Politics
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
Um... Excuse me. I have a question.
Since we are taking a stand regarding the confederate flag flying over tax payer funded public grounds, does this mean we are giving corporations who venerate this symbol a pass? I ask because, well, if we're going to do this, let's do it right.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
(Aristotle has awakened Socrates, who thought he had been dispatched with hemlock. Aristotle is having a vision of the far-future.) See Part 1 HERE
SOCRATES: Let us go on with this vision of yours. What is that collective of nations now doing to our Greece?
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
ARISTOTLE: Socrates, Socrates, wake up!
SOCRATES: Wha-at...?
- Written by: Patrick Julius
- Category: Politics
JDN 2457208 (July 4, 2015)
Independence Day is a holiday centered around patriotism. But very few ever stop to ask: What is patriotism?
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
The first you ever heard of him,
This ego with a name,
Abby Does One For The Gooper... I mean Gipper
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Throughout Barack Obama’s first term, he constantly was berated by the breathless bleating of the birthers. The accusations emitted by these ovine utterances centered around the supposition that , although Obama’s mother may have been a citizen of the United States, he was born in a foreign country. They vociferously maintained that makes him ineligible to be president of the United States.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Plethoric with symbolism, straining History snaps the rusty bonds of hypocrisy, and fleetingly flies to its intended rendezvous with Destiny.
An American president rooted with genes from man's mother Pangea, intones a melody derived from the pen of a repentant purveyor of Pangea's sons.
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
So, I have been reading a lot of internet posts going back and forth on the Charleston church shooting and the political debate regarding civil war icons on public grounds across the south. I thought I might chime in.
I think we can all agree that the display of the confederate flag on state house, or any public grounds, doesn't work anymore. Regardless of how, when or why it was placed there to begin with, now is the time to take it down. I cannot think of a better way to honor the nine victims who were brutally murdered by that racist assassin, Roof.
A week that started on the heels of a horrible reminder that there are still many ignorant, backward and racist people among who, some are willing to murder and terrorize, went on to become what history may well declare to be the turning point in recent American history.
The brutal murders of those innocent parishioners started a movement to sweep the last vestiges of Confederate iconography and ensure that the Civil War is finally and truly gone with the wind. Hopefully this will continue to build momentum until every last battle flag is removed from officially sanctioned property, until every statue and monument in our government buildings, squares and parks is either removed or revised with a plaque that tells the FULL truth about every one of those traitors. That every boulevard, avenue, street and alley named after those who fought to defend slavery is renamed (hopefully after a hero of civil rights). Until every single portrait, stained glass and any other item celebrating those who took up arms against our country for no other reason but to preserve the original sin of our nation is finally made right.
