| Nov 14, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyYou can tell politicians are getting nervous. They’re playing the “In God We Trust” card again. You’d think that card’s all but worn out — Congress did, after all, make the slogan the nation’s official motto in 1956 —...
| Nov 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe Obama administration, which is currently deporting a record 400,000 people each year, took a minor step to protect immigrants. Now many Republicans are accusing him of treason. “Potential illegal immigrants may surge across the border making it difficult for...
| | Rights / DemocracyIt seems like new reports of scandalous cheating schemes or other wrongdoing at public schools emerge every week. From New York City to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the problem of school corruption is widespread. What can be done? There’s no surefire solution. Teachers and...
| Oct 31, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIf you turn on your local evening news, you may not notice anything out of the ordinary. But if you change the channel, you’ll think you’ve entered a parallel universe. The same reporter may appear on three supposedly independent stations, reading the same...
| | Rights / DemocracyI was out of the country for a couple of weeks and came back to be greeted by yet another Republican presidential debate. I was so pleased. I hadn’t realized how much I missed that goofy bunch of crazy kids. I’ve grown especially fond of Ron Paul, the...
| | Rights / DemocracyJails presentFor all to see,HumanInhumanity. The United States has more citizens behind bars, per capita, than any other nation. No, this quirk doesn’t reflect an especially felonious gene in our national DNA. Rather, it exposes embarrassing shortfalls in our...
