While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility -- a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.
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17 January 2011
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived till he was just 39. He has been dead now longer than he lived.
Sadly, too many who never worked with, or even supported, Dr. King while he was alive and in the middle of the struggle, now...
Sadly, too many who never worked with, or even supported, Dr. King while he was alive and in the middle of the struggle, now...
15 January 2011
Will there be copycats?
Will parents let their children attend political rallies anymore? Will Congress ever come to our corner again?
We witness another impromptu festival of American violence, this one in front...
Will parents let their children attend political rallies anymore? Will Congress ever come to our corner again?
We witness another impromptu festival of American violence, this one in front...
15 January 2011
Fifty years ago this Monday, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a farewell address in which he famously warned of the dangers of influence on our government by the "military industrial complex." Our current Secretary of War, Robert Gates,...
13 January 2011
The Second Amendment supports those of us who would CONTROL guns---and thus prevent the insane slaughter that compromises our security.
James Madison and the Founders of this nation would be enraged to see the Second Amendment...
James Madison and the Founders of this nation would be enraged to see the Second Amendment...
11 January 2011
This year the list of atrocities committed under the guise of representative democracy is extensive, as anyone concerned in analyzing the actions of governments in the West can ascertain. If it was our wish, we could bombard the airwaves...
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