The Republican Party over on the GOP.com are asking for you to sign a petition (quick follow the link now) to open up Hillary Clinton’s library (by which they mean Bill Clinton’s presidential records). I’m sure they realize that the Bush Administration, when they came into office in 2000, locked down all the Reagan era … Read more
If neither Dennis Kucinich nor Ron Paul is your first choice in this year’s civic decision that you should be making, I suggest that one of them should be. There is no doubt that democracy has been diminished for their exclusion from multiple debates. The reasoned arguments from the edges are what sometimes steers a … Read more
Q: What was the first amendment proposed to the United States Constitution?
This is actually more of a free speech case. It’s disappointing on both levels. I just found out that Ms. Chris Comer was forced to resign as the director of the Texas Education Agency. (I wished she would have forced a firing – but everyone much choose their own battles.) She was forced to step … Read more
What was the deal with Tim Russert asking UFO questions to Dennis Kucinich during a presidential debate? I certainly was asking myself that. So was Senator Mike Gravel who is also a presidential candidate but was excluded from that same debate. What’s up with the Democratic Party for allowing a network to exclude one of … Read more
A few days ago I was listening to a podcast while biking through Memorial Park all the way to the West Loop and in an extended PBS interview with Mike Gravel I was struck by how much I liked him (and of course how he had no chance in hell of being taken seriously, much … Read more