The Lowest Common Denominator
The words the lowest common denominator are amongst the cliches we use to demonstrate hatred born of ignorance. As in, sinking to the lowest common denominator to describe an opponent whose barbs...
View ArticleThe Complex but Simple Political Life of Joseph Lieberman
Former United States Senator Joseph Lieberman died Wednesday, reportedly from complications after a fall. Poetically, Senator Lieberman's fall from Democratic grace was almost as deadly to his career....
View ArticlePro-Fetus is Not Pro-Life
In 1965, as part of a thirteen-member panel under the Democratic administration of former President Lyndon Johnson, Jule Sugarman proved what pro-life means. Mr. Sugarman was pro-life in a unique way....
View ArticleThe Patriarch, The Sergeant and The “Fiddler”
When Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959, I was too young, too far away, and too poor to see it. When I reached my teens, I saw the movie version and was...
View ArticleThe Normalization of Political Violence
I was a teenager in the 1960s and lived through some of the most turbulent years of political violence since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. So tumultuous that singer Dion linked them in the...
View ArticleGo Ahead, Just Say It!
Ironically, as a black man, I cannot say it and remain in the public forum. For years, white colleagues in academia and entertainment have pondered: why can you say it and I cannot? Before the great...
View ArticleThe Party of Lincoln?
The Republican party is materially fond of calling themselves the party of Lincoln. They pull on that thread, presumably to stitch together the appearance of their civil rights bona fides, without ever...
View ArticleO.J. is No More
I woke up yesterday morning to the news of Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson's death; O.J. is No More. What should have been the story of the American Dream ended in infamy. For many Americans, yesterday...
View ArticleConspiracy, Justice, and Trump
For centuries, mystery novels have been popular relaxation, fodder for thought, and grist for the mill, enticing the thinker, daydreamer, and skeptic. Today, reminiscent of the famed Bronco car chase...
View ArticleBack to the Future
Science fiction has long dabbled in the idea of time travel, both forward and backward—ask kindly “Doc” Brown about his plutonium-powered DeLorean. In 1978, when Superman flew so fast around the Earth...
View ArticleDonald Trump is More Dangerous When Scared
Conservatives, by definition, are slow to change, if at all. Changes with time and circumstances mark a progressive society. History is its own proof. We once burned so-called witches at the stake,...
View ArticleAre Democrats Obliged to Save Mike Johnson?
Saturday morning, Congress took what, by most accounts, was a simple vote and long overdue. The U.S. allocated 26.4 billion to Israel in three separate funding voting measures, including humanitarian...
View ArticleWhen a Lie Obscures the Truth
For what it is worth, Healing Soul Hypnosis describes mass hypnosis as where a massive part of the populace focuses on a leader(s) or series of events, with their attention focusing on a small point or...
View ArticleWill Protesters Repeat the Mistakes of 1968 in Chicago?
Ironically, those who fail to learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them—this overused and self-explanatory old saying has been repeated in various ways over the years. The Democratic...
View ArticleIt’s Not an Attack on Trump if It’s True
In this world of social media, influencers, and downright bad taste in the cyber world, we need to be careful and not call the truth a slam or an attack. Saturday night was the White House...
View ArticleIt’s TIME: Mein Trumpf
There has been a quiet uproar about the latest Time article interview with Donald Trump, in which he essentially reiterated ‘Mein Kampf.’ He talked about monitoring women’s pregnancies—menstrual...
View ArticleWhenever You Think You Have Seen It All From the GOP
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a part of Joe Biden's infrastructure package, is a lifeline for families struggling with internet bills. While the media is busy chasing after every...
View ArticleUnfortunately, It’s Not Personal, It’s Business
Draft Beer, not boys! Hell no, we won’t go! No Justice, no peace! We Shall Overcome! Protests in the 60s were personal. The Pro-Palestinian protests, as justified as they may be, have become a...
View ArticleWhat is the Secret to How Donald Trump Corrupts People
While following the Donald Trump election campaign finance trial yesterday, I was struck when Stormy Daniels said she did not want to sleep with Mr. Trump. After repeatedly rebuffing Mr. Trump’s...
View ArticleTo Jail or Not to Jail
The most instructive and constructive lesson we should have learned from the pardoning of Richard Nixon is that it wrought Donald Trump. Conventional wisdom is pretty unanimous that Gerald Ford, who...
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