VOICES

TRUMPLICANS - I grew up in canoe country, becoming a guide in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness as a young man.

THE EASTSIDER - I would not care about Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) except for the fact that he’s personally basking in the glory of screwing the entire United States as he plays around selling his vote.  Two recent articles explain what he really is, and it ain’t pretty. 

DEFENSE SPENDING - Perennial claims about precision "smart bombs" by the Pentagon and its boosters have been proven false again and again around the world, by the corpses of civilians—dehumanized as "collateral damage"—killed by U.S. weaponry. 

VOICES - Chris Wallace stepped down from the network on December 12.

COMMENTARY - Imagine what would happen if all power, phones, and the internet go down, if roads become impassable. 

UNION MEMBERS - A handful of workers at the Dollar General In the small Connecticut town of Barkhamsted had grown frustrated last September at being poorly treated by a district manager, amid allegations that sexual harassment was ignored.

MARC'S ANGLE - A few years ago, I didn’t even know who Jussie Smollett was.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - You and I must cannot, nor must not, ignore the era in which we now find ourselves: in contrast to the true "Great Awakening" of the Renaissance that brought Western civilization out of the Dark Ages to combat the Great Enemy of political, religious, artistic ignorance... 

ABORTION - As the US teeters on the brink of outlawing abortion, an expert from Poland explains the practical and emotional consequences of such a ban. 

ABORTION RIGHTS - What exactly is the motivation behind abolishing the right to have an abortion?

WORK FORCE - Throughout history, work has been the common lot of humanity—at least, outside of the idle rich and those who could not find any.

CORPORATE SPORTS - ‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, this time of year celebrates spirituality and festivities —  including Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa.

PARENTS AND GUN VIOLENCE - We need parents and families to teach values and reinforce behavior that challenges the gun-slinger culture.

JUSTICE WATCH - On the 6^th of January 2001, two Presa Canarios got loose in a hallway of a San Francisco highrise apartment building.

ISLAMOPHOBIA - In her latest act of demonizing Muslims, Rep. Lauren Boebert recently insinuated at multiple events that Rep. Ilhan Omar could have been a suicide bomber because of her Islamic faith.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Dammit all, China is a huge human rights and economic threat to the world, and I am SO tough,

COMMENTARY - The fact that Americans refuse to get vaccinated as the pandemic rolls into its third year is deeply disturbing. 

CHURCH VS STATE - The idea that America is a Christian Nation is a modern myth.

HUMAN RIGHTS - Freedom of speech is virtually universally desired but frequently suppressed. Most people want to say something when institutions are inattentive or mishandling what matters to us.

URBAN PLANNING - An unholy alliance of planners, financiers, and leftists wants everyone to live in mass social housing developments. 

COMMENTARY - American public education is broken. Since the pandemic began, students have experienced severe learning loss because schools remained closed in 2020—