Reading time – 69 seconds . . . You really need to take the time: – To hear the words of John Lewis, a man who marched on Bloody Sunday and whose thanks that day was a fractured and bleeding scull. His reward – and ours – is that he has served in Congress, a… [read more]
Were You There?
Reading time – 22 seconds . . . You know the tune, so sing along. It was fifty years ago today Dr. King taught all of us to say, Freedom’s going in and out of style And oppression is so very vile. So may I introduce to you The truth you’ve known for all these… [read more]
A Bubble Waiting to be Popped
Reading time – 54 seconds . . . Rudy got it right: President Obama wasn’t raised like he was and he probably doesn’t love America like Rudy loves America and maybe, as Rudy said, he doesn’t love Rudy, either. For example: Rudy’s dad – Harold Giuliani – was a convicted felon (robbery) and spent a… [read more]
Republican Judge Hanen
Reading time – 43 seconds . . . Judge Andrew S. Hanen, a Republican judge in Republican Texas, heard testimony from the attorneys representing 26 Republican governors seeking to stuff President Obama’s executive order limiting deportations back into the president’s face. Republican Judge Hanen granted the Republican plaintiff’s petition on procedural grounds – i.e., a… [read more]
We’ve Forgotten
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . Before the New Deal millions of Americans spent their later years, when they were no longer able to earn a wage, in abject poverty. That’s a key reason Social Security was created. We seem to have forgotten about all that suffering of our elderly. Before Medicare millions… [read more]
Anyone?
Reading time – 47 seconds . . . Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is making all the right moves to play in the Big Game. Over the past few years he has slashed support for state workers, those leaches on society who do unnecessary things, like plow snow from the highways, supply clean drinking water and… [read more]
An Open Letter to Sarah
Reading time – 32 seconds . . . Hi Sarah, it’s me. We heard you announce that you’re looking into running for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States. That really should come as no surprise to anyone remotely familiar with you as the half-term former governor of Alaska who quit when… [read more]
We’re Solving The Wrong Problem
Reading time – 119 seconds . . . Nobody on the right, left or center disputes that a primary job of our federal government is national defense, ensuring our security in a dangerous world. ISIS or ISIL or Islamic Caliphate – whatever you want to call it – has incrementally and brutally plunged the Middle… [read more]
Your Freedom
Reading time – 49 seconds . . . For our absolutists . . . You’re an absolutist and you believe fervently in individual liberty. You don’ need no stinking gub-mint messing with your life. It seems that we have a national epidemic of “You can’t tell ME what to do!” causing uncontrolled inflammation of amygdalas… [read more]
A New Hope For Republicans
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . The Republican Party has fractured along the “it’s your fault” lines and each faction is devoid of any characteristics of the Eisenhower Republican Party. It was Eisenhower who proposed and promoted the now-crazy notion that there are a bunch of things that we need to do collectively,… [read more]
