Michael A. Kroll

September 11, 2024 A debate for the ages, it should give her a bump The best reason to elect her? She ain’t Donald Trump! I...

Voting: The Enemy Is Us The power to change the biggest issues that bedevil this country is in our hands. It’s called the vote. If those...

In 1787, the Founders of the United States of America created a Constitution whose essence is set forth in a 52-word Preamble, which...

In 2018, a 19-year-old former student at a Florida high school, Nikolas Cruz, shot and killed 17 students and adults there, and later...

This is the latest in a series of political “poems” (more doggerel than poetry – see “The Chosen One,” “Banana Republicans,” and “Humpty...

A Woman and a Child December 24, 2020 If a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a single word or two can create and recreate an...

Slouching Toward Bethlehem/November 22, 2020 It was the fall semester of my junior year, exactly 57 years ago today. The first of my...

Trump’s Wink and Nudge I can’t be the only one who saw it, can I? I’ve listened to the many similar analyses of the GOP Convention: their...

Back in the Killing Business: July 20, 2020 Michael A. Kroll Nearly forty years ago, I had the privilege of sitting next to a grieving...

CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO At once I saw our country’s flaw: “No one,” they said, “is above the law.” But I am The Chosen One, like Iran’s...

January 17, 2020 With relatives and friends urging me to vote for Bernie Sanders for President, and, with just weeks to go before...

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Banana Republicans Got the impeachment blues, just want to cry Watched every second, don’t ask me why (I’d rather...

Humpty Trumpty has one hell of a gall The tales he tells are more than just tall He holds his deplorables in perpetual thrall He loves...

I initiated the following exchange of emails while listening on the radio to Isabelle Allende interview a well-known radio personality. I...

February 17, 2019 I came close to the edge this past week. I’m not that far from it now. Unsurprisingly for anyone who knows me, the...

My Life in Crime By Michael A. Kroll March, 2019 Introduction: When Governor Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on California’s chamber of...

Like Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager who is angling for a presidential pardon to escape the consequences of...

Are you sick of it? Sick of the lies? Sick of the absence of any sense of decency (at long last)? Sick of the overt and covert racism?...

A Turning Point? Tuesday, January 8, 2018 These are crazy times. A former Republican Speaker of the House is pushing marijuana. Choose...