Learn to Respect Each Others' Opinions
Your right to free thought is a gift insured by the Declaration of Independence. Where do you get your opinions? From political spin or critical thinking? Another 4th of July holiday has come and gone...
View ArticleSafe Havens for Our Wildlife Has No ETA on the Horizon
It's a tempting idea -- no doubt one that helped shape the thinking behind the creation of the first federally protected wildlife sanctuaries under Theodore Roosevelt -- that wild animals can exist...
View ArticleThe Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income
In a perhaps apocryphal American cultural adage F. Scott Fitzgerald is often quoted as saying, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Ernest Hemingway responded, "Yes, they have more...
View ArticleStop the Violence -- for the Sake of the Children
As a Muslim Imam born in the Middle East, I've watched from afar with a deep and growing concern as the region (which holds so many wonderful memories from my childhood and youth) is being decimated by...
View ArticleCleveland: 10 Things Politico Should Know
Yesterday, after the Republican National Committee named Cleveland as its 2016 convention site, a writer for Politico added his two cents to the national narrative about Cleveland. "Cleveland: 10...
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Economic Dependence Promotes Prudishness
Stay home, bake white bread, don't sleep around. (Credit: Karen/Flickr.)Marriage, according to those who habitually preface the word with "traditional," is a collaboration, with complementary roles,...
View ArticleLonger Than Pinocchio's Nose
We all remember the childhood story of Pinocchio and the valuable life lesson it taught us about the importance of telling the truth. I've repeated the same story to my own children in hopes that a...
View ArticleI Did Not Come to Praise Richard Mellon-Scaife
Richard "Dickie" Mellon-Scaife the reclusive billionaire publisher and heir of the 19th century Mellon Bank robber barons died at 82 on Friday, the final punctation of a dark biography of political...
View ArticleA Rare Bipartisan Bill Passes Congress
In a time of fractured politics, the reauthorization of major federal legislation designed to help millions of Americans, buoyed by support by both Democrats and Republicans after 18 months of tough...
View ArticleIowa Students Stand Up Against Censorship of Marijuana Legalization
Iowa State University invites its students to craft their own educational "adventure" as they obtain a college education. Erin Furleigh and Paul Gerlich are students at ISU whose adventure has included...
View ArticleObama's Impossible Immigration Promise
I possess almost mystical patience. I must: I'm an immigration lawyer. Twice I voted for President Obama. I donated to his political campaigns and rejoiced in his inaugurations. Even as other...
View ArticleCheering for the USA From a Detention Center in Florence, Arizona
Through a tinted glass window I saw a group of men watching a World Cup match. Neither Belgium nor the US had scored any goals yet. "Cuidado!" ("Watch out!") yelled one of the men when one of the...
View ArticleUrban Living and the Necessity of the Arts
American cities are thriving in ways unimaginable a generation ago. Once the places people wanted to flee, cities are now where more and more families and individuals want to live, work and play....
View ArticleLet's Take the High Road
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a young Army officer in 1919 when the U.S. Army launched the first Transcontinental Motor Convoy across the United States. The convoy left the Ellipse...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Governor Christie
Dear Governor Christie: I'm writing you in the hope that you will reconsider meeting with Nicole Hockley, a mother whose bright-eyed, beautiful son Dylan was one of the 20 first-graders systematically...
View ArticleU.S. Reaches Major Milestone: 100,000 American Students Study in China
When Secretary Clinton launched the 100,000 Strong initiative in May 2010, many naysayers dismissed the idea of sending 100,000 American students to study in China as little more than lip service -- a...
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Border Backlog Crisis
In all the fulminating going on about the children in the current border "crisis," there is one problem I have yet to hear addressed, by either side in the debate. Mostly, I suspect, because it would...
View ArticleA Meditation on the Unspoken Causes of Child Migration
As is so often true, it is what is not being said about the current migration of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to the U.S. that is the most important. The vast majority of these children,...
View ArticleMeet the New White Nationalist 'David Duke' GOP Candidate
White nationalists from the League of the South -- the premier neo-Confederate group -- are hailing the recent Republican primary victory of Maryland's Michael Peroutka -- who won his party's...
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Where's the Beef in Burger King's 'Proud Whopper' Campaign?
Source: Burger King/Twitter With much fanfare, Burger King claimed to introduce a new burger at this year's San Francisco Pride. The blurb for the YouTube video asks, "What made this burger different?"...
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