A Wild Week for Voting Rights
Just a month before the election, voting rights have been on a wild ride. The Supreme Court began its term by reinstating voting restrictions in Ohio and North Carolina after federal appeals courts put...
View ArticleISIS, the Laws of War, and Combat Lawyers
A thousand combat-loaded paratroopers leapt into the night in a recent exercise jump over Fort Polk, Louisiana, and among them was a slight, 37-year-old woman with a dark brown ponytail and black frame...
View ArticleSupport Our Troops in West Africa!
Too often, American politics lacks a sense of history. Critics of the president's decision to send several thousand military personnel to West Africa to build temporary medical centers and treat Ebola...
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What Would the Last 50 Years Look Like Without Rapidly Growing Inequality?
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn't worry about inequality because the true concern is the reduction of poverty. Conservatives also maintained that higher levels of inequality were...
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Hillary Clinton and the Progressive Pursuit of Perfection
The season of progressive discontent over Hillary's coming 2016 candidacy is upon us. An article in The Hill by Alexandra Jaffe kicked it off. Exposing"secret emails" from progressives on an email...
View ArticleMuslim Liberals Caught in No Man's Land
"Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas." - Sam Harris "That's just a fact." - Bill Maher When the host of Real Time on HBO, Bill Maher, tag-teamed with 'new atheist' Sam Harris, to lead an assault on...
View ArticleHow Many Times Should We Rebuild Gaza?
More than 2,200 people, including more than 500 Palestinian children, lost their lives during the devastating war between Israel and Hamas this summer. About 108,000 people in Gaza are left without a...
View ArticleWhy Was Crawford, Texas Not Politicized Like Chicago Has Been?
Recently, I was sitting down with my friend Angi, and we were talking about how much it bothers us that Chicago is being exploited and politicized all in an effort to somehow get at Obama. That this...
View ArticleWhat About the Girls?
During the most critical period of Jessica's childhood, adults who could have intervened to protect her from abuse let her down over and over. As a child she was sexually abused in her home and ended...
View ArticleWe Need the Humanities As Much As Science to Solve the World's Problems
'On the third day God created Chemical Engineering. On the fourth day God created Constitutional History. And on the fifth day God created Economic Geography'. Except it wasn't quite like that, was it?...
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America Is Better Off Today Than Six Years Ago!
"Ronald Reagan used to ask the question 'are you better off (today) than you were four years ago?'" President Obama told Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes," during his interview that was aired on Sunday,...
View ArticleInformation You Need to Make Up Your Own Mind
"... [A]s far back as the Radio Act of 1927 and continuing with Section 317 of the Communications Act of 1934 there has been an unvarying requirement that all matter broadcast by any station for a...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Maher's Statistics
Bill Maher's polemics about Islam have made a lot of headlines lately. While sitting as a guest on Maher's HBO show Real Time, film star Ben Affleck suggested that Maher was being racist. Maher's...
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Friday Talking Points -- Is There Anybody Out There?
I address this desperate attempt at communication to any remaining survivors in America of the apocalyptic scourge that is Ebola. Is there anybody still out there? Because, according to my television...
View Article'You Must Come Out': How Harvey Milk's Challenge Resonates With Gay...
Harvey Milk said in 1978: Gay brothers and sisters, you must come out. Come out to your parents. I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!...
View ArticleComing Out Against 'Conversion Therapy'
Today, on National Coming Out Day, countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people around the world will find the courage, through one another, to tell the world who they really...
View ArticleThe Fateful Decision: British House of Commons Votes on Palestine
On Monday, the British House of Commons will vote on a resolution recognizing the "State of Palestine." Passage of the motion will not create a state nor will it end the Israeli occupation. A "yes"...
View ArticleGay Marriage Approved! Society Unravels!
The scary signs are everywhere. (If you know where to look...)
View ArticleSAVE SYRIAN KURDS FROM SLAUGHTER IN KOBANI
SAVE SYRIAN KURDS FROM SLAUGHTER IN KOBANI By David L. Phillips ISIS is on the verge of occupying Kobani, the Kurdish city on the Syria-Turkey border. The UN Special Envoy warns that up 700 people,...
View Article'You Must Come Out': How Harvey Milk's Challenge Resonates With Gay...
Harvey Milk said in 1978: Gay brothers and sisters, you must come out. Come out to your parents. I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!...
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