Barb Woolard

This Week’s Edition of the Swamp News

Chaos in The Swamp continues into its sixth week. The slightly better news of the week is that Kellyanne Conway was, for the most part, missing from it. That’s not to s […]

There’s a name for sensational information and opinion sources posing as news: we call them “fake news.” A writer who identifies as Seminole Democrat offers this definition of the term: “’Fake News’ is a very rea […]

Trump’s Top Ten Travesties, Week 5

Welcome back to our weekly Swamp News chat! Those gators have been well fed this week! Here’s a sampling of goings-on in our nation’s capital during the last 7 days. It was a […]

Trump’s Top Ten Travesties, Week 4

Well, I’d like to report that our “president” has made progress on his promise to drain the swamp, but in fact, those gators are getting fatter by the day. This week’s […]

Trump’s Top Ten Travesties, Week 3

This week, in our nation’s increasingly chaotic capital, the Trump administration has clearly NOT drained the swamp. Here’s the raw meat they’ve thrown to those swamp gators […]

Trump’s Top Ten Travesties, Week 2

This week, our new “president”

Insulted the prime minister of Australia, one of our allies, in an angry and thuggish phone conversation which Trump ended abruptly less […]

This is a column I’ve been doing for an action group newsletter, and I’m going to start sharing it here on my blog also. Even though conscientious readers will already be aware of the events by the time the list […]

For the last few days, a copy-and-paste post has been circulating on social media, asking those horrified by last week’s election results what it is we’re afraid of. Many of us have expressed fear, along with dis […]

My next fear is the mainstreaming of attitudes which we thought we’d driven underground. Racism and bigotry have always existed in America; they’re written into our DNA. The slaves were here before the p […]

In an excellent article titled “The Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy,” David Frum begins with this:
The first guardrail to go missing was the old set of expectations about how a candidate for pre […]

For the last few days, a copy-and-paste post has been circulating on social media, asking those horrified by last week’s election results what it is we’re afraid of. Many of us have expressed fear, along wit […]

What America needs right now, more than anything else, is a grandma! We’ve always had our Uncle Sam, but today we need Grandma Samantha to wrap her arms around us, dry our tears, bind our wounds, and tell us we’re […]

The long battle has ended, and the forces of darkness have won. None of us can even imagine the devastation that lies ahead during the next four years, and right now I don’t even want to try. I don’t want to tel […]

Immokalee, Florida, is one of the more unlikely places on the planet where one might expect to have a soul-impacting experience; but that’s just what happened to me on Tuesday of this week. As I was standing i […]

You know how you feel when someone is being a real jerk to you, and you engage calmly and reasonably in a conversation with that person? Then a third person comes along and says, “Okay, you two, break it up. Y […]

The only thing more shocking than Donald Trump’s lewd dialogue with Billy Bush in the now-infamous hot-mic tape is the number of people who have defended him and shrugged off his comments as “boy talk.” At the s […]