Melinda's Ruminations

“Never give in. Never, never, never. Never yield in any way, great or small, large or petty, except to convictions of honor and good sense.”...

What if you were suddenly whisked back to elementary school, and you found yourself face-to-face with a bully threatening to beat you up. No...

Like many, I almost wish that the Supreme Court would rule in favor of the GOP plaintiffs in King v. Burwell so that they will soundly lose...

This is a simple, obvious, and brilliant observation from David Atkins at Political Animal.  It explains why it is a waste of time trying...

Diplomacy can be difficult and time-consuming, but unlike the Neocon 'war first' ideology (preemptive war), diplomacy works. This we...

We have been sentenced to two years of cruelty and hard labor. There will be no escaping the results. We wake up to a different world this ...

There has been one particularly enlightening thing I have learned from the constant television advertisements leading into next week...

Republicans are so stunned by the news that total ACA enrollment has reached 17.8 million that they seem to have decided to forget all...

Between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, America was on its way to becoming closer to an egalitarian society than at any ti...

The problems facing the Affordable Care Act's website have given the law's critics no shortage of ammunition to take potshots a...

60 Minutes apparently believed in the right wing storyline about Benghazi. As a result, they produced a story that never should have ai...

Do you remember the rollout of Medicare Part D? It was a mess. I have had enough of this Republican gloating about HealthCare.gov. ...