Why is infrastructure renewal NOT the number one priority on every presidential candidate's mind?
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Tennessee’s Troubling Move to Name the Bible as the State’s Official Book
Tennessee trying to name The Bible as the state's official book is the latest attempt to insert religion into government and challenge the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause.
Read More »Black Lives Matter: A Proposed Amnesty Program for Dirty Cops
As a good faith gesture of conciliation to the black community, police departments around the nation should create South African style reconciliation commissions and grant amnesty to members of their departments who confess to wrongdoing that has resulted in the death or conviction of an innocent black man.
Read More »Taxpayer Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Scam IRS Phone Calls
Be wary of phone calls from the U.S. Treasury Department or IRS threatening legal action. It's likely someone's trying to scam you. Big time.
Read More »Overcoming Our Personal Egypt(s) on Passover
Even here in the 21st Century, we all have our own Egypts--our own "narrows" from which to be redeemed, just as the Israelites were millennia ago.
Read More »Mars-One: Would You Sign-On For A One-Way Trip to Mars?
Dying is going to happen whether you are here or on Mars. I don’t see myself as dying on Mars; I see myself as living on Mars.
Read More »Joan Baez Honored by Library of Congress and Amnesty International
The human rights organization will honor the folk singer along with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at a ceremony in Berlin in May.
Read More »Are We Any Closer to Ending World Hunger, 15 Years After UN’s Millennium Development Goals?
Although the UN vowed in 2000 to take on this challenge, lofty goals established more than a decade ago have not yet been met, and nonprofit organizations continue to struggle to meet demand.
Read More »Interview: Grace Mineta, the Texan in Tokyo (‘My Japanese Husband Thinks I’m Crazy’)
The Texan behind the popular 'Texan in Tokyo' blog and author of 'My Japanse Husband Thinks I'm Crazy' talks about how she got started, and the costs of 'making it big.'
Read More »Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Giveaway: ‘Owsley and Me: My LSD Family’ Memoir by Rhoney Gissen Stanley
Stanley's memoir chronicles her life working in the Acid King's lab, and as the third angle in a love triangle, and later under the care of the Grateful Dead.
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