2015/06/18 – Washington got weird this month. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blew his top when House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) helped destroy a trade deal he personally backed, along with President Barack Obama and the rest of the …..
2015/06/17 – A pattern has emerged—in Oakland, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, and beyond. Police claiming to feel threatened kill unarmed black men. Protests follow, sometimes including violence. The Department of Justice finds a pattern and practice of racially-biased policing. …..
2015/06/12 – In this age of police thuggery, it seems that almost every few days brings another video recorded incident of white-on-black police violence and excessive force. Last week a white police officer in Mckinney, Texas was recorded pulling out …..
2015/06/12 – Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the federal government to punish states that choose to cut higher education funding, and for the federal government to step up funding for federal Pell Grants. “States cuts to higher education must stop,” …..
2015/06/12 – A lot has been written about the event at a public swimming pool, wherein racism and police brutality were in graphic display. One telling element of the story is that what sparked the violence that ended up with …..
