May 2021

I’ve spent several days on the radio this week discussing the latest revelations concerning the origin of COVID-19. A number of callers asked a question that I find absurd and it is this: “Who cares?”

The Pipeline itself technically wasn’t hacked. I would know; I am the CEO and chief security officer at a private cybersecurity firm that was contracted by a company in Colonial’s supply chain following the ransomware attack.

President Joe Biden’s proposed spending, in excess of entire fiscal budgets, shows evidence of extraordinary financial ambition and effort to re-engineer America in ways that may exceed that of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ during the Great Depression.

I suppose I am simultaneously reveling and lamenting for a variety of reasons, but I am doing so through the unique lens of a white woman who has been married to a Black man for nearly 22 years. I am also reflecting as a mother of three biracial teenagers.

As the COVID pandemic recedes, states and the Department of Labor have started to bring back work search requirements. Some ask, however, whether it is too soon to reimpose search requirements.

Humankind’s failure to focus on population is equivalent to health care addressing illness by focusing on symptoms instead of cause, making short-term relief a false sign of causal abatement.

Baby Anna was just welcomed to the world less than 24 hours ago when she starts a nails-on-chalkboard, high-pitched wailing cry that won’t stop.

There remains another midterm intangible that cannot be avoided by either party. Two cases will be heard this fall by the Supreme Court – which has been reshaped by three, Trump-nominated Justices.

Unless the Republican Party is comfortable with the future of conservatism riding on the shoulders of Senator Joe Manchin, it’s time for the GOP to try governing rather than obstruction. 

As Americans, we have to recognize the violation of Palestinian human rights. To publicly recognize the suffering of Palestinians does not make one antisemitic or against the existence of Israel.