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What A Bunch Of Racist Hicks Here In South Cackalacky »

At least according to my representative, Jim Clyburn. Let me just say that this is not at ALL what I had planned to write about this morning. I was going to write about the Senate Finance Committee voting on a bill that hasn’t even been written out yet, more a theoretical bill, if [...]

Are We Training Our Own Domestic Terrorists? »

Are extremists infiltrating our own military to the point of inadvertently training terrorists who will attack us in the future? It turns out that at least 40 persons who list their occupation as “military” are profiled on the Internet forum New Saxon, a Facebook-like site operated by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.
Is this a [...]

A Timeline of Women’s Contributions to American Political History »

I am a proud member of Charlotte for Hillary, a grassroots organization committed to delivering Mecklenburg County and North Carolina to Hillary Clinton.
The contributions that women have made to the history of this nation are rarely acknowledged. Most of the children in the country grow up not knowing that women were at the forefront [...]

Lyndon Johnson placed “the full weight of his office on the side of justice” »

I implore you to watch this very brief and riveting video of the Bill Moyers Essay on January 18, 2008, with special thanks to Josh Marshall for posting the full video of Moyers’ marvelous, historically rich essay. One brief comment: I wish every American too young to have experienced this tumultuous, violent, frightening and [...]