Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 33 seconds . . . Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has been busted for having presented to a conference hosted by the European-American Unity… [read more]
Reading time – 52 seconds . . . I haven’t a clue what percentage of our police officers nationwide are solid citizens whose intent matches what is written on the sides of their cruisers: “To Serve and Protect.” My guess is that the number is very high. For simplicity, let’s call them good cops. There… [read more]
Reading time – 57 seconds . . . Three more high school children are dead and three more are in critical condition because a handgun was easy to obtain and was the preferred method of dispute resolution for yet another hurt/angry American. In the first year following the murders of 20 little kids and 7… [read more]
Reading time – 59 seconds . . . The story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is well known, both because of the 2004 movie Miracle and because if you were alive on February 22, 1980 you remember what happened, where you were and who was with you. It was one of those defining… [read more]
Reading time – 111 seconds . . . I wasn’t a 60s radical. I wasn’t even politically conscious. In fact, I was essentially out to lunch regarding social and political issues. I missed the marches, the sit-ins, the banners, the demands for change, the chanting in front of the White House. Even Woodstock passed… [read more]
Reading time – 47 seconds . . . Boy, was I wrong. I grew up the same way everyone did. I was a kid. Adults were bigger. They were in charge. They knew stuff. They were really good at making a serious face. Parenthetically, as I write these words, I now wonder why I ever… [read more]
Reading time – 126 seconds . . . Doris Haddock is not a well known name, but you might know her as Granny D. She saw clearly the corrupting influence of big money in our politics and on our country and determined to do something about it. To draw attention to this issue she set… [read more]
Reading time – 49 seconds . . . If you’re a regular reader, you know that my belief is that big money in our politics is the mother of all of our political dysfunction. It is what sustains the lunacy and blocks progress for our people and keeps us from solving our problems. Of all… [read more]
Reading time – 73 seconds . . . In his stunning article in the June, 2014 The Atlantic exploring the issue of reparations for our American treatment of slaves and the effects on their descendents, Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes a Chicago Tribune editorial from 1891 that addresses this same issue: “They have been taught to labor…. [read more]
Reading time – 19 seconds . . . Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) has sponsored a bill to amend the Constitution and has 37 co-sponsors. His bill will overturn corporate rights and begin to get democracy killing big money out of our politics and start us on the road to solving the complex problems that are… [read more]
