Author: Judge Michael Boyajian

I am a Democrat living in a Republican neighborhood.  No matter how hot the political debate gets I would never consider harming any of my neighbors nor would they harm me.

The European Union makes for an excellent model for world unity, peace and prosperity not because the EU is better or stronger than the United States but because the union was able to bring together so many historic enemies for the good of all.

Night after night drinking at the trade show hotels bragging to your business colleagues the next morning how drunk you were the night before regardless to the amazing culture there may have been ignored around you.  It was a vacuum in space living not on your own dime but on the corporate expense account.

Mikhail Gorbachev speaking in the New York Times says that a nuclear test ban treaty must be concluded because it is “a step toward creating a truly global community of nations in which all share the responsibility for humankind’s future.”

The era of George W. Bush, by now a distant memory, still has historical significance as the age of mediocrity.  Nowhere is this symbolized more than in the Bush Administration whose ineptitude ranged from the War in Iraq to the response to Katrina where an American city was allowed to die.

I remember in grammar school being chased every day by bullies.  But twice a week after school  I found refuge in the Hicksville Public Library Bookmobile which was parked in front of the school after classes.  The bullies never entered this domain sort of like the sanctuary offered in some cases by churches.

A recent report in the New York Times stated that it appears that the United States Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Roberts is under the sway of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when it comes to business interests.  One court supporter went so far as to say it was a response against business regulation through litigation.

Some Democrats in Congress are denying the reality of the past election.  They are angry over the Democrats loss of the House to Republicans and are letting their anger rule over reason by attacking President Obama for making a tax deal with Republicans in nothing less than Clintonesque fashion.

Some Americans like to think that they are better than others that all other countries are inferior to their nation in all respects.  This type of self proclaimed patriot is found throughout the world in most countries.  Orhan Pamuk writes of certain “ideologues of the Turkish state who expressed their nationalism in unlovely and unadorned authoritarian rhetoric…”