A lot of tough questions have to be addressed if we are to have a real conversation about race. And all of us have to face realities without excuses.
As a 21st Century Will Rogers, Stewart has spoken truth to those in power with an astoundingly consistent and brilliant wit and much to his own surprise, became the primary source of news for a generation.
Roy Moore's resemblance to George Wallace is very striking. Both justified their hateful prejudices as moral and democratic imperatives, warned of terrible consequences from not sustaining their bigotry and both made sweeping, dictatorial-styled edicts.
Guys in Vietnam (I talk from experience about Nam) saw buddies wounded or killed. Many of us helped get them on choppers to get medical help. Most of us had to shoot enemy soldiers. Believe me that is not easy for some of us. I know it haunts me. It goes against human nature to kill other human beings. Oh, there are some people who like killing, no doubt. But I think most folks do not enjoy taking life from another human.
In a week when Republicans campaign for the good old days of measles epidemics and Black Plague ("We should have the freedom to choose...
American Sniper is the first truly great film made about the war in Iraq. It is not a celebration of war; or a call to action against Muslims. It is a sad film about the bravery of warriors in battles whose purpose is lost in the fog of war.
I enjoyed the super Bowl, Patriots are my team. I like football as a sport. However I can't understand how the NFL can accept...
According to Christie, this is what The Founders had in mind when they wrote the Bill of Rights, "Hey Jefferson, don't forget to add that bit I want about assuring all citizens the right to be carriers of Black Plague! FREEDOM!"
"Me am Bizarro Romney and me very disappointed at support you have shown me. Me have been in the media a lot lately for one reason, me have nothing to say that matters."
"Look, I'm not a scientist so I can't say one way or the other if the climate is changing, I think the jury is still out on that," President Koch III expressed as he christened the new impervious dome constructed around the White House in a high security ceremony.