Click on image to make it larger. “It seems as though what is motivating this from the House Republicans is more than debt reduction. They have a vision about what government should and should not do.  They are suspicious about government policy commitments to make sure that seniors have decent health care as they grow [...]

“There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.” ~Harriet Tubman

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.” ~Bill Vaughan

“The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.” ~Noah Webster When you think about the significance of income inequality – one need only look to history.  We know that income inequality leads to political instability and that leads to potential revolutions or [...]

“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like “well I don’t hate black people so I’m not a racist,” but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you’re privileged in ways that you might not even realize because [...]

We have recommended Senator Chuck Hagel for Obama’s nomination to Secretary of Defense HERE; one of the things that I like about Hagel was his willingness to criticize his own party on their foreign policy once it became clear the Iraq war was a debacle.  It’s a sad state of affairs when it becomes controversial to point [...]

“We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Source

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.“ ~Friedrich Nietzsche This couldn’t be more true.

“I remember thinking I’m going to die stuck here in this cage.  I thought I was going to die in that cage. That’s what I saw – an animal cage.“ ~Bradley Manning Bradley Manning is going to get his day in court finally … Reuters has his story HERE: Upon being transferred to Quantico, Virginia, [...]

This quote from University of Michigan professor – Juan Cole – perhaps is the best explanation of how I feel relative to what’s happening to the Palestinian people and their constant state of “statelessness”.  You can find our many writings on Israel HERE. “Statelessness was common in the 1930s in Europe. Franco made millions of [...]