What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Wanted – The Daily Show
On Monday night, The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent” talked about people misappropriating Dr. King’s name and legacy for their political agendas. After my post yesterday (especially the update to that post) Amoxicillin relieves by changing roles’s opioid to try….
Felon voting rights and Indiana
As we approach Indiana’s primary election day, I want to point out that Indiana is one of the few states that gets it right when it comes to restoring the voting rights of people convicted of felonies. A few weeks…
Trayvon Martin and the progressive Christian response to violence
“We have become a nation in which children have become expendable. Trayvon Martin is just the most recent example.” – Charles Pierce, “Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses” The murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26 by George…
Trent Franks admits his bill is about more than racially-based abortions
Arizona Republican Trent Franks has been making the rounds to build support for his bill to ban the nonexistent problem of racially-based abortions. On the Concerned Women for America radio program, Franks admitted his bill is just part of an…
Indiana Republicans sign on to “Black Genocide” bill
Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, is probably most famous for his groundbreaking historical theory that black Americans were better off under slavery. But this week, Franks re-introduced his conspiracy theory anti-abortion bill, the grandiosely-named “Susan B. Anthony and…
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on the narcissism of the Tea Party
While I’m not one to mind some adult words thrown into an article, Taibbi seems to rely on profanity as a crutch in his writing. But buried in his four-lettered vocabulary are some important insights. Taibbi realizes, as I’ve argued…
