Over the past several years – the Republican party’s solution to America’s education woes can be summed up as school vouchers.  Republicans like to call it “school choice” but it really is just a voucher program.  They like to point to this visual of a poor black student stuck in a troubled public school who [...]

New York’s Finest are at it again.  If you live in New York City … you’re black, you’re male and you’re young – you are guilty.  Congratulations – you win the prize.  Unfortunately – these kids have to deal with being profiled every single day.  They all get lumped in together.  Now – being a [...]

One of the realities of the internet is that it really is a battlefield for public opinion.  Trying to identify truth is such a difficult thing.  What I can absolutely guarantee you and what I think we all know to be true is that there are a lot of paid propagandists.  These people provide talking [...]

Most parents in the U.S. have spent the past few days imagining what it would be like to be the mother or father of one of the 20 schoolchildren murdered on Dec. 14 in Connecticut. Each detail that emerges from that stricken community brings many of us to tears. And of course we think, what if [...]

A few days ago – President Obama presented his plan to avoid taxes for every American going up on January 1st – the Republicans said “it was not a serious offer” because it’s essentially what President Obama ran on.  John Boehner was “flabbergasted” by the offer (source).  So – the Republicans finally came out with [...]

“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, [...]

So far – up to 77 Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis since 11/14/12; 3 Israelis have died.  I am no fan of Hamas, but I like the rest of the world sees what is happening here.  Israel is killing innocent people and inflaming passions in the Arab world all under the pretense of [...]

Today – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Republicans were open to “increased revenue . . . as the byproduct of a growing economy, energized by a simpler, cleaner, fairer tax code, with fewer loopholes, and lower rates for all” to help tackle the deficit but oppose the president’s plan to take “a larger share of what [...]

Our right-wing ideologues are committed to the same policies that produced the Great Recession. Though many American voters have a fuzzy comprehension of the enormity of this economic disaster – or what has been needed to climb back out from the bottom – Republicans will no more admit to the success of the Obama administration [...]

“If the Medicare savings are repealed, and the benefit enhancements are repealed, there’s a direct effect on seniors today.” ~Tricia Neuman, Kaiser Family Foundation Of course – I’ve written about this subject many times and it confounds me.  Of the two plans presented – one by the Romney/Ryan campaign and one by the Obama campaign [...]