Geometry of Equality
I grew up in Washington, D.C., descended from Nanticoke Indians who originally inhabited the Chesapeake region known as the *Eastern Shore. These Nanticoke...
Justice Equals Full Inclusion
June 19, 1865, enslaved Black communities in Texas finally
received the news that they were free — two and a half years
after the Emancipation...
Confederate Currency for Modern Slavery
In the words of VoteVets.org:
The Marines have officially ordered the removal of all Confederate symbols and flags in public areas.
Today,...
George Floyd vs. the American Dream
Preface
"The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a federal law governing the ability of the president of the United States to deploy military troops within...
COVID-19 Madness
All 50 states are opening up their COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in some degree and kind, using a combination of state and county interpretation of the...
Rotten Wood Beneath
On top of Trump and ilk’s national – or lack thereof – COVID-19 response, we have this senseless inhumanity described in a Washington Post story. This...
Shades of Belief
Beliefs, like shadows, are shapes produced by a body coming between rays of light. Is that body conjecture, indirection, misdirection, or the entrainment...
"Plandemic"
Regarding the YouTube video, “Plandemic” (*now removed from YouTube and Facebook):
The Plandemic neologism is being pushed by a site that has two...
Joe Biden on Coronavirus
My fellow Americans: Today, across the nation, many of us are feeling anxious about the rapid spread of COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, and the threat...
The Fishbowl of Triump Loyalty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/29/mirandas-rebellion/?arc404=true
Doomsday Clock
Defying all logic, the human race has not yet become extinct. Considering its penchant for self-destructive behavior, the human species would seem to...
On Tyranny
1. The democratic vision of the United States is not indomitable. By examining how European democracies became fascist or communist, we can potentially...
Moscow Mitch
(Image Source: Amy McGrath for Senate)
Amy M. McGrath, former Marine fighter pilot and political candidate. She was the first female Marine Corps pilot...
Protect Our Public Forests
Source: The Indigenous Environmental Network, PO Box 485, Bemidji, MN 56619
http://www.ienearth.org/
My Comment:
U.S. Forest...
"Deep State" Inflection Point
The "Deep State” descriptor is an attempt to deflect attention away from Trump’s Deep Despotic State.
Cudos to Chuck Park in his admitted better...
Out to Sea Too Long
"Trump’s tweets on Sunday morning [July 14, 2019] were sent before he headed to his golf club in Sterling, Va.” [Washington Post]:
"So interesting...
Trump Stain
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Today, I flew the colors (American flag and the Marine Corps flag) at my home, to celebrate...
Roundup from the Ground up
The Dept. of Health & Human Services should stand up for Americans and not let their health assessment on the weed killer Roundup – whose truth is damning...
Jordan Cove Fracked Gas Project
Where to begin… Let’s see: The Trump administration is continuing its war on the environment via the auspices of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....
Cyber Warfare
From Russia with Love (James Bond spy novel by English author Ian Fleming) To Russia with Love (The U.S. Intelligence Community): Protecting us from...
The Deep State
https://youtu.be/bctQymH8JHw
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America Trumped
AMERICA TRUMPED
SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION
Elucidating right-wing authoritarianism
In his book, Conservatives Without Conscience,...
An Alzheimer's Primer
* Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's and other dementias.My sister after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease succumbed to...
Unlikely Vet Unity
WAR POWERS UNITE TWO VETERAN GROUPS ON POLICY
LEFT AND RIGHT FIND A MIDDLE GROUND OF RARE UNITY
Walnut
Walls have a dual purpose: To wall things in and to wall things out. In the Donald Trump and supporter world, this means walling out facts, walling in...
Trump – Character Fail
Abe had it right. Donald Trump seized, and I do mean “seized,” as in criminally stole the presidency; enabled and abetted by a host of criminal players,...
Monkey Business
So Howard Schultz prefers that the “moniker” of billionaire be transmuted to descriptors of "people of means" and "people of wealth.” He's suggesting...
Year of the Woman and Criminal President
It’s so odd to me this chorus of returning male down-with-the-old guard, Clinton-equals-Trump, take-no-prisoners revolutionaries calling for Biden to...
Netflix vs. MBS
1HuffPost is outraged at Netflix honoring Saudi Arabia’s right to interpret and implement their own laws. Notwithstanding that Crown Prince Mohammed...
Bernie's Eyes on the Prize
Huffington Post
Bernie Sanders Eyes ‘Bigger’ 2020 Presidential Run Despite Some Warning Signs
The Vermont senator has indicated he would step...
Settlers and the Great Unsettling
A friend of mine posted a Facebook comment to a 1Washington Post article that I had posted a link to, entitled
"Mississippi’s first black senator...
The Past of Present
As a Vietnam veteran, I know a little bit about war. I’m not guilt-ridden about my service, or the fact that I lethally vied with my counterpart in that...
RBG
A must see documentary for all ages, but especially millennials.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s contribution to justice and equality for
which we all...
Social What?
Despite the hyperbolic title of this piece, It does illustrate the rubber band stretching of the democratic party.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-establishment-is-beating-back-the-progressive-revolution-bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-want-to-turn-the-tide_us_5b53722fe4b0de86f48d95a3
Arrested Development
Carl Hitchens, Staff Writer
Ernest Hemingway in the “The Sun Also Rises” – speaking through character Harvey Stone – tells character Robert Cohn...
Blessings of Liberty
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN —
These trailblazers would fly 15,500 combat sorties in WWII and earn more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.”
Excerpted...
Mother Love
If any of you listened in to Chris Hayes – (MSNBC) interview last night (5/5/18) with Victoria Toensing, a partner of the laughable husband-wife (Joseph...
Gyroscope
THE AXIS OF TRUTH
1“Context is the great interpreter for gleaning truth from fact, but what range of circumstantial facts is sufficient to translate...
NDRC
National Democratic Redistricting Committee
THE VOTE: The price of freedom is free elections. One of the most critical fights to abolish the rigged...
I Have a Dream
Today is the 54 fourth anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech.
“I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the of today...
The Branding of Revolution
Brands draw fans but do they deliver the truth?
1) a fundamental change in political organization; especially: the overthrow or renunciation of...
Obsessed and Dangerous
In a Washington Journal article, August 9, 2017, Colin Taylor, commenting on a Buzzfeed interview with six European
diplomats, alleges a consensus...
Power and Authority
How did we get here? In the din of noise eating up the daily news cycle, the how is drowned out in the avalanche of sophistry promulgated by head shakers...
Trumpeting America
Both my cousin and a very good friend of mine brought to my attention 1Kathleen Parker’s opinion piece in the Washington Post (Feb. 10, 2017), entitled...
Two Shadows Divide the Nation
G.I. Generation: 1900 – 1924 [Great Depression, World War II ]
Silent Generation: 1925 – 1941 [World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War]
Baby...
A Time for Elders
When you lead from behind you don't lead; you run to catch up. "Leaders" on the left donned their thespian get up and spoke their lines for dramatic...
Psychic to Myopic
Over the years Amy Goodman and Democracy Now have been an important voice for liberal-progressive views, reporting on stories often not covered by mainstream...