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For Iraq Veteran Saif Khan, Supporting Veterans Means Action
On the Fourth of July weekend, Americans everywhere will gather to celebrate the birth of our nation with a traditional fireworks display, a nice barbecue, or by spending time with family and friends....
View ArticleUnaccompanied, Undocumented Children: Responding With Compassion
When I first met Mario, my husband and I had been married for six months and were volunteering at the local detention center for unaccompanied minors. We knew very little about him other than he had...
View ArticleHobby Lobby: Whose Rights Are Being Denied?
Five male members of the United States Supreme Court have ruled that the religious freedom of at least some for-profit corporations is violated by requiring them to provide contraceptive insurance to...
View ArticleGermany Adopts the World's Best Minimum Wage
This week, the German Bundestag adopted Germany's first minimum wage and a model for the global economy. At €8.50 ($11.60) per hour it is not only among the highest minimum wage rates in the world...
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Desperate Children Are At Our Border Seeking Asylum. Immigration Reform...
What did you ever do to become an American? Perhaps you went through the arduous task of convincing your parents to give birth to you on U.S. soil. If so, then bravo, your cosmic ability to influence...
View ArticleThe Moral Failure of Immigration Reform: Are We Really Afraid of Children?
Did you see the pictures from Tuesday in Murrieta, Calif.? Three buses were full of unaccompanied minors and mothers with children, all fleeing violence in Central America. According to American...
View ArticleGetting Democrats to Vote
After an absence of several years, the new Pew Research Center political typology poll was just released. It breaks the American political electorate into eight groups. And, it makes clear what the...
View ArticleFantasy or Forecast? A Progressive Agenda for the Supreme Court
"It's always darkest before the dawn" sang Pete Seeger. "And that's what keeps me moving on." The recent spate of reactionary decisions by the Roberts Supreme Court -- including this week's outrageous...
View ArticleThe Surprising Drinking Habits of Our Founding Fathers
My fellow Americans, we live in a time of political gridlock, of discord and intractability within the storied halls of government. Both sides of the aisle will often resurrect our Founding Fathers to...
View Article238 Years Later, The Battle Still Rages on
So it's just a wee little bit of an historic week. You know about that whole July 4th Independence Day thing, of course. But this week also marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil...
View ArticleWATCH: Stories You Won't Believe From Some Of The World's Dirtiest Jobs
Are people who do physically demanding, not-afraid-to-get-dirty jobs like farming, mining and sheep castration (yes, you read that right) the happiest people on earth? So says Mike Rowe, host of the...
View ArticleYour Birthday Present for America
Happy Birthday, America! We are, indeed, a great country... and we could be even better if [91.6 Million (41.3 percent), 2012 126.8 Million (58.3 percent), 2010 80.7 Million (37.8 percent), 2008 121.9...
View ArticleThe Independence Day Massacre
Independence is the human separation individuation process on a geopolitical scale. It's the phylogenic manifestation of the human need for identity, with borders being like the ego which is limned by...
View ArticleStand up for Voting Rights -- The Inalienable Rights You Save May Be Your Own
On Independence Day as we gather with loved ones, thank service members who sacrifice for our freedoms, and celebrate the birthday of a nation conceived in liberty, we must take action to preserve the...
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Reflections for Independence Day - Central American Child Refugees and Our...
It's 4th of July weekend and I'm in my backyard. I grill hot dogs and hamburgers while my girls are in the small pool we set up for them wearing their brand new, Fourth-of-July-themed stars and...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court's Crafty Minefield
Back in February in this space, I posed a question about the Harris v. Quinn case then before the Supreme Court. That question: Would a majority of justices side with hard-working women and men trying...
View ArticleCelebrating the Fourth of July with Airport Profiling
I knew it was going to happen. I'd already written this piece in my head by the time I got to the airport. Instead of spending the morning thinking about the barbecue I was going to, the fireworks...
View ArticleReclaiming 'USA!, USA! USA!' from the Bigots in Murrieta
However you feel about the immigration issue, the sight of angry protesters in Murrieta, California screaming "go back to where you come from," and shouting other invectives to a busload of children...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Shows the Need for a More Diverse Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court ended its most recent judicial term this week in a characteristically dramatic fashion. The Court often leaves the most contentious and controversial cases to be decided...
View ArticleWhy Ideology Is Not the Only Way to Approach Political Discourse
I watched the fireworks after watching monster trucks and motocross racing in Pomona, surrounded by many people who think differently than I do. In this time, I had occasion to think about ideology....
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