| Aug 2, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWe live in grim times, which is why you have to take your laughs where you can get them. For example, in Washington, where Republican congresspeople keep talking about their concern for their grandchildren as an excuse for voting against…well, practically...
| | Rights / DemocracyCongressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no way,” “forget about it,” “nothing doing,”...
| | Rights / DemocracyLock the prisons, Toss the key; Just don’t send The bill to me. Prison numbers are tough to pin down. There is the federal system, there are 50 state systems, and no one is just sure how many local jails or military brigs. All told, professionals estimate that...
| Jul 26, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyOn Mother’s Day, three months before Arizona’s draconian new immigration law was to go into effect, a mother of two addressed a vigil outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. The woman had been intercepted, without papers,...
| | Rights / DemocracyJohn Wooden was a legend. That’s a word that’s thrown around a lot these days, particularly in the realm of sports. Most sports legends aren’t. But he was. Wooden died at the age of 99 in June, 35 years after retiring as the most successful (and many...
| | Rights / DemocracyWay to go, Al! At last, there’s a Democrat in the Senate who’s acting like a real Democrat in the FDR mold, unafraid and unabashed to go right at the corporate powers who dominate our economy, environment, media, politics, and government. Al Franken, the...
