If only someone had miraculously turned back the clock to the good ol' days of slavery, or at least to the pre-Civil Rights era, everything would have been just fine. No one was complaining back then, not even the poor whites, for they were still far better off than the blacks and the rest of us who had trickled in afterwards.
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I am Ashamed to be an American, Part One
I’m ashamed to be an American, an Italian-American, a Hispanic-American, an African-American, what have you. If there’s got to be an “American” suffix to complete the descriptor of my national identity, then I have to resign myself from now on to wear it as a badge of dishonor; and so should you!
Read More »California Bans Plastic Bags, and Zaps Your Freedom
With the passage of Proposition 67, California became the first state to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. It also requires most stores to charge shoppers 10 cents for either reusable plastic bags or paper bags. The idea is to manipulate people into using cloth totes to carry home their groceries. Hooray for the environment? Maybe.
Read More »Trump Won, Get Over It
To all the college students, celebrities, protesters, and social justice warriors crying over the election, let's get one thing straight: you aren't as special as you think you are. Get over it.
Read More »Party-Neutral Dollar Woes Led to Trump Election
The economic divide exploded into the sunlight with the ascendance of the Tea Party movement, identified more or less with the right wing, and the Occupy movement on the left. The difference between those two phenomena was more cultural than philosophical.
Read More »Can the Arts Thrive Under a Trump Presidency? Writers Weigh in
I’m fortunate enough to interview talented writers and indie filmmakers on a regular basis, so I got in touch with a few of them and asked two basic questions: how they felt about the outcome of the presidential election, and what it meant to them as writers, artists, or patrons of the arts.
Read More »Some 2016 Election Observations
This election has proven Donald Trump’s contention that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support.
Read More »Trump Election: Who’s To Blame? Not Who You Think
If the party system isn't destroyed, and if our citizenry is not given the right to look outside of the far right and the far left to fill the most powerful positions in our government, our entire society is endangered.
Read More »President-Elect Trump — The Morning After
We awake this morning to a new reality: President Elect Trump.
Read More »Why a Write-In Vote for President Is Not a Wasted Vote
Your write-in vote is not just one small step calling for change in this election but a giant leap for redefining democracy in America.
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