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Ghettoside
We are all thinking this January 2015 about relationship between the minority – in particular, black – communities and the police. Ghettoside by Los Angeles reporter, Jill Leovy, is a timely addition...
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Judge Moore and Justice Thomas and marriage equality in Alabama
I guess that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is taking his cues from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent instead of from the actual ruling in which the majority of the United...
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American Terrorists
Try this exercise. Yesterday morning I thought about terror attacks here in the United States and as the day went on I wrote them down. I ended up with two lists: One of Muslim perpetrators, one of...
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Guns and public health
There are too many guns in the United States. Last October Christopher Ingraham wrote in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog It’s tough to know exactly how many guns we have in the United States. Most...
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Hillary and Bernie
I woke up this morning to pundits talking about the debate last night as if it had been a boxing match. As a friend posted on Facebook that is not what he saw. Me either. What he and I saw were two...
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The silly season begins in earnest with too many deaths and too many guns
Time to fire up the blog again after a long break. I’ve found the world just too depressing to write about with violence and war all over the world including police shooting civilians, civilians...
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act
The Republicans have made a mantra out of repealing the ACA aka Obamacare. I’ve lost track of how many times they have voted to repeal it, but close to 60, I think. The surprising thing is how...
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Senate in a hurry
The Senate, that body that couldn’t seem to muster enough energy to do very much since 2010 except hold endless hearings about Hillary Clinton, has suddenly gotten busy. Last night – or rather early...
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Woman power is the future
A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America’s political history in January of 2017. But pretty much no one anticipated that they’d be doing it as leaders of the resistance. On...
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I’ve just finished reading Jon Meacham’s book The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Using various periods in our history (The Civil War, the McCarthy Era, Reconstruction, etc),...
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