Jaelle Terrell The Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is a blow. It is a setback. MSNBC reported that this decision “made millions of Americans poorer. Remember the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” It’s not aContinue Reading
Jaelle Terrell Once again I find Real Time with Bill Maher falling short on the issue of transgender identity. Often in the past, Bill and his guests have made incorrect statements about the transgender person’s needs and rights. But let’s focus on yesterday. The twenty-first season of Real Time withContinue Reading
What happens when dangerous minds meet resistance? Where are the agreements to get the government back to work? Can they be agreed upon? How long can America continue without a common narrative to follow? With approval ratings in the teens to the thirties, the United States just can’t work thisContinue Reading
So, here we are in this great US of A in the year 2020 STILL fighting for civil and human rights — endowed to every citizen as stated by the U.S. Constitution. How does that happen in a country born on the premise of freedom and the pursuit of happinessContinue Reading
Harvey Gold At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which ownsContinue Reading
Oil and gasoline are spiking because of Trump’s erratic Middle East policies, interest rates are rising because Trump is adding $1 trillion dollars a YEAR to the national debt, any minor tax benefits to middle America is exceeded by rising prices, the top 20 vehicles sold in the last twoContinue Reading
For a nation that proudly portrays itself as the protector of democratic principles, we have done an incredibly lousy job of practicing what we preach. The result is that U.S. democracy is dying from neglect. For instance: We have a party (Republicans) devoted to making it harder, not easier forContinue Reading
Harvey Gold President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” theContinue Reading
The biggest race of the night for the Democratic party will be decided in a runoff, setting up months of yet another conflict between the establishment and its progressive wing like the one that helped propelled Donald Trump to the White House with the help of Russia. The Democratic CongressionalContinue Reading
At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill,Continue Reading
