2018 Update: The Trump administration is discharging immigrant recruits who joined under MAVNI to gain citizenship through service. The risk of a foreign-born terrorist threat was a reason. If the administration was genuinely concerned about terrorism within the ranks then it should focus its efforts Read More …
As I read some excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s What Happened book, I rolled my eyes. This is not a critique on the book. This is a critique of the myriad of reasons posited for not understanding her loss and her supporters need to figure out. Read More …
Sept. 2019: A year ago, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times about “the resistance inside the Trump administration …working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations…[because] the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the Read More …
2018 Update: The US government under the Trump administration and Jeff Sessions is trying to use the Bible to justify separating immigrant children from parents. Children have died and been sexually abused in ICE custody. Shame to Christians who fail to call this blasphemy and Read More …
For those that say “give Trump a chance,” I do not have the privilege or luxury to ignore him making fun of the disabled, denigrating women, or his racist policies against blacks. He refused to rent to them. He took out full page ads against Read More …
I love that millennials are becoming activists as seen in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) movements. However, I am disturbed that for all the activism, some still did not vote. “My vote doesn’t matter” is oft repeated. If you want Read More …
2018 Update: The US government under the Trump administration is creating its own “Calais Jungle” separating immigrant children from parents at the border. Painter Norman Lewis said, “The goal of the artist must be aesthetic development, and in a universal sense, to make in his Read More …
2018 Update: Trump’s America makes racists feel comfortable calling 9-1-1 when they believe a black person should not be somewhere they deem their space. Jordan Peele and Spike Lee’s movie BlacKkKlansman highlights a problem long known to the black community, white supremacists in law enforcement and Read More …
2019 Update: The El Paso mass shooter invoked Trump’s words of trying to rid the US of an Hispanic “invasion.” Since Trump campaigned for office, Trump encouraged violence on his campaign telling supporters to knock the crap of protesters and he would cover legal fees. Read More …
Trump boasted during the primary, “I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose voters.” The sad truth is that he was right. Truth and facts matter little to his supporters. Both he and his wife can plagiarize the Obamas and it’s just the Read More …
2018 Update: The US government under the Trump administration and Jeff Sessions is trying to use the Bible to justify separating immigrant children from parents. Shame to Christians who fail to call this blasphemy and a perversion of the Bible. In his Treatise on Christian Read More …
The purpose of the Olympics is to “contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination or any kind, in a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” Current US rhetoric of building a wall, kicking Mexicans and Read More …