Tuesday, 5/31/16, Public Square

Friday, 5/27/16, Public Square

A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including their life. Thank you!

Saturday, 5/21/16, Public Square

“I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.” — Sister Joan Chittister

Wednesday, 5/18/16, Public Square

Saturday,5/14/16, Public Square

The rise of American authoritarianism

“Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order — diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order — are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

When they face physical threats or threats to the status quo, authoritarians support policies that seem to offer protection against those fears. They favor forceful, decisive action against things they perceive as threats. And they flock to political leaders who they believe will bring this action.

 

Authoritarians are thought to express much deeper fears than the rest of the electorate, to seek the imposition of order where they perceive dangerous change, and to desire a strong leader who will defeat those fears with force.”

Wednesday, 5/11/16, Public Square

Wednesday, 5/4/16, Public Square