Our history of race.

The fact that I want to cry each time I hear a story of someone that voted for the first time, and voted for an African American presidential candidate for the first time is an indication of how much is riding on this election.  Everyone in my camp wants desperately to hope.   But I [...]

“Self-interest” is a symptom of a slavish mind

Thanks to The Republic of T., I came across this editorial by David Bromwich in The Huffington Post: Parable of the Poor and Rich Plumber.  It hits on many of my concerns regarding the manner in which the US population is approaching politics these days, particularly in the red states of the former frontier.  (And [...]

Hearing too much about Obama or McCain? Maybe it’s the wrong type of coverage.

This article, titled “Obama: Time to cover the other guy?” is attempting to establish through a lit review of recent publications in other news sources that we are sick of hearing about Obama and need to hear more about McCain.  MSNBC has taken information from the Boston Globe, which says: Barack Obama may be the [...]

What will McCain have to do to compete?

This particular news bit is already 5 days old, but it got me thinking – was a McCain/Jindal ticket really out of the question? Bobby Jindal, for those that do not know, is the Republican (right wing Christian) governor of Louisiana. He ran in 2003 and lost to Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, in a watershed [...]