In the spring of this year, a decision that I made last fall will come to fruit and will change my life profoundly for better or worse. I will be leaving Chicago, the city where I have resided my entire life to move to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Employment opportunities in…
According to statistics, whites are going to be the minority in this country by 2042, so some whites are running around like chickens with no necks, worried about keeping their notions of white superiority intact.
By Jim Hoover Acrimony and lies are so much a part of Republican rhetoric that we need a full-time monitor just to catch and register the breadth and the scope of Republican fabrication, for it is rampant. We also need a historian to research the wild references made by…
By OcJim President Obama made an important announcement: as currently planned, the Keystone Pipeline will be dropped. The response from Republicans was predictable. I do get tired of right wing lies, like John Boehner’s claim that the Keystone Pipeline would create 100,000 jobs. Even more brazen and divorced from…
By Jim Hoover Have you ever considered the toll imposed by the so-called “job creators”? And don’t forget our role in this agenda-inspired phrase, “job creator”. This plaint is part of rote learning conservatives want to impose on the rest of us. The meaning is clear. Corporate executives are…
By Jim Hoover I can remember that when JFK was president in the 1960s, he gave credence to the best minds in America and routinely utilized them for important advisory and cabinet positions in his administration. Contrarily George W. Bush seemed to brag about his own mediocrity, demonizing the…
By Jim Hoover You remember hearing the legend that depicted Roman Emperor Nero as fiddling while Rome burned and was mostly destroyed by fire in 64 AD? The truth of the legend is irrelevant. What is relevant is that corruption and narcissism were endemic in Roman society at the…
By: Ms. Henry In the United States, disparities between rich and poor have risen sharply and individuals are increasingly unlikely to escape from their economic position. There are few stories of how someone made it from “rags to riches,” and families are increasing their annual working hours, if they have…