Hillary Clinton & Trump: Members of the same Club.
Aside from a few jabs here & there the fight between Hillary & Donald has yet to materialize into anything spectacular. Much of what has fueled Trump’s success is his hate-filled rhetoric;...
View ArticleI'm just a small town girl that grew up Republican, going all in for Bernie.
This is my first diary on Kos and I never actually intended to write anything on here. I refrain from social media and try to stay out of most arguments on the internet. But the farther into the...
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Rep. Mike Honda Brings Money Home to House Veterans, GOTV in #CA17
Housing and Homelessness are issues of great concern across the country. In the Silicon Valley, our housing crisis reaches across a vast swath of socioeconomic levels and robs many of the American...
View ArticleReflections on Orlando
It strikes me that even my best straight friends, magnificent men and women all, don't always know of or understand the deep chasms of grief and pain that underlie the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
View ArticleMelting The American Dream at the Conventions
We’re installing two 4,000 pound sculptures carved in ice spelling out the words The American Dram at the conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia this summer. They will melt away to focus on the...
View ArticleIs the Independence we celebrate, Freedom & Justice for All?
We’ve come a long way since Susan B. Anthony, Lincoln Memorial’s Marion Anderson, Playboy Bunnies and Equal Pay Act – with women committed to the moral, political and racial good fight — all the way to...
View ArticleA Nation on the Brink: Michelle Alexander and our "Society without 'Solidarity'"
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:As I've been struggling with what to put in, leave out, or abandon altogether in my own statement on the “state of the nation” (tentatively entitled "A Society...
View ArticleThe Uncommon Core of Donald Trump, Jr.
Too many people on both sides of the political spectrum are giving Donald Trump, Jr. a rave review for his flawed speech last night at the RNC. He came off as an oxymoron when he claimed to have the...
View ArticleSame War -- Different Battles
If voting didn’t matter, Wall Street bankers and their K. Street cronies wouldn’t work so hard to suppress our privilege to do so. Nonetheless, it’s easier to succumb to the valley of indoctrinated...
View ArticleA rare response to the brother-in-law (re: Franklin Graham)
What follows is the original text received in an email from the BIL. He’s a great guy, I love him. But this is one I could not ignore. More below the fold (I think).Some words of wisdom someone sent me...
View ArticleA powerful populist message...
Charles Pierce writes that he doesn’t know if the DJT campaign found a new speechwriter or his staff found the right dosage, but Pierce highlighted a new message from Donald Trump’s speech in New...
View ArticleSPLC: two documentaries Dream On, America Divided
From an email I can’t seem to find a corresponding link for:Catch the Southern Poverty Law Center tonight in not one, but two documentary presentations.America Divided: The Class Divided features SPLC...
View ArticleStephen Tryon Confronts Hillary Hunter Jason Chaffetz
For my friends at the Daily Kos, my debate last week highlighted ongoing injustices against the Native American population of San Juan County, Utah and the chronic deception of Hillary hunter Jason...
View ArticleDream American.
In my dream last night I saw this little snaggle-toothed girl sitting on a chair. She had red white and blue beads in her cornrows and a red white and blue party dress. She was sitting on a chair that...
View ArticleRural Allegany County Maryland: Where Environmental and Economic Illusions...
December 21, 2016Testimony of Billofrights to the Allegany County Planning Staff on the proposed Zoning Regulations and the relationship between fracking for natural gas and previously stated values*...
View ArticleAn Iraqi's feelings on the protests in America goes viral—this is what...
The protests and marches, the phone calls and visits to elected officials’ offices, are sometimes motivated by anger and frustration but always filled with one underlying fundamental truth—we love our...
View Article1899 Newsboys' Strike: When we had enough hope to change
Ruined our state? No worriesYet another in the long, long list of Bible verses with which the Christian Right is apparently unfamiliar is 1 Timothy 5:8:"And the laborer IS worthy of his reward"...
View ArticleMy city is dead and so is our American Dream.
As I drive around on my way to doctor visits ,the pharmacy or to the grocery stores, I come to notice just how really dead my city is. Where as a child there was a Mom and Pop little store you could...
View ArticleA documentary series: The People vs America | plus: Bernie Sanders' for the...
The beginning link: The People vs America [American corporations] The United States faces a disunited future with a polarizing new pr*sident. As Donald Trump takes office, we trace the historical...
View ArticleJust How Off the Rails Is the US Political Spectrum?
As a matter of perspective, you may be interested in knowing what the upcoming election in Canada's westernmost province, British Columbia, is being fought on the basis of.The center-right...
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