| Jun 14, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyTimothy Leary’s famous catchphrase was “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” I didn’t then. I’m not going to now. Way back in the 1960s, I held that my body was “a temple of God.” Thanks to my Christian beliefs, I wouldn’t...
| Jun 8, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s speech at the America’s Future Now conference went off-script. The Washington Post did a great job telling the story of how the California lawmaker spoke for a half an hour over the garbled jeers of more than a dozen infuriated...
| | Rights / DemocracyI’m spending the time I can spare while not editing OtherWords’ upcoming commentaries at America’s Future Now, which runs through Wednesday. This annual progressive summit fittingly coincides this year with Arkansas’ Democratic primary runoff....
| Jun 7, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyA recent poll found that nearly four out of five Americans don’t trust the government. The survey, done by the Pew Research Center, reported that 78 percent of the people have little or no faith in the government’s ability to solve the problems that beset...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Drug War Has a mission; ‘Bout as smart as Prohibition. The Associated Press recently reported on some exhaustive research, undertaken by the nonprofit International Centre for Science in Drug Policy. These tireless scholars examined 300 studies covering the...
| Jun 1, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyFollowing the uproar about Rand Paul’s views on civil rights–in particular, how he doesn’t think it’s the government’s job to guarantee them–Kentucky state lawmakers have adopted a resolution “declaring any form of...
