Bill Maher Wants to #FireKline
This past Friday, Bill Maher announced Rep John Kline as the winner of his #FlipADistrict Campaign, a contest which Maher created to find the worst representative in the country and oust them from...
View ArticleSlip Sliding Away
"The closer your destination the more you're slip sliding away." Did Simon and Garfunkle ever nail it. ISIS is cruelly and provocatively murdering innocents. Naturally we are appalled and outraged....
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The 'Good' Iraq War? 5 Things to Consider Before We March Into Another...
ISIS is a bad bunch. A deliberately macabre and diabolical death cult. Their shock and horror strategy fuels fear in their subjects, and pride in their growing band of messianic losers, freaks and...
View ArticleThree Years Later, What Has Come of Occupy Wall Street?
This week marks the third anniversary of protesters descending on Wall Street to protest the havoc wrought by the 2008 Financial Meltdown, which had hit all Americans hard, except for the ones who had...
View ArticleGenocide Education: California Senate Bill 1380
In my own family I assumed I'd heard all the tales of heroism or of those who became part of American and global history. With deep regret I missed the story of my brother-in-law's father, Robert...
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History Is Against a Romney Presidency
After losing in 2012 Mitt Romney stated that he is done running for president... but this is 2014 and rumors are swirling. Before too much is made of Mitt Romney chances in 2016, it is important to...
View Article'You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism': On The Economist and Bruce Levenson
Last week, The Economist's controversial review of Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism sparked intense outrage due to the clear racism dripping...
View ArticleHand-In-Hand: Marriage Equality and Gender Equality
"Definitions of marriage are evolving," says Liza Monroy, author of the memoir The Marriage Act (Skullcross, 2014). Jenny, a newly-married friend of mine, recently observed that, "We're all rethinking...
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Cracked!
Saying that there would have been no ISIS if the US hadn't invaded Iraq is little like claiming that Ray Rice wouldn't have gotten into his current difficulties if he and his wife hadn't taken the...
View ArticleHospitals and Clinics Feel the Pain of Medicaid Expansion Politics
Is your state refusing to expand Medicaid? If so, it could be putting your health at risk, whether you'd qualify for Medicaid or not. That's because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - the health reform...
View ArticleOn Secession:
As Scotland lurches toward its historic vote for independence this week, it brings to mind a similar moment, seven score and fourteen years ago, when the American South voted, en file, to secede from...
View ArticleISIS, Oil, and the Economy
For now it looks as though increased domestic oil and gas production has saved the recovery. Were it not for this impressive rise in output, the current mess in Iraq and Syria would likely have driven...
View ArticleHigh-Profile Asbestos Cases Leave Judges Pondering Trust
America's longest-running personal injury litigation arena is approaching full disruption, with high-profile cases and finger-pointing on issues ranging from concealing evidence to judges in the...
View ArticleHearing What They Want: The Illusions of Police Reform
Two important meetings in New York city last week were followed by an important whistleblower story Friday that should serve as the exclamation points on assertions that NYPD is beyond reform. The...
View ArticleWhat if the United States Lost Texas?
There are plenty of things that President Obama has had to worry about since being re-elected president in 2012 -- a continuing malaise about the economy, world crises that pop up with wack-a-mole...
View ArticleWhat a Wonderful Day That Will Be
Another pipeline is leaking and people are being evacuated. More land is being contaminated. Meanwhile, the Scotland Independence vote of course has drilling and extraction at its core. And the money I...
View ArticleE-Cigarettes and Maintenance Therapy: A Smart Public Health Approach
I don't smoke, but I find myself fascinated by and passionate about the debate over e-cigarettes. Why? Because e-cigarettes illustrate how harm reduction approaches to drug policy, particularly...
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Senate Election Overview
It is time to once again take a broad look at the upcoming Senate midterm elections. As always in non-presidential election years, I seldom pay much attention to the House races, for a number of...
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VIDEO: With Senator Warren Watching, Suze Orman Denies, Admits, Rationalizes...
At an event in Washington DC this morning, speaking alongside Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), financial guru Suze Orman at first seemed to deny what is a documented fact: that she teaches a personal...
View ArticleObama Is Wrong That ISIS Is 'Not Islamic'
"We are fighting an ideology, not a regime." - U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast...
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