Despite a campaign that crossed two years and several continents, right now it is impossible to grasp the full implications of the election of an African-American to this nation’s highest office. The uninformed and uneducated naysayers, and the fear-sowing right-wing commentators who stoked the fires of hatred and ignorance were wrong: We did know enough [...]
It appears those “liberal” Californians aren’t so liberal. By a current margin of 52% to 48%, Californians voted to overturn their own Supreme Court and amend their constitution to specify that marriage is only between one man and one woman. What does this say about the nature of Californians’ hearts and minds?
Looking at exit poll [...]
With a little luck, and we could use a lot of it right now, four weeks from tonight we will know who will be the next president of these United States. It’s been a long campaign, more than a year, and while, regardless on which horse your money’s riding (assuming you have any left – [...]
It’s 12:53 PM, as I write this, sitting here in my local Starbucks, just around the corner from my home in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. I’m looking out the window, watching the traffic cop on the corner of 43rd Street and 11th Avenue, the traffic cop whom I see regularly in this Starbucks on her break. [...]
America’s Economic Crisis Is Merely A Symptom Of A Greatest Crisis To Come.
The Road To Civil War. Part One.
The House’s failure Monday to pass the historic federal bailout bill is a failure of our government to do its most essential job: protect the people it was elected to represent. This was not democracy in action. This [...]