[Unfortunately, the recent horrors in Orlando bring us back to this topic again. The LGBTQ community knows this was a hate crime. You don’t go at the people… Read more Who is the Real Enemy? Islamic Terrorists? Islam? Terrorists? →
What is “American Exceptionalism?” At its core, it is the belief that we, as the first “new” nation, threw off the shackles of our European heritage and made ourselves and… Read more American Exceptionalism Gone Woefully Awry! →
Study Says Concealed Carry Permits Don’t Affect Crime Jonathan Silver, Texas Tribune, September 24, 2015 Supporters insist that allowing people to legally carry concealed handguns reduces crime, but that has… Read more Concealed Carry and Crime are Not Correlated →
The execution of the Sheriff’s Deputy in Harris County, Texas was horrible. All sensible peoples’ hearts go out to the officer’s family and his co-workers. But, the Harris County DA and the Sheriff immediately moved the murder from the arena of tragedy to the cesspool of contemporary political rhetoric. “We’ve heard black lives matter; all lives matter. Well, cops’ lives matter too,” Hickman said. “At any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen(s), this rhetoric has gotten out of control,”… Read more Killing Police in the Era of Black Lives Matter →
One issue clearly illustrates the political dynamic that gives center stage to Trump, Carson, and Cruz. From February of this year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reported the… Read more Trump, Carson, and Cruz! Really??? Here is Why. →
You know the cartoon is funny, unless you work for Amazon or a similar employer. Or unless you think JEB BUSH or RAND PAUL will be or should be the… Read more The AMAZON Culture is Exactly What Many Republican Candidates Advocate →
I just completed Gilbert King’s compelling non-fiction work, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. The book deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize… Read more The Devil Still Lives : Gilbert King’s DEVIL IN THE GROVE: THURGOOD MARSHALL, THE GROVELAND BOYS, AND THE DAWN OF A NEW AMERICA. →
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS DISTURBING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES THAT ARE PART OF AMERICAN’S NATIONAL HERITAGE. THEY ARE USED TO ILLUSTRATE THAT THE PHASES DISCUSSED BELOW WERE LIVED BY REAL PEOPLE. … Read more Black Lives Do NOT Matter: Lessons From American History →
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