Presumed Unworthy
On August 9, 2014, a black teenager named Michael Brown was shot to death in broad daylight by a police officer in Ferguson, Mississippi. His dead body lay uncovered in the street for four hours...
View ArticleDoes the Second Amendment Only Apply to White People?
After learning that Los Angeles police shot and killed Ezell Ford Monday night, I spent a good deal of time Tuesday night and Wednesday morning trying to find out if the victim was unarmed. Ford was a...
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Jesus Drove Usurers From The Temple. We Allow 500-percent Interest Payday...
First, let's start with the good (if you can really call it that) news: A trail of money that began with triple-digit loans to troubled New Yorkers and wound through companies owned by a former...
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Syria's Fallout: Rise of Islamic State Jihadists
President Barak Obama's decision to launch air strikes against the Islamic State, the jihadist group that controls a large swath of Syria and Iraq, is fraught with pitfalls. Even if it succeeds in...
View ArticleDoing Away With 'Queuillism'
Henri Queuille was not a politician with a poor record. Medical doctor, deputy for the Corrèze Department, resistance fighter and anti-Gaullist, served five times as Minister, especially as Minister of...
View ArticleIsis Crisis: Obama's Flawed Strategy, Hillary's Farfetched Excuse
Well, isn't that reassuring? President Barack Obama and his famous former secretary of state, once and probably future presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, made nice Wednesday night at a chi chi...
View ArticleAre the Contours of a Hillary Doctrine Emerging in Iraq?
There's an awful lot of handwringing going on in Washington. With each passing day, there seems to be a new excuse for why America can't work by, with, and through our friends and international...
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After Bundy, Ranchers Continue to Bully Federal Government Without Consequence
After years of landscape scale drought in Nevada, irrational grazing practices continue. While the Bureau of Land Management is required by federal law to protect wildlife habitat on our public lands,...
View ArticleUkraine Exposes Globalism's Flawed Premise
The crisis in Ukraine has done more than expose weaknesses in regional security and international air safety arrangements. It has exposed fundamental flaws in the bedrock assumptions underlying that...
View ArticleAmerican Family Values? Think Immigrant Women Leaders
Unfair Use of a Fair Topic Before coming to America some 20 years ago, I couldn't understand why some media make such a big deal about "family values." But the Clinton-era events enlightened me enough...
View ArticleSubsidies for Big Business: Why Are We Doing This Again?
One area where a lot of us populist progressives agree with at least the rhetoric of the Tea Party is the issue of subsidies to big business. Case in point: the Export-Import Bank. A recent Chicago...
View ArticleThe Ferguson Solution
I saw images of Ferguson last night carried across televisions, newspapers and the Internet, and it broke my heart. This all began when an unarmed, black teenager was gunned down by a police officer in...
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America, Israel, Prophets and Profit
The American dream, born of the high ideals of democracy and separation of church and state, has struggled to live up to its own principles. Israel, a prophesied "Return to the Holy Land" and democracy...
View ArticleHistoric Vote Brings Comprehensive Transgender Health Care to Oregon's...
The Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC), which is charged with overseeing the prioritized list of services in Oregon's Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan, voted today to approve the coverage...
View ArticleThe Islamic State Is 'Barbaric,' but What About the U.S. and Israel?
An Aug. 12 headline from Fox News read "Islamic State's shocking barbarity prompts call for world to act." The sub-heading of the article went on to claim that this "fanatical Islamic group" uses...
View ArticleCatching Liars
From a distance of 20 feet, without your knowledge or consent, the surveillance cameras, microphones and physiological sensors apply computer algorithms to process your gait, facial expression,...
View ArticleAn Exit Strategy for Ferguson
Whoever, except in cases and undercircumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to...
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If Alan Gross Dies in Cuba... Who Is Responsible?
Raul Castro, Barack Obama, Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Mario Diaz-Balart or Joe Garcia? All of the above!!!! But especially the last six. The government...
View ArticleInner-City 'Barbarians'? Calling Out Racism on the Airwaves
Politics isn't always pretty. In fact, it can get downright nasty. When you work on issues that directly affect people's lives, it's easy for passion to overcome politeness. That said, there are some...
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