| Aug 7, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIn another America — where democracy reigns and government respects freedom of the press, protects privacy, and honors whistleblowers — Bradley Manning would receive a presidential pardon. After campaigning for the presidency last year, I was asked by my supporters to...
| Jul 31, 2013 | Economy / BusinessAl Capone was a bad boy. How bad? He cheated on his income taxes. He went to prison in 1931 for that. Not for the people he gunned down, nor for any of the other gross illegalities the guy committed as a notorious Chicago mobster. Tax evasion landed Capone in the...
| Jul 17, 2013 | Peace / SecurityAre you familiar with “Black Man 101”? Black men never get to graduate from this constantly changing and mandatory course in survival and behavior modification. With the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, the Black Man 101 curriculum has been...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe not-guilty verdict a jury of six women reached in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin was outrageous. Although I’d been following this case since February 26, 2012 — the day George Zimmerman, a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, gunned down the...
| | Peace / SecurityI wasn’t too surprised when do-it-yourself vigilante George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin. The trial took place in Florida, after all. You have to be pretty stupid or reckless or both to be found guilty of murder in Florida. If you...
