Rebuilding My Life after My Unemployment Benefits Ended
Since I lost my job, I have been trying to make positive changes in my life. I have continued writing for American Fitness Magazine. I have written two children's books and am looking for a publisher...
View ArticleQ & A: Minors Crossing The Border Don't Always Get Lawyers
By: Isabella Ordaz and Adriana Champagne A sudden increase in undocumented children attempting to cross the U.S. border has drawn the attention of mainstream media, and remains controversial. Children...
View ArticleGaza and Israel--Sorting It Out
The Israeli carnage in Gaza has been appalling and distressing for me. The Netanyahu government and program do not represent me as a progressive, left-leaning Jew who has supported Israel strongly....
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The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
One of the most unnoticed labor trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to...
View ArticlePray to Jesus -- Or Else
I applaud those who retain the strength to fight the never-ending battle against ignorance, intolerance and persistent persecution of rationalists. The latest nonsense comes from Georgia, a state that...
View ArticleWelcome to Fergustan
Occasionally I look at online videos even as I understand that the mirror neurons of my brain will absorb energies from watching it that are not necessarily good for me. This happens most often when...
View ArticleStrong Programs, Strong Mentors, and Strong Mindsets
We know the commonly repeated claim that there are more Black men in prison than in college isn’t true—but in 2011 Black men accounted for fewer than 6 percent of undergraduate students and 4 percent...
View ArticleThe Shock of Ferguson: I Grew Up in a Country Where Most Cops Don't Even Have...
I've lived in America for nine years now, and one of the most important survival skills I've learned is to always check my rearview mirror for cop cars. I have learned to fear the cops. You see, I grew...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Not Doing Stupid Sh*t in Iraq
Keeping to his credo of "don't do stupid sh*t," President Barack Obama sent in fighter planes to prevent ISIS from its genocidal assault on fleeing Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq, while also making...
View ArticleDon't Blame Iran for Middle East Turmoil
Amid bloodshed and chaos caused by Israel's latest military attacks on Gaza, the usual anti-Iran crowd has been hard at work to partly blame that country for the carnage. Some analysts have claimed...
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Friday Talking Points -- Dog Days
Welcome to the "Dog Days" of summer, at the height of the political Silly Season. This year, one dog did indeed have his day in August, as 7-year-old "Duke" just won a rather bizarre election to become...
View ArticleThoughts on National Airborne Day
Not that many will notice it, with all the domestic and international turbulence dominating the news right now, but Saturday, Aug. 16, marks an opportunity for all Americans to pause for a moment and...
View ArticleA Dear Jon (Voight) Letter About Gaza and the History of the...
Dear Jon Voight, We write to you as admirers of your work for many years. We are also professors of modern Middle Eastern studies, specializing on the history and contemporary realities of Israel,...
View ArticleObama's Iraq Policy: Passing the First Hurdle
With Nouri al-Maliki agreeing to step aside in favor of Haider al-Abadi, Iraq may have passed its first hurdle on the way to forming the kind of government that will be needed to defeat the Islamic...
View ArticleHow Do We Torture? Let Them Count the Ways...
That Senate report on CIA interrogation techniques was supposed to be released by now. But some people would rather keep the details to themselves.
View Article'Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired of'
On August 5, 2014 the displaced persons of El Salam camp in South Darfur were brutally assaulted by military and security forces of the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in...
View ArticleWhose Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Is More Important?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... I am sure that all of you who have been through political science and philosophy in universities have discussed these ad nauseam. These are concepts...
View ArticleStop and Frisk Never Stopped
While the nation reels from the shooting death of Michael Brown and the war-zone response by the Missouri police, and while New York City reels from our own recent police homicide -- the suffocation of...
View ArticleMonsters at the End of a War
August 15 was the end of World War II in Asia, 69 years ago, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I could not find a single reference to the bombings, or to the end of the war...
View ArticleLegal 'Pussyrioting' Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder
Russia's use of "extremism" laws to prosecute nonviolent dissent is best known through Pussy Riot's Dance Seen Around The World in Moscow's main Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which yielded some of its...
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