What Bloomberg Businessweek Thinks of Most Americans
Bloomberg Businessweek recently published an issue titled “The Great American Housing Rebound.” Their cover art choice was a drawing of an American family, sitting in four separate rooms of a house, scooping, counting, and brandishing fistfuls of cash. There is a lamp, a cat, and a dog in the house, but otherwise, it’s mostly a [...]
by Timothy Dwight Smith Violence has always been America’s favorite pastime, and the gun, her preferred toy. It is no secret America was established by use of the gun in threatening, provoking and murdering vulnerable populations, and since her birth as a nation, her image in the world has been colored by these deeds. The [...]
Continue reading …Top 10 Reasons Why Communities of Color Should Care About Stricter Gun-Violence Prevention Laws
January 18, 2013 Comments Off
Father Bob Gettinger, second right, leads a prayer for those killed by gun violence and for the safety of the community as people gather in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, November 23, 2009, one of among more than 20 other U.S. cities participating in the National Day of Outrage, a nationwide call to end violence [...]
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A series of high-profile tragedies has raised new concerns over the violent potential of assault weapons and launched a national conversation about the availability of these guns and the need for background checks. Some gun-rights advocates now complain that these reasonable measures are nothing less than an attempt to “disarm” the American public. Can a [...]
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By Anthony Giancatarino, Center for Social Inclusion @theCSI Congress has once again proved that making sausage is a more attractive process to watch than law-making in a gridlocked Congress. On January 1st, Congress finally reached a partial and time-limited agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. In the midst of the deal, they pushed thousands [...]
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The so-called fiscal cliff negotiations are underway, and a good many important policy decisions are at hand. In play are a number of critical tax and spending issues, including whether to raise taxes on the wealthy and close various tax loopholes and deductions. There is almost no tax deduction that is more popular than the [...]
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On election night, Bill O’Reilly attributed the re-election of Barack Obama, at least in part, to voters who “want stuff,” and that his supporters are “people [who] feel that they are entitled to things.” The day after the election, Rush Limbaugh used his program to make a similar claim, calling Obama “Santa Claus,” and saying [...]
Continue reading …“I See A Country Divided, This is Probably the Most Divided This Country Has Ever Been.” — Hardly
November 20, 2012 Comments Off
A pigeon-toed Indian pontificates about the 2012 Elections with Dennis Farina’s (on left) Doggelganger I think airport conversations, waiting for your flight, are the most interesting conversations you can have. The reason why? Who knows? Could it be that the possibility of dying within the next few hours from a drunken pilot using his beer [...]
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Last Wednesday night was trick-or-treat, or beggars night here in Columbus, OH. While passing out about ten bags of candy, we were visited by lots of zombies, witches, princesses — and more than a few Marvel superheroes. A great Halloween, but not scary by any means; that is, until we looked in our mailbox, and [...]
Continue reading …Fisher Case Justices, Will You Reinforce the False Promises of the Past or Help Expand Opportunity for All?
November 1, 2012 Comments Off
In the Nation that we so desperately want to invent, it would be impossible to predict with any reasonable degree of accuracy the life chances of two new born babies—one of European ancestry; one of African ancestry. In that country, every citizen has an equal opportunity to strive, to achieve, and to grow. There are [...]
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