Melinda's Ruminations

Thoughts about life, God, politics, and anything else that comes to mind.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Do not give in

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“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.”...

You cannot shame the shameless

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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...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

The GOP should be careful what they wish for

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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...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Conservatives are immoral

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This is a simple, obvious, and brilliant observation from David Atkins at Political Animal.  It explains why it is a waste of time trying...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Give Peace a Chance

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Diplomacy can be difficult and time-consuming, but unlike the Neocon 'war first' ideology (preemptive war), diplomacy works. This we...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Damn ignorant sheeple

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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 ...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Is Obama running for something in my state?

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There has been one particularly enlightening thing I have learned from the constant television advertisements leading into next week...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

The ACA is here to stay

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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...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

This goes against everything Jesus taught us

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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...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

If wishes had wings…

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The problems facing the Affordable Care Act's website have given the law's critics no shortage of ammunition to take potshots a...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Enough already, part 2: Benghazi

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60 Minutes apparently believed in the right wing storyline about Benghazi. As a result, they produced a story that never should have ai...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

To the GOP: Enough Already

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Do you remember the rollout of Medicare Part D? It was a mess. I have had enough of this Republican gloating about HealthCare.gov. ...
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Melinda
I am a retired history teacher who is driven to talk and write about life and what it all means. My motto is a saying by Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
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