Monthly Archives: July 2013

Bradley Manning’s conviction by a military court for leaking or passing sensitive military documents and video to the website WikiLeaks is a warning to potential whistleblowers and so-called leakers. The message is: count to ten and then think twice before you … Continue reading →

  According to Rush Limbaugh, “Muslim women” like Huma Abedin (NY city mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s wife) “don’t have any power” . . . and so “Weiner can get away with anything.” Limbaugh is quoted in a story by Noah … Continue reading →

The purpose of penalty is four-fold: punish the perpetrator, compensate the victim, set an example to society, and reform the perpetrator. In the case of Ariel Castro, who has pleaded guilty to kidnapping three women and holding them and a … Continue reading →

Secretary of State John Kerry has brokered a deal where Israelis and Palestinians will sit and discuss a future of peace in the Middle East. As in the past, the effort will end up in no peace at all because … Continue reading →

If anyone deserves the Nobel Peace Prize it is Kuya Pultak, the Philippines corporate lawyer who, in 2011, started a community effort known in that country as a bayanihan to build school houses and classrooms in the remotest areas of the … Continue reading →

The kind of thinking like that of Ken Crow and his fellow Tea Party of America folk only reveals how shallow and narrow-minded they are. It’s so pitiful that at this time and age there are still people who believe … Continue reading →

Michele Bachmann easily outclasses Sarah Palin when it comes to making seemingly incoherent statements that appear meant to impress rather than convince. MINNPOST (Friday, July 12) reports that at an event in Elk River, Minnesota, Bachmann said “The No. 1 reason … Continue reading →

New Yorkers will be deciding whether to give Eliot Spitzer, their disgraced former governor who resigned after being accused of paying for sex with prostitutes, a second chance at serving them. Spitzer is running for New York state comptroller and … Continue reading →

Multimillionaire Charles Koch claims that people who make $34,000 a year are within the wealthiest 1% in the world (Charles Koch Foundation: An Income Of $34,000 Puts You In The Wealthiest 1 Percent, Huffington Post by David Winograd 7/11/2013). While it is … Continue reading →

The American people should place the blame for the last (and ongoing) recession solely on the shoulders of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. When Ben Bernanke took over as chairman pf the Federal Reserve he was very well aware that … Continue reading →