I’d never seen cremains before. I never even knew that human ashes are called ‘cremains’ until my wife pointed it out to me. It makes sense when you think about it, though. My cousin Billy pulled the heavy, beautifully crafted wooden box from the trunk of his car, and I asked him to open it. […]
The racial doctrine in Lillian’s community was “separate, but not equal.” The men in her life pondered a cruel theological mystery in 1937 when Joe Louis became Heavyweight Champion of the world. How could God allow such a thing to happen? Black people were considered unworthy and inconsequential. There was a ‘place’ for blacks, and […]
Civil Rights and civil liberties: a discussion that begins and ends with the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a noble, pyrrhic attempt to limit the “tyranny of the national government,” however it says nothing about limiting state’s rights. An individual state’s ability to ignore or refuse to legally implement federal laws is […]
The framers of the Constitution were all white, wealthy landowners who had no problem with the idea of human slavery, or various other forms of oppression. Women and white men who owned no property were excluded from what were supposed to be our “inalienable rights.” Voting and equal protections provided in The Constitution were given […]
I sat down to dinner recently with the family of one of my oldest and dearest friends. His sister came with her husband and their two young sons. Somehow the state of healthcare in America came up. The eldest son, speaking on behalf of his moron father – ex-Navy – stated emphatically that healthcare is […]
No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful. -C. Wright Mills Author David Talbot makes a convincing case for the existence of an extremely powerful, utterly sociopathic […]
Donald Trump not only gets more network TV time than the other Republicans: he gets more time than all the other Republicans and all of the Democrats combined. I have never seen the MSM show such rank political promotion before. Poor, poor Bernie Sanders. The “liberal media” is a myth found only in the land of […]
I read Friendly Fascism back in the early eighties, at the very start of the Reagan era. I decided to pick it up again recently to see how far we’ve come since then, and it’s amazing just how spot on author Bertram Gross was in his cogent analysis of elite power structures in America. Reading […]
Why is network news so awful? Because the main stream media [MSM] is no longer concerned with truth or unbiased journalistic integrity, that’s why. Those qualities have disappeared from contemporary broadcast media since Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. According to the MSM, the only news worth covering is the campaign of Donald Trump. […]
Amending the Constitution is a difficult and complicated process. A two-thirds vote of approval in both Houses is required to formally propose an Amendment, which must then be ratified by ¾ of the States’ legislatures. The only other method of amending the Constitution requires that a national Constitutional Convention be called by Congress at the […]
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