58 Years Since Voting Rights Act
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...
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mkmitigates
- May 9
- 4 min
The Preamble’s Failed Promises
In 1787, the Founders of the United States of America created a Constitution whose essence is set forth in a 52-word Preamble, which...
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mkmitigates
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Death by Imprisonment
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...
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mkmitigates
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
The End of ROE V WADE
This is the latest in a series of political “poems” (more doggerel than poetry – see “The Chosen One,” “Banana Republicans,” and “Humpty...
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mkmitigates
- Dec 29, 2020
- 4 min
Justice Corruptus
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...
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mkmitigates
- Dec 1, 2020
- 7 min
Kennedy Assassination: A Memory
Slouching Toward Bethlehem/November 22, 2020 It was the fall semester of my junior year, exactly 57 years ago today. The first of my...
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mkmitigates
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
A Wink and a Nudge
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...
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mkmitigates
- Jul 20, 2020
- 4 min
We're Back in the Killing Business
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...
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mkmitigates
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
The Chosen One, 02/20/2020
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...
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mkmitigates
- Jan 17, 2020
- 5 min
Why I Can’t Support Bernie for President
January 17, 2020 With relatives and friends urging me to vote for Bernie Sanders for President, and, with just weeks to go before...
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mkmitigates
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Banana Republicans, December, 2019
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...
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mkmitigates
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
Humpty Trumpty
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...
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mkmitigates
- Sep 26, 2019
- 9 min
Ambivalence about the Death Penalty: An exchange of emails
I initiated the following exchange of emails while listening on the radio to Isabelle Allende interview a well-known radio personality. I...
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mkmitigates
- May 6, 2019
- 4 min
19th Century Man in the 21st Century
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...
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mkmitigates
- Mar 26, 2019
- 11 min
My Life in Crime
My Life in Crime By Michael A. Kroll March, 2019 Introduction: When Governor Gavin Newsom pulled the plug on California’s chamber of...
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mkmitigates
- Feb 16, 2019
- 3 min
I Beg Your Pardon
Like Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager who is angling for a presidential pardon to escape the consequences of...
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mkmitigates
- Jan 11, 2019
- 3 min
Silver Linings
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?...
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mkmitigates
- Jan 8, 2019
- 3 min
A Madman's Rants
A Turning Point? Tuesday, January 8, 2018 These are crazy times. A former Republican Speaker of the House is pushing marijuana. Choose...
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