The Real Conspiracy Against Hip Hop

Illdoc on what’s a conspiracy and what’s reality.

Understanding The Push For Voter ID Laws in America

It’s not hard to work out.  Seriously…

White Americans have officially passed a major … milestone as they now represent less than half of all births in the United States.

You’ve got to strip them of their rights before they know what it is they’re missing.  It’s easier that way.

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How Conservatives Decide Which Policies to Support

The Prison-Industrial Complex Redux: Mississipi Youth Prison Horror Story

I’ve been tracking the corrupt Prison-Industrial Complex for awhile now.  Earlier posts alleged a catastrophic conflict of interest that permits private companies to run public prisons.  Well, it turns out that this conflict of interest is not the worst part.  The worst part is the supervisory failure by GEO prison administrators.  (h/t to Denise Oliver Velez [...]

More on the Prison-Industrial Complex

Opprobrium was heaped upon me by various commenters for my post Arbeit Macht Frei  because I dared invoke the dreaded Nazi reference when talking about our Prison-Industrial Complex.

Phil, I’ve read the very same rants ad nauseam. It’s not like you had any news to report.

I usually enjoy your blog, I’m a Goldwater GOP and am upset [...]

The UN Launches Human Rights Investigation in the United States

Poverty is endemic to the native peoples of America.  Take this one small example.

South Dakota is home to the 3 poorest counties in the Nation. I am very familiar with these places because 3 of the largest American Indian reservations that National Relief Charities serves – Cheyenne River, Rosebud and Pine Ridge – are located in [...]

Arbeit Macht Frei

Eisenhauer warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex.  He warned us that we would all become captive to the desires of a small number of companies.  Well, now we have another unholy public-private alliance to fear: The US Prison-Industrial Complex.

Imagine my (non) surprise to learn that when you turn prisons over to private corporations, they’ll [...]

Racism: A Conservative Team Sport

Ta-Nehisi Coates:

The conservative movement doesn’t understand anti-racism as a value, only as a rhetorical pose. This is how you end up tarring the oldest integrationist group in the country (the NAACP) as racist. The slur has no real moral content to them. It’s all a game of who can embarrass who. If you don’t [...]

Opposition to Brookfield, Wisconsin mosque clearly not about traffic concerns

Back in March I wrote about some Waukesha County residents’ opposition to a proposed Brookfield, Wisconsin mosque and my concerns over misinformation and fear-mongering. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and not jump to hasty conclusions, but that’s not easy to do when they say things that make it nearly impossible. My hope [...]

Bob Marley Sings for Treyvon Martin and Other Victims of Racism in America