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’I would call these cuts obscene’
Was visiting this weekend with family from North Carolina and am floored by the state of the state. My cousin-daughter teachers told of a disregard for public school educators that is so incredulous...
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Walk the walk, talk the talk.
Now here’s a U.S. politician we can all be proud to say we elected. They say history will improve the image he had during a stormy time in office. His history has arrived.Filed under: basic human...
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The Definition of Privilege
http://youtu.be/a-BodYLppLk?t=20s It’s important that there is a generation thinking and understanding empathy. Is there a more direct route to peace?Filed under: basic human rights, Human Rights...
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Obamacare=Apartheid?
Obamacare=Apartheid? I HAD to quote a friend’s FB comment on this article. He says it all: “One should always think carefully when comparing ANYTHING to slavery, racism, Nazi Germany, or, apartheid....
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Remembering what we learned in kindergarten is a good resolution
Robert Fulghmun’s classic book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, stands the test of time and should be required reading for every politician and business major, for a start. It’s a...
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The Content of Our Country’s Character Still a Shame…read it & weep
Thanks to usconstitution.net for the transcript taken from a recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the...
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Less than 60 yrs ago this was written. Too little has changed.
Inez Jessie Baskin Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. Thank you to Slate, again. Filed under: Amendments, basic human rights, Bible, Christianity, Civil...
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Too much gov’t? Then for heaven’s sake, get out of my uterus.
As we reflect on all of the important issues surrounding us ― from climate change and Black Widow terrorists to Iran ― can we agree this was a long-awaited decision and move forward? Those who are...
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Racism Embarrasses Me
I recently saw Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Forest Whitaker plays a character based on Eugene Allen, a House Butler who served at the White House for over 30 years and 8 presidents from the Truman through...
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Learning to Elect to Care
Getting people to even consider changing the way they think about issues affecting others’ daily lives despite facts, common sense and logic is asking a lot. My colleague and I who created Elect2Care...
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It’s Too Easy to Hate
Salon magazine published a sadly insightful article on the psychology of hate, a paragraph pasted below and the link below that. It applies, unfortunately, to way too many issues affecting our every...
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This needs your email signature…quickly!
A banner will be unveiled at the Supreme Court on March 25, and it needs your name and support. If you click on the link and scroll down, you’ll see where to add endorsement . Pro-choice, pro-life,...
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Mother Jones Shoots Down 10 Pro-Gun Myths
This article was written in 2013 by Dave Gilson at Mother Jones. It’s fascinating, frustrating, illuminating, still relevant and another way to present important facts often overlooked–purposefully or...
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Wars/Detainees/18-yrs. old
I honestly don’t know what the “right” would be doing if President Obama weren’t president. Their aim clearly is to denounce anything he promotes or does. Imagine the work that could get done if our...
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Quiet, please, Mr. Cheney
Charles M. Blow wrote a great op-ed in the June 18 NY Times about the gall of Dick Cheney in dissing the president’s handling of Iraq, included in the link below. He points out the short memories of...
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Supreme Court Reels Right, Women Left Out
It’s almost impossible to process the Supreme Court’s decision allowing certain corporations to impose its religious beliefs on health care and, therefore, not cover the cost of birth control as...
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How? Why?
I’ve been observing the Ferguson, MO Michael Brown shooting aftermath from a distance and without paying too much attention. It seemed pretty clear that the police shot an unarmed person. It seemed...
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Continuing to do the Wrong Thing!
I seriously wonder if the police in Ferguson aren’t quite possibly all trying to live up to the late Richard J Daley’s famous gaffe during the 1968 Democratic Convention: “The police are not here to...
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Chief’s 911 call released: Gun in bed went off accidentally, twice?
We’ll probably never know the truth…… Here’s another fascinating story. A small-town Georgia police chief contacts 911 at 4 a.m. on January 1 to say his wife is shot. When the operator asks if he...
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Our Own ISIS Like Brutality Is Not That Long Ago
This story makes me realize that as horrible as ISIS is, we have a past that is not so different. In the US, it was race based, more than religious based. Although religion was often used to justify...
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