasion of Ukraine by Putin and the bloody attack on Israeli civilians last weekend has been to continue that role. He healed our damaged alliances with NATO and... Read more

The Republican Party has hobbled and crippled the United States of America in a time of war.

October 11, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Republicans in the United States Senate continue to do nothing while one of their own, Senator Tommy Tuberville, decapitates America’s military. For months, Tuberville has used his committee position to block the appointment of any officers to any position of command within the United States military. He announced today that he’s doubling down on his attack on America’s military preparedness, no matter the Hamas attack on Israel. Mitch McConnell could remove Tuberville from his committee assignment with a flick of... Read more

God help us to conquer the menace of evil.

October 11, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

We are swimming in a sea of evil. The pillars of civilized society are shaken by corruption of faith and false idols of power. Here in America, our clergy sell the Cross for access to political power and money. Savage warfare in the mis-used name of God bears down on people in the Middle East, while equally savage warfare seeks to enslave Ukraine in the name of the avaricious dreams of empire of one sin-sick and evil man. We are... Read more

Strongmen and War: Israel, America and the Price of Political Chaos

October 9, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Israel has been attacked and hundreds Israeli citizens are dead. Many others have been taken hostage. The whole world has seen the videos of bleeding, terrified Israelis with hoods over their heads being shoved and slung around by Hamas “soldiers” triumphantly yelling “Allah Akbar.” We’ve seen the photos of the gutted buildings and bodies lying in the streets. I watched the speech given by the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations in which he said that this was going to... Read more

Republicans Took Out Their Own Speaker. Anything Else is a Lie.

October 5, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Cable News reacted to the ouster of Speaker McCarthy two days ago in varied ways. As usual with these things, there was a momentary confusion among the right wing commentators as they waited for instructions on what their “story” was going to be. In that little lapse, they did what often happens in these moments of no instruction from higher up. Lacking direction on what the “spin” on the ouster was going to be, they said things that were more... Read more

Government by Insanity and Hate: Repubs Dump Their Speaker.

October 4, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Republicans in the United States House of Representatives tossed aside their Speaker yesterday. It remains to be seen what new insanity they will dump on this country in the coming days. But if past is prelude, it will be another chapter of hate-driven, destructive chaos that damages America and harms every living one of us. Yesterday’s Republican “debate” on the question of whether or not to shuck the Speaker they had elected just a few months ago put their hate-filled... Read more

Is Trump’s Nomination for President Inevitable? Thinking through the Numbers.

August 25, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Trump has been the projected winner of the Republican presidential nomination since before he announced his candidacy. Talking heads in print news, network news, cable news, podcasts and the blogosphere, are sharply divided on most things. But on this they are unanimous: Polling shows that Trump will be the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024. They are so sure Trump will win that they are saying that Trump’s opponents are not running for the nomination, that they are actually auditioning to... Read more

Miracle of Democracy: Black Woman DA Leads Trump Indictment

August 15, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Donald Trump, the race-baiting, woman-hating, rapist/serial sexual predator, was indicted yesterday by — get ready for this — a black woman prosecutor, and she did it in that bastion of the Old Confederacy, the great state of Georgia. The democracy that Trump tried to destroy coughed up the most fitting answer to his depredations against women and black people possible, and in the doing of it demonstrated the power and the hope that democracy represents for all of us. Trump... Read more

Is ET Dipping and Dodging and Playing Footsie with Us?

July 26, 2023 By Rebecca Hamilton

Today, the House held a bi-partisan hearing on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), or, as we little folk like to call them UFOs. Several reputable military personnel testified under oath to events they said they personally had witnessed. Meanwhile, over in the Senate, Chuck Schumer has come up with legislation to declassify documents on the subject. The cherry on top is that a couple of years ago former President Obama allowed as how “there is something ‘very interesting’ about UFOs,” that... Read more