Dissecting Obama's Proposed NSA Reforms
After nine months of ignoring the Snowden revelations, downplaying the the Snowden revelations, not always telling the truth about the Snowden revelations, insulting the Snowden revelations, sending...
View ArticleElla Baker: My Civil Rights Generation's 'Fundi'
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a White mother’s son—we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens....
View ArticleCan Russians' Seizing of Crimea Be Legalized?
For a few months, media and politicians in the U.S. and Western Europe were cheering the populous upheaval in Kiev, triggered by the decision of then-President Victor Yanukovich to abandon negotiations...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors Cloud Medical Marijuana Debate
The whiff of nationwide legalization of medical marijuana is again in the air, no matter that it already has made a complete mockery of almost everyone in the field of medicine associated with it. The...
View ArticleLethal Injection Executions Could Stop Today
Lethal injection as a means of execution could soon meet its own demise on March 28. On Friday March 28, the nation's pharmacists will gather in Orlando, FL, for the Annual Meeting of the American...
View ArticleA Response to the Koch Brothers Claim of Entitlement to Anonymous Political...
An online column by Tom Edsall on the New York Times website (March 18), entitled "In Defense of Anonymous Political Giving," presents the arguments made by the Koch brothers to justify keeping...
View ArticleRandy Mastro Strikes Out
You know that you've failed when a Republican like Joseph Scarborough, host of the MSNBC show Morning Joe, says on his program that Randy Mastro, the so-called "independent" lawyer investigating Gov....
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Friday Talking Points -- Democrats Unveil 2014 Strategy
I spent most of my time (and my columns) this week on reviewing Betty Medsger's new book The Burglary (with both a two-part review of the book and an interview with the author), which meant I wasn't...
View ArticleA History Lesson for the Obama NLRB as it Takes on the NCAA
The National Labor Relations Act, which has just been found to "protect the rights" of college varsity football players to organize a union, grew out of the industrialization of the 19th century....
View ArticleExploring Southern States' Opposition to Obamacare
How do Southern states compare with non-Southern states in their response to the Affordable Care Act? What elements of the decision-making environment help us understand this region's active opposition...
View ArticleKeep People From Voting? It Never Crossed Their Minds! (Right...)
Republicans prefer shutout to turnout...
View ArticleBiases Versus Realities
Western biases are not only transparently self-serving and flat-out wrong, they can also be so annoying. As an example, a few weeks back, the Washington Post featured a long lament by a British...
View ArticleAccelerating Use of Renewable Energy
US energy policy is stuck on reliance on natural gas. Most Americans understand that by the middle of the century most of our energy will have to be supplied by renewables -- wind, water and solar --...
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US-Russian Relations and the International Space Station
The current troubles with Crimea, and the souring of the relations between the United States and Russia, has led to a series of actions by NATO countries sure to drive Russia's political reactions to...
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Battleground Constituents Can't Count on Winning Buffett's Billion Dollar...
If you're like me, your chance to win Warren Buffett's billion-dollar prize for a perfect bracket evaporated almost immediately. Though that chance is gone, it's still worth being optimistic that your...
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Whitewash!
Friday March 28th 2014 Was feeling very ragged this morning. Gastro-Gov has really landed me in it. The so-called investigation is such a whitewash and he's thrown me under the ice cream truck. And...
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5 Million Reasons for Record Deportations
There are five millions reasons that the United States can't seem to fix the insane and inhumane deportation policies that tear families apart and punish hard working immigrants. Protests can get...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week was the homestretch for Obamacare enrollment, with the deadline to sign up without penalty arriving tomorrow. On Thursday, the White House announced that enrollments had exceeded the CBO's...
View ArticleRussia, Ukraine and American Myopia
The Russian invasion of Crimea and continuing tension between Russia and Ukraine have not only created difficult challenges for U.S. policymakers, but have forced many to rethink broader questions of...
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