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TrumpĢƵ Trail of Smears

“We cannot and will not stand silent when our Native ancestors, cultures, and histories are used in a derogatory manner for political gain.”Jacqueline Pata, Exec. Dir., National Congress of American Indians – May 3, 2017---Our president never misses an opportunity to say or do the wrong ...

So, ItĢƵ Just About the Votes?

<em>“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”</em>-- Donald J. Trump, presidential candidate, during a speech on Jan. 16, 2016As that messy Alabama senatorial race proceeds, we’re all getting a lesson ...

Harassment is in the eye of the beholder

David Remnick recently wrote in The New Yorker about the 1975 book “Against Our Will: Men, Women, And Rape”, a “startling and controversial” feminist declaration “about the origins” of male-dominated society.“ManĢƵ discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate ...

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Moore

I don’t have anything against Alabama. I’ve never been there. I do, however, wonder why my father, who was born there, hardly ever mentioned it. He left Alabama as a teenager, but he never returned there before he died a few years ago.AlabamaĢƵ role in its resistance to civil rights may ...

Senator McConnell needs to act on Moore

If the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is looking for a way to handle the Roy Moore case in the event Alabama voters send the former jurist and suspected pedophile to the U.S. Senate, he might cast his eyes back to 1926.It was that year when a disreputable Philadelphia ward healer by ...

When the CatĢƵ Away…

<em>“It is here in Virginia that we sent a powerful message to the nation that bigotry, racism and lies will never defeat love, fairness and truth.”</em>Susan Swecker, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, last Tuesday night--When President Trump embarked ...