2 Mar, 2018
Trump Cannot Find Target or Solutions to Gun Violence
“In marksmanship and long-range shooting, “finding target” references the challenges of making adjustments for many factors.” Wim Laven Published in:...
1 Mar, 2018
The Rule of the Rich and the Last Hurrah. An Essay of the Man from the North
“Rich people rule, make no mistake. They have ruled for centuries, and the toll of their reign has been high....
1 Mar, 2018
Melting the ice in the human heart
“How close, how intimate, have you ever gotten with Greenland? A new documentary called Stella Polaris, directed by Yatri Niehaus...
22 Feb, 2018
Duck and Cover
“Once those articulate Florida high school students, God love them, are finished exposing the craven emptiness of politicians like Marco...
22 Feb, 2018
The cheapening of human life
“The cries of terror and disbelief continue. Teenagers lie down in front of the White House to protest the nation’s...
21 Feb, 2018
Maybe All Threats of Mass Destruction are “Mentally Deranged”
“After Trump’s Sept. 23 bombast at the United Nations where he claimed the US might “have no choice but to...
21 Feb, 2018
Stopping Mass Shootings: Less Finger Pointing, More Action
“In the wake of yet another school shooting, everyone from ordinary citizens to pundits to politicians seems to be engaged...
20 Feb, 2018
After the Parkland Shooting….Teach Youth About Dating Violence
“I never thought this would be my life’s work. But writing and speaking about the connections between domestic and dating...
19 Feb, 2018
Is There a Trump-Russia Conspiracy?
“Now that Russia’s interference in US politics since at least 2014 is “official” with Robert Mueller’s indictments—the evidence is “incontrovertible,”...
18 Feb, 2018
The Trump Administration’s War on Workers
“When Donald Trump was running for the presidency, he promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have...
15 Feb, 2018
Was There Really a Breakthrough in US-North Korea Relations?
“In the aftermath of the “Korean spring” at the Winter Games, some observers waxed euphoric over the potential for direct...
14 Feb, 2018
War and poverty: a compromise with hell
“It’s so easy to paper over the real American security void with verbiage about strength vs. weakness and the endless...
12 Feb, 2018
The other superpower?
““I’m so honored to be alive at such a miraculous time in history. I’m so moved by what’s going on...
7 Feb, 2018
Trump’s Immigration Reform is Tone Deaf
“President Trump laid out a new plan for immigration reform in his State of the Union address. It calls for...
6 Feb, 2018
Trumped up treason
““Somebody said ‘treasonous.’ I mean — yeah I guess, why not. Can we call that treason? Why not. I mean,...