Today is September 11th…..

….and I feel numb. Not sad, not angry, not anything. Just numb. Everybody has their “where were you when this happened?” story, and I am no different. I was in the 12th grade at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and I was sitting in Ms. Hilker’s Trigonometry class. Before class even gets started, [...]

Principle, party, or person? A progressive’s struggle with President Obama.

I have been a very staunch defender of President Obama, both on this blog and in person. It has been only on the rare monumental screw-ups where I have upbraided his poor decision making (see Shirley Sherrod). But lately, I have faced a really big struggle within myself because this Administration has undertaken some actions [...]