By JONATHAN ROSENBLUM My guess is that Benghazi is about to be overshadowed by a slew of IRS-related scandals. For low-information citizens more interested in the tabloid fare served up in supermarket checkout lines, Benghazi is a long way away and its significance hard to pinpoint. Every one, however,deals with the IRS at one level [...]
By JONATHAN WOLFMAN Incremental moves toward justice should be celebrated and, as my readers know, I usually invite you to celebrate moments with me, moments along Dr. King’s “Long Arc.” And yet I find that I cannot ask you to celebrate yesterday’s mealy-mouthed and really not very courageous move by the Boy Scouts of America. [...]
By ALAN VAN CAPELLE I am grateful that the Senate Judiciary Committee successfully passed a bill that, for millions of aspiring Americans, will create a path to citizenship. But the bill is incomplete and unjust. I am gravely concerned that Judiciary Committee members failed to stand up and fight for immigration equality for LGBT couples. [...]
By NANCY K. KAUFMAN The best anti-poverty program we have ever had just turned 78, and many in Congress as well as the president want to cut its essential benefits. At a time when millions were near starvation during the depths of the Depression, the U.S. adopted the system of social insurance we know today [...]
By LLOYD MARCUS Enough! For many years, the American Left has and continues to shamelessly abuse the American people; slandering, beating up and bullying them into submission by using the easily proven false narrative that America is a racist nation. In other words, the Left recklessly and unfairly plays the race card. Why? The Left [...]
By JONATHAN WOLFMAN I’ve shared here how some historians articulate three historical stages of European antisemitism, covering the past 1700 years from the time christianity became antagonistic and then lethal to Jews; that is, from the point when Rome adopted christianity. In brief: Stage One I called religious antisemitism. Jews were told: you may not [...]
One of the stated goals of communism is to “Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, and healthy.” It comes as no surprise that, during a CBS interview in February, President Obama supported having the Boy Scouts of America open its membership to gays and, presumably, those who lead scout troops as well. “My attitude, the president said, “is that [...]
There are those who say President Obama is this generation’s Richard Nixon. Comparing the scandals involving the IRS, Benghazi and more to Watergate. But Eleanor Clift at the Daily Beast says, no. Not just yet anyway. Read more at the Daily Beast.
By DAVID SWANSON Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they’ve been passed in large numbers. When we passed a resolution in Charlottesville, Va., last year opposing any attack on Iran, I heard from numerous cities that wanted to do the same. As far as I know, none did. I heard [...]
By DAVID SWANSON t’s not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct democracy, polls suggest we would be investing in green energy. But saying the right thing to a pollster [...]