When I was 17 and my parents told me we were moving to the United States of America I didn't quite know how to react to that piece of news, but when they told me we were moving to Texas the reaction was immediate: dread. I thought that people…
It is not every day that the US Supreme Court so actively challenges the designated constitutional authority of the US Congress, considering that Congress, as it did with the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 2006, enforces the right of citizens of the United States to vote. Congress is specifically…
You often hear egregious chatter by apologists for the wealthy, conspicuously mouthed by puppeteers of the rich, who almost exclusively come from the Republican Party. They say that the opulent are the ultimate god-given product of a meritocracy. The corporate executives (like Jamie Dimon, CEO of Chase, for example)…
Did you know that George W. Bush, even as he was preparing to hawk the opening of his Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, was convicted of war crimes? Just a month after his conviction, ribbon cutting ceremonies opened his Presidential Center. There is beauty – architectural with “Freedom Hall,”…
A Harvard graduate and former Marine says gays are “perverted” and “very sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally.” Obama has “Muslim sensibilities.” Planned Parenthood can be compared to the KKK. Bishop E.W. Jackson is running for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia as a Republican. Ken Cuccineli, the Republican candidate for…
Political use of the IRS by past presidents was much more problematic than any current use by the Obama administration. In many cases, Democrats and Republicans use the IRS against targets more personal and with a lot less moral justification. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s frequent use of the IRS…
We will have another financial meltdown and perhaps another taxpayer bailout of too-big-to-fail banks, banks even bigger than they were in 2008. Why another meltdown? The greedfest was hardly interrupted. Bonuses and casino capitalism continue. On the morning of July 21st, 2010, it was already evident. On that morning,…
Sunday’s Sixty Minutes offered for us a needed, even hopeful story of good and selfless Americans striving to help their struggling fellow citizens, doing things that an obstructionist, do-nothing Congress will not do. Still fresh in my mind is the action of partisan, loathsome Senators, thwarting the will of…
Republicans are great at the fear game. Even recent history shows Republicans have a proven tradition of utilizing the human specter of primeval fear in achieving their objectives. Of course such tactics are coupled with the backlash caused by change and the fear that it engenders. Take Ronald Reagan…
It was 30 seconds of Melissa Harris-Perry on an MSNBC promo for education, community, and family, but some 65 minutes of Fox News and media-gorging on other right-wing sources – all like feral dogs after raw meat. Melissa’s statement: We have never invested as much in public education as…