Mitch's Blog

Back in the 1990’s, President Clinton came up with a policy called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as it pertained to gays being in the military. At the time I thought it was a pretty useless piece of legislation, yet it’s persisted for these many years. Back in the 30’s through 80’s, maybe I could see […]

Last week, leading up to September 11th, there was a lot of conversation going on about this preacher in Florida who had announced that he was going to be having a Koran burning (they keep changing the spelling of the book so I’m going with this one for now). I found the whole conversation somewhat […]

This won’t be a popular statement to the majority of people in the United States, but it’s not supposed to be. Folks, it’s always about race; plain and simple. Now, why am I making such a statement? What’s prompting this particular post and how does it pertain to what’s going on in this country? If […]

This past week I heard that there were plans for allowing a mosque to be built near the place where the Twin Towers came down. I immediately didn’t like it one bit. I don’t know that there’s many people who believe in diversity more than I do. I’ve written about it often here and in […]

I was at a meeting yesterday when the subject of the Arizona Immigration law came up. I don’t think I’ve hidden my views on this subject from anyone, and as someone who talks about diversity, it would make sense that I would take a position against it. Of course, I knew better as soon as […]