Obama Starts To Turn Tide Against Lobby's Sanctions Bill
It's the weekend and the tide may have turned President Obama's way in his battle to prevent Congress from enacting new Iran sanctions, sanctions that would almost surely kill the agreement the P5+1...
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The March to Equality in Red States
In recent weeks, federal courts in Utah and Oklahoma have ruled that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. These rulings -- in states that have long been regarded as likely to be among...
View ArticleWhen Will Gov. Brown Wage a War on Poverty?
California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his new budget last week, almost 50 years to the day after the nation's highest officials undertook a decidedly ambitious effort to radically reduce inequality in...
View ArticleMyths That Are Impediments to Peace
In a meeting I had this week with a congressional candidate, I was reminded of the power of the myths that define conventional wisdom about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the challenge they pose...
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2014 Democratic Agenda: Protecting the 47 Percent
Politicians occasionally tell the truth. That happened in September of 2012, when Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney lambasted the "47 percent of the people who will vote for the president...
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If John Bolton Reaches Out to You by Email, Beware
Much to my surprise a few days ago, I received an invitation from Ambassador John Bolton to hook up with him on LinkedIn. While I have expressed admiration for as well as concerns about the public...
View ArticleDownside for Democrats in the Christie Scandal?
Two years is the equivalent of twenty years in political time, but there have been some recent political twists and turns that may profoundly affect the 2016 presidential election. The first and most...
View ArticleCampbell Brown's Ridiculous Attack on Teacher Unions
Today's ridiculous attack on teacher unions is one that accuses them of supporting sexual predators in schools. Let's see if we can figure out what's behind it. In a Wall Street Journal hit-piece,...
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Peace: We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Isaac Newton, the great physicist and astronomer, said, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." And so it is with us, and our quest for peace. When I was a child, I was...
View ArticleChristie, The Bridge and Corruption: Full Circle New Jersey Hustle?
"What did he know and when did he know it?" has apparently now taken second place to "Why did they do it?" For sure there was no bona fide "traffic study." All else is inference. While the leading...
View ArticleToo Poor for Health Care, Too Rich for Medicaid
"Health care, bitches!" That's what I remember seeing on my Facebook news feed around two years ago when it was finally announced that, at some point in the not so distant future, this country was...
View ArticleToday We Would Root for Goliath
It's puzzling, if not downright bizarre, why more Americans don't root for the underdog. Maybe it was just self-serving, textbook propaganda taught to our school children, but rooting for the "little...
View ArticleThe Folly of New Iran Sanctions
While the momentum seems to have stalled, the movement in the United States Senate this week to pass a bill raising new sanctions on Iran threatened to undermine the negotiations for a long-term,...
View ArticleEconomic Inequality: The Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor
President Obama, in a speech in December 2013, called income inequality a bigger threat to the United States economy than the federal budget deficit, which has been shrinking. Decrying a "deficit of...
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The Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Prescription for a Healthy...
Image courtesy of Vivien Feyer* Dr. Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the "Beloved Community." King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and...
View ArticleA Whistleblower's Wish for Edward Snowden
Whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world with his revelations of the NSA's worldwide surveillance programs. I hope he shocks it once again by returning to the United State to stand trial for the...
View Article2014 Warning to Dems
Midterm elections are won by the party that turns out its base and lost by the party that does not. Democrats have an inherent disadvantage in midterm elections because of a historically lower turnout...
View ArticleTrusting Chris Christie
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie could never get elected United States president because it is simply a bridge too far for him. There was never a way he could outflank conservative Republicans to...
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