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What is Quid Pro Quo, and what has to be present in order to determine that a Quid Pro Quo exists?  I wanted to take a blog to explain this to people who may not completely understand the subject. QUID PRO QUO - Something Given or Received for Something Else. I am going to use a term that is very important to the impeachment inquiry currently underway in Washington D.C.  The term is important because is makes the term Quid Pro Quo unnecessary.   It is Bribery.  The founders understood bribery as, "an officeholder's abuse of power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest." If you look at that, it literally describes Trump's approach to the Ukraine and other things in his past, and he can be impeached for that.  Let's talk about the facts we know about today. Trump clearly, even in the partial written version of his phone call to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, held nearly 400 million dollars in aid up for som...

It's funny.  Racism is that issue we have faced as a nation for as long as we can look back in our history.  Our nation was built on the racism that existed hundreds of years ago.  Look at slavery.  This is something that has stuck with future generations of African Americans who know that in many cases, the only reason their families ended up in this country was because of the slave trade.    Yes, things have become better at times, but at other times Racism simply finds its way to the forefront of the news and media again and again.  Here we are in 2018, and just over the past 2 months we have seen black men getting the police called on them at Starbucks in a situation that likely would not have occurred if those men were white.  We have had a black college student at Yale fall asleep in a common area as another Yale student called the police on her for no good reason at all.  Now, allegedly, that same person...