Last night we counted the votes in one of the most contentious Presidential elections in our history. For nearly a year and a half the American people were subjected to the rhetoric from the campaign trail and it was filled with hatred and prejudice of all kinds. In the end, the American people, one by …
We hear it all the time – “I’m not a racist.” Typically coming from white citizens (most recently white Police Officers), but occasionally coming from non-whites as well. I am confident that these folks really believe what they are saying, but that leaves me unable to resolve the dilemma that I am left with. Specifically, …
Last week Mike Huckabee threw his hat into the ring and he said something that I found interesting and very telling when it comes to the state of politics in America. We understand that part of the business of politics is the need to speak to your audience in ways that they will understand and …
As the story goes, the Emperor of Rome, Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Nero for short, played his fiddle while Rome was burning in A.D. 64. As with most political stories there are problems with the facts. First, the violin had not yet been invented at that time let alone the more casual name …
The last few days have been filled with political conversation surrounding the death of two hostages being held by Al Qaeda. One of the hostages was an American and the other was an Italian citizen. Also killed in the raid was another American who was fighting for Al Qaeda and this is the fellow I …
It has now been over six years since President Obama took office and nearly four years since the House of Representatives became a Republican majority. During those intervening years we have witnessed a steady decline in productivity out of our Legislature and I don’t think our founding fathers had anything to do with it. Let’s …
I thought it appropriate to address myself to the practice of prejudice since we are seeing so much of it these days. Whether a particular prejudicial situation is about gender, race, sexuality, religion or any other bias, when a person is judged on the basis of that bias, in the absence of personal character information, …
Sadly, it is becoming a weekly occurrence when we turn on the news to find another article about a police shooting of an unarmed suspect. The Police are part of our judicial system which is based on the premise that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but now we …
As the Founding Fathers were busy writing the Constitution of the United States, they realized that in addition to giving the three branches of our Government certain well-defined responsibilities there was also a need to put in place the means for preventing Government overreach. We know these provisions of the Constitution broadly as “checks and …
During my morning conversation with the treadmill, I was just introduced to the racist event hosted by a group of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members at The University of Oklahoma and I can’t find a suitable adjective for what I am feeling. Shock is not strong enough and neither is disgust, but I’ll keep looking for …
