Comment: Affirmative Action, Scalia and Race
Associate Supreme Court Justice Scalia When the divided high Court debated affirmative action, the addition of race as even one factor in college admission appeared to be too…
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The Disappearance of the American Middle Class
While Congress is alseep, Middle class continues to vanish Recent reports have documented the growing rates of impoverishment in the U.S., and new information surfacing in the past…
Bill Cosby Countersues Seven of His Accusers
Bill Cosby is claiming defamation in a lawsuit filed Monday against seven of his accusers. "Mr. Cosby states plainly that he neither drugged nor sexually assaulted the defendants…
Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley, de Blasio To Address Immigrant Conference
Bernie Sanders Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. President, will address via videoconference the National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC), the organization announced.Sanders will address the event…
Trumpism: The Hate That Hate Begat, Or Chickens Coming Home To Roost
Donald Trump -- making the world a more dangerous place with words The colonial climate that followed the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 when Africa was partitioned on paper,…
Governor Cuomo Hails Conviction of Skelos
Dean and Adam SkelosGovernor Andrew Cuomo has praised the bribery conviction today of former State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam as well the recent…
What Donald Trump and ISIS Have in Common — Abdul-Jabbar
Abdul-Jabbar calls out Trump's "cruel and dim-witted thinking" The terrorist campaign against American ideals is winning. Fear is rampant. Gun sales are soaring. Hate crimes are increasing. Bearded…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Apology — Too Little, Too Late
Rahm Emanuel This week with growing calls for his recall Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel finally apologized for the killing of Laquan McDonald who was murdered in cold blood…
Surging GOP Candidate Ted Cruz Votes “No” on Senate Amendment For Protection Against Religious Discrimination
Ted Cruz In response to Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from entering the United States, the Senate Judiciary Committee today passed a “Sense of the Senate” amendment…
Lies And Coverups: Why Justice Department Must Investigate the Chicago Police Department
All eyes on attorney General Loretta Lynch “Because a body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.”--Thomas Paine, Rights of Man,…