Tag: civil rights

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019…America still hasn’t reached the society that it aspires to. The Other Talk from the NY Times: We sat at a dirty table covered in used napkins and crumbs, leftovers from the guests who dined before us. My father took a clean napkin,…

“…I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” President Obama I had started down this path earlier this week in response to Vice President Joe Biden’s comments from Sunday…

The Republicans who lead the Wisconsin Assembly have been arresting anyone in the gallery of the Assembly who demonstrates anything like free speech.  They arrest people with cameras, and they arrest people with signs, and they are even arresting people with small sheets of paper.  According to the Republicans of the…

Over at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald has an excellent piece outlining the secret White House committee that has been empowered by….well, no one’s really sure who set up the committee…which has been empowered to decide which American citizens should be placed on a list for assassination by the CIA. Greenwald cites…

No, it’s not the Madison version of the World Naked Bike Ride, though both of those are about parading. Indeed, they are about parading for freedom. No, I’m talking about the reaction to the Madison Naked Bike Ride in the comments section of the Wisconsin State Journal photo spread. These…