| Oct 31, 2011 | 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...
| Oct 24, 2011 | Peace / SecurityLike any good liberal I thought that Muammar Gaddafi, after being captured by rebel forces, should have been read his Miranda rights and then taken directly to jail to await trial by a jury of his peers. After being indicted, of course. As a human being, however, I...
| | Food / FarmingIf you worry that American corporations have lost the innovative, can-do edge necessary to compete in today’s global economy, you need to spend some time with Dr Pepper. I don’t mean a shrink, but the soft-drink. It’s a brand that, let’s face...
| | Rights / DemocracyTime to offer Heartfelt thanks; To those bold youth Who fight the banks. America needs a new phenomenon every once in a while. Now it has one: Occupy Wall Street. At first glance it doesn’t look like much. The mode of dress at Liberty Plaza (the patch of green...
| Oct 17, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s been a little more than 50 years since I first walked into the Des Moines Register newsroom to begin a career in journalism. It was a beat-up scruffy place filled with beat-up scruffy people, almost all men. They worked in a big room lined with gray steel...
