Single Payer Healthcare

Our nation needs to have a single payer healthcare provider:  the U.S. government.  Every year, 22,000 people in our country die because they do not have access to healthcare.
There’s talk and speculation that Barack Obama might attempt to do something about this, but such talk might be optimism.  A Harper’s article juxtaposed the Obama of [...]

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The Spirit of Sacrifice

Tomorrow is a day to celebrate the life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Each year when this day approaches, I think about an article I read a couple years ago, “Missing Martin,” which classifies King as one of our antisceptic heroes.  Too often in our society, King’s message has been emasculated, even [...]

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We Are Exerting our Military Might in Iraq and Elsewhere, Remember?

Another Presidential debate has come and gone, and neither candidate engaged the problem of our nation’s military aggression against “forces of evil” to any level of consequence.  Worse, issues like health care and our economic crisis functioned as talking points, seemingly unrelated to the way our country chooses to spend its money.  According to Barack [...]

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