(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 15, 2020
Make that Connection: Where Massive Unemployment Meets Online Higher Ed The joys of college graduation seeking celebration, the massive conversion of higher education to online instruction, and depression-level unemployment. Three facts of May 2020. Why not stir them together in a program of national hope and love.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 21, 2020
No V-shaped Recovery for 2020 College Students or Grads A V-shaped recovery is for those who achieved a level of prosperity prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But today's college students and recent college grads are still climbing their first hill. Debt postponement is not enough for our must needy college students and grads. For them, we need debt forgiveness and grants are required.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 21, 2014
Dwight Yoakam Rocks Texas Rodeo At the finals of the Star of Texas Rodeo, Dwight Yoakam turned it up and then some.

SHARE        Saturday, April 28, 2012
Tricked Out Tunes on the Cosmic Sly: Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Grifter's Hymnal" From the beats of the opening bar of the opening track of "Grifter's Hymnal" you can tell that Ray Wylie Hubbard is in a mood to groove right through this millennial year of long reputed doom. After all, there's nothing at risk if your gods are archaic enough to come from places that can't be undone.

(7 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 14, 2010
Obama's Defense of Manhattan Mosque: Strike Three against Mob Rule Obama's defense of religious freedom for Moslems joins key court rulings in Arizona and California for three strikes against mob rule in America.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 9, 2010
In Dallas Obama will Find Memories of a Deported Student The New York Times says the Obama administration is not deporting college students. But Texas has not yet forgotten the case of Saad Nabeel.

SHARE        Sunday, August 8, 2010
Dallas Donor Plans to Discuss Deportee Case with Obama The case of Saad Nabeel presents a picture-perfect example for why America needs a DREAM Act with provision for the return of some recently deported youth.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Racism Implodes Tea Party Momentum With the NAACP's ability to push back against Tea Party racism, is there an opportunity to build a common vision for a progressive push toward November?

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 18, 2010
Resistance is the Health of the People: Denouncing Utah Snitches News of an "illegal immigrant" list circulated by Utah "citizens" provides a timely contrast to the experience of resistance as witnesses at the IVAW convention in Texas.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hindoonomics for Shouting Times In a time of negative mood, go with the flow. Try the quadruple negation?

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 30, 2010
Memorial Day: Who Will Defend the Gulf Coast? The Gulf Coast oil spill has been described as a Constitutional crisis, and so it is. Where is "the common defense" of the Gulf Coast?

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 25, 2009
Job Recovery will Require Equities, Tools, and Land Reform If we're going to reject a jobless recovery what will we have to do?

SHARE        Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Whose Recovery?: Swimming with the Investor Class For the fast moving world of market trading, there are three great families of theory to help investors keep their balance. Ever wonder how the rest of us figure in?

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 21, 2008
Nationalism vs. Internationalism in S. Ossetia Whether you look to Russia, Georgia, Poland, or the USA, the victor stands waving flags. His name is nationalism. And in the face of this victory, what are the chances that the people of the USA will be able to choose internationalism instead?

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 16, 2008
Listening to Putin's "Real" Opposition The real opposition in Russia does not belong to "liberals" says Anna Arutunyan. The Communist Party more accurately represents a popular mood. So what are the Communists saying about South Ossetia?

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 15, 2008
Russian Activists Speak for Peace Statements by human rights activists in Russia may help voices of the peace in USA to find common ground for a global peace position in the Caucasus.

SHARE        Thursday, August 14, 2008
So this is what WWIII looks like? Were the civilians of South Ossetia deliberately sacrificed as a gambit to complete the circle around Iran?

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 9, 2008
Russia Goes for Two Georgia States Before the propaganda machines kick into gear over the Russian military actions in the Caucasian states, voices of peace may want to consider the wishes of the people most affected by the battles.

(9 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Migrant Detention in South Texas: 'An Extreme Depressive State' South Texas immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin agrees with a United Nations report that states: "overuse of immigration detention in the United States violates the spirit of international laws and conventions and, in many cases, also violates the actual letter of those instruments." Read the full interview with an attorney who has decades of experience with migrants in South Texas.

SHARE        Sunday, March 23, 2008
What Happened to Rev. Wright's Religious Freedom? Sen. Barack Obama's 'race speech' continued to presume that Rev. Jeremiah Wright deserves no special consideration on grounds of religious freedom. On Easter Sunday, perhaps, Americans will want to consider whether the pulpit at church deserves any special respect.