In just a little bit President Barack Hussein Obama is going to inaugurated for a second time. This time there will not be high hopes and a belief that change is coming. This time no one who has been paying attention believes that this man is going to lift a finger in regards to human, civil, labor or human rights; environmental justice or economic inequality. We know he isn’t going to depoliticize the State or Justice Departments and he is not going to fight media consolidation, seriously…

America is a country that is always at war with itself. We live at the point where what it claims to be clashes with the hard-cold reality of what it actually is. The claim that we are the land of the free has never been true for every soul under the Stars and Stripes. In fact every “freedom” we enjoy was won with someone’s blood and taken from those in power not given by our Constitution or won on some distant shore in some foreign war. We must clearly face that we live in a time of…

Another year is almost in the books. We’ve almost made it all the way around the sun again and a lot has happened, some good, some bad and some so ugly that Medusa herself would fall down dead from terror if she were face to face with them. But we’re not Medusa; we’re citizens so it’s our responsibility, pleasure, honor and calling to do just that. We are obligated to stand up to the powerful and for principle in the face of civic violence and evil. We are charged with that most sacred of…

You don’t have to be an expert in economics, mathematics, sociology or politics to know that what is happening right now in our country cannot continue. It is unsustainable in a way that preys on the present, transmutes the future into despair and ignores the past in a way that puts in grave peril. Either we will wake up and start doing the hard work it will take to save our little country and slip further into a nightmare that has made us a torture state that is trying to decide when it…

I am an American moderate. I exist dead center in what the majority of Americans want on every major issue facing the country and no one speaks for me or to me. I am an American moderate and everyday I see my country descending into anarchy and evil. Everyday the media I depend on to help me be an informed citizen capable of relating to and holding government officials accountable accede to radical, even Noe-Confederate forces as if they are legitimate participants in political arena. I am…

I am an American moderate. I exist dead center in what the majority of Americans want on every major issue facing the country and no one speaks for me or to me. I am an American moderate and everyday I see my country descending into anarchy and evil. Everyday the media I depend on to help me be an informed citizen capable of relating to and holding government officials accountable accede to radical, even Noe-Confederate forces as if they are legitimate participants in political arena. I am…

I remember walking in the snow, knocking on doors, making phone calls, visiting with people, working my soul down past the bone to elect Barack Obama… only to be hit by Deception’s Hammer. He didn’t make many promises. He said he’d put on comfortable shoes and march with us but he wasn’t in Wisconsin or Michigan or Ohio, or Chicago or anywhere else where unions are being strangled to death. Deception’s Hammer is driving a stake through democracy’s heart and it feels like our President is…

In “normal” times the social contract is easy enough to abide by and enforce. In times of crisis assumptions of what it means to be an American should reflect our nation’s best values and aspirations not unleash the worst demons of our lesser souls. A nation is defined by how it responds when its values and identity are under stress. When dramatic events confront a country its rhetoric, history and laws mean nothing and its actions mean everything. Our nation’s sorry history…

I try not to lose my mind too often but then I, like you, have been watching the political theater of the blind, leading the stupid at the direction of idiots, around the debt ceiling. It’s times like this when I wish to God that we had a media capable to doing its job the hardest. Because if they were on their game they would tell us the Republicans are in gross dereliction of their sworn Constitutionally mandated duty to abide by the 14^th Amendment. You see it says that once we…