PEACEFUL POLITICS COMES FROM PEACEFUL PEOPLE: A HARD AND HOPEFUL LOOK AT...
From the explosion of Osama Bin Laden into our consciousness on that terrible day in 2001, all the way to his death, feels like a frame of existence, a distinct period of our...
View ArticleBusiness that Unifies, Business that Divides
Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas – The Washington Post. The reports demonstrating Bain and Romney’s deep involvement in aiding the steady demise...
View ArticleTHE BOSTON EFFECT AND THE AGE OF OBAMA
Some observers have claimed that terror won the day in Boston because it managed to shut down an entire modern city of the United States. This is a misreading of the entire...
View ArticleOne’s Woman’s Battle to Evolve the American Spirit: A Mother’s Day Note from...
Please read this amazing proclamation from 1870 by an amazing American woman, Julie Howe. I grew up with the Battle Hymn of the Republic ringing in my ears, played on so many...
View ArticleThe Promise and Peril of Gestures of Peace
I was about to publish the piece below one day ago. It was based on a press conference of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday, July 21, 2013. But just two days later, the same...
View ArticleThe Devil You Know is Always Better–Except That He Is Not
Rational Americans are surprised that no one sees the danger of underestimating domestic right-wing terrorism by the general public. In this recent article, CNN rightly documents...
View ArticlePrejudice: Is It So Bad?
In this hysterical video, and this great follow-up video, the actors bring to light how quick we are, even when seeming to be liberal, to put people into entire categories of their...
View ArticleU.S. Senator Graham says Iran’s help needed to avoid collapse in Iraq | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/15/us-iraq-usa-security-idUSKBN0EQ0UH20140615 Graham last week said American air strikes in Iraq will be needed to halt the advance of...
View ArticleBuried in History…?
“Onlookers sometimes fired rifles and handguns hundreds of times into the corpse while people cheered and children played during the festivities. Pieces of the corpse were taken by...
View ArticleSenior Males in Congress are Wimping out, while the Women have Become Fierce...
Perhaps it is my imagination but it is my impression that the Democratic senior women of Congress are fighting like hell, while the senior Democratic men are sagging, compromising and capitulating to...
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