Republican Caucus Offers Syria Plan
2013-09-10 – Breaking News . . . Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced late this afternoon that the Senate Republican Caucus is offering an alternative plan to break the […]
Tag Archives: Politics
We Are Not at War
2013-09-01 – My mother is 85 years old. She lives 2,000 miles away in an assisted living home in Los Angeles. She is losing her memory. She sometimes gets disoriented. […]
Rogers Park
2013-08-29 – Rogers Park is a sports park. Indian Boundary Park is a strolling park, with paths and a little pond. But Rogers Park is a sports park. The east […]
Anger As a Cultural Value
2013-08-05 – Robert Reich writes about anger in America and chalks it up to social inequality, with a little help from the media and social media. I have no quarrel, […]
Their Side of the Story
2013-08-04 – They say the chatter is like before 9/11. So we should be worried about an attack. So what’s the chatter about? Yeah, I suppose it’s about death […]
Burning Your Draft Card
2013-08-01 – A peculiar campaign by FreedomWorks to oppose the implementation of Obamacare calls on opponents to burn their Obamacare cards. Problem is, as many pundits have pointed out, […]
Heads, I Win
2013-08-01 – Stung by a series of political losses, the Republican leadership has introduced the Currency Reform Act of 2013. “We can’t seem to be able to win even a […]
Unintended Memorial
2013-07-27 – I hadn’t been in New York since before 9/11. That trip was for some sort of business that is long forgotten. What I do remember from that trip […]
Pathway to Citizenship (Part II)
2013-07-18 — Last time I talked about creating a pathway to citizenship for African-Americans that would be comparable to the pathway to citizenship being proposed in the immigration bill […]
Pathway to Citizenship
2013-07-16 — Pending now in Congress is an immigration bill. A big issue in the bill is the so-called “pathway to citizenship.” I am in favor of such a pathway. […]
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