[This is a re-post of a column I did for the Daily Lobo newspaper at UNM, back in 2012 or 2013. I posted it to my blog in January, 2015…sadly, it’s still relevant today] “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged […]
[Here is a re-post from 2016…] Martin Luther King, Jr.’s heartbreaking 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a classic rhetorical response to social injustice and to those who seek to perpetuate injustice either by ignorance, complacency, or tacit approval. MLK eloquently calls out the clergymen in Alabama who condemned him as an “extremist” for […]
As Americans, we have been taught to believe in the historical myth of The Alamo, rather than the reality. Few of us are aware that the rebels who died defending The Alamo weren’t the legendary folk heroes we’ve been led to believe. They were defending the Alamo from the Mexican army, not for any noble […]
I woke up on January 6th, 2021 and told my wife it was going to be a pivotal day in US History…I kind of expected something but didn’t know what. For some reason I was compelled to watch tRump’s entire speech that morning. That was the first time I actually saw him speak more than […]
Everyone in DC had their panties in a bunch this week because for the first time EVER, the “president” vetoed the annual re-installment of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). In a show of incredible bi-partisanship considering the divisive state of Umerkin politics, the Senate overwhelmingly over-ride Trump’s veto over 2 minor provisions of the […]
Growing up in Southern California, the xmas holidays were always a pretty depressing time for me because we never got any snow and we never got to have a ‘white Christmas.’ December in Riverside isn’t that much different from June; the weather was pretty much the same ole thing all year long; year after year… […]
It is clear that tRump never plans to concede. This is the most likely scenario: once the election is certified in favor of Joe Biden, tRump will claim the election was stolen; he will then announce his candidacy for 2024, and his minions will be unleashed upon the citizenry. tRump will spend the next four […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is very proud of Comrade tRump. tRump has been a known Russian asset since at least the early 90s, and ever since then he has – wittingly or unwittingly – been the cornerstone of Putin’s most successful intelligence operation ever. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Even though he clearly lost the election, Comrade tRump […]
“President” Trump has been busy implementing The Agenda in several important ways: 1) he has given huge tax cuts to the rich and corporations; 2) he has rolled back environmental regulations; 3) he’s stacked an ultra-conservative Supreme Court; 4) he did everything he could to destroy the health care system; 5) he rolled back regulations […]
Th 2020 presidential election has given the world quite an insight into US “democracy” and all of its many defects. Any system which allows the loser to be the winner is seriously flawed. There is an immediate need for an independent electoral commission to prevent the anti-democratic antics we are currently seeing, including voter suppression; […]
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