| Sep 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyAs America’s kids get used to school again, American education spending and policies are under attack. Tea party-backed candidates around the country, particularly in the West, are dredging up the old GOP idea to shut down the Department of Education. Quick...
| | Rights / DemocracyIncreasingly we live in a world–alas–of deliberate misrepresentation and mischaracterization. Or you could call them lies. Thank God for mainstream, fair-minded journalists like myself, who care for little but truth, justice, and setting the record...
| Aug 30, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyAcross the United States, Labor Day marks the end of summer, and a day off from the job for the lucky ones. We often forget that this holiday originated from strife, not leisure. Labor Day became a national holiday to celebrate America’s workers only because...
| | Rights / DemocracyDid you see those pictures of Michelle Obama sashaying around Europe–Spain I think it was–and staying at that fancy hotel? I mean, who does she think she is, Nancy Reagan? Isn’t she kind of getting ahead of herself, putting on airs? Whoa! Wait a...
| | Rights / DemocracyOh, please, Santa Claus, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich. The Newt says he is planning to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012, and all I can say is: “Yes!” The corrupt former House speaker was forced...
| | Rights / DemocracyMade top sergeant,Earned my way;Till they found outI was gay. The glacial progress toward equality for gay Americans offers some revealing looks at our society. One is the weakening hold of religion, Roman Catholicism in particular. Until recently, church bias against...
