No Guns Allowed-When the Personal Amplifies the Principle
Click here for the audio podcast version of this article. When Starbucks requested gun owners to leave their weapons elsewhere, it made headlines. The impact...
Mississippi Tea Party: Meaningful Numbers of Black People Could Never Vote Republican
Click HERE for the audio podcast version of this article. The Black Republican section of the GOP website is a wonderful place to visit. It is part...
Defense of Marriage Act, Limited Government, and Reduction to the Absurd
It can sound kind of silly. It's supposed to. That's the essence of a reductio ad absurdum argument, the bottom of a slippery slope. The...
Centrists: Misjudging the Economy and the Public Since 2008
That was not an exceptional view in 2009, the year America avoided an economic depression. About a third of the Democratic part of the United...
On Independence Day America Still a Work In Progress
The movie Gladiator must have lacked for a suitable ending. The gasping General orders a Senator to be reinstated and the Senate to be restored to its...
Sarah Palin and the Strange Case of the Missing IRS Emails
In spite of the obviously suspicious disappearance of key documentation, it isn't hard to find partisan defenders. A brief internet search will find thousands of...
Ben Franklin Is Not A Tea Party Candidate
I never thought of him as a comedian until I came across a bit of history a few months ago. Then, a Tea Party candidate...
Republicans Hunting Witches in Witch-Free White House
Disagree with the President as many of my friends do, you kind of have to admit, in more honest moments, that this President is among...
Does Hillary Clinton Know the Lesser Hardships of Life?
As George W. Bush took office, social activist Barbara Ehrenreich finished up an experiment. She left her life, went undercover, and took a series of...
Iraq Civil War Stems From Centuries of Hatred
It was, perhaps, naive to believe a mere change in a national government would signal an end to hundreds of years of unreasoning hostility. The...
The Case of Senator John McCain’s Strange Village Visit
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, decided to take a trip through the Crimea in the late 1700s. The area had been taken from the Ottoman...
Jim Crow Is Alive and Well In Mississippi
In Mississippi, Republicans put into effect some of the harshest voting restrictions since Jim Crow days. There has never been a problem of voters voting...
Perverse Incentives at VA to Violate Veteran’s Rights
Eric Shinseki once discussed his management technique, comparing it to combat, where you never have enough information or resources."Sometimes you just gotta launch, and fight your...
The Work of Urban Youth-A Podcast
If we go to prisons, we will find a higher percentage of residents who might be called "urban." If we go through Job Corps statistics...