Rachel Oxman

 NBA vs. NRA

"There was a point at which Jackie Robinson refused to 'respect' the flag at ball games." -- James Baldwin Demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man…

Gleaning The Meaning

  In the first 11 weeks of 2018, there have been 12 school shootings. Although shootings on school campuses only make up a tiny fraction of gun injuries and deaths annually,…

The United States of Avoidance

Dr. Ron Forthofer, who wrote U.S. Mainstream Media: Empire's Too, has made a huge mistake in his characterization of the mainstream media respecting domestic issues His "mistake" is worth citing…

The Bucket of Blood Beyond Parkland

"Sixty-eight percent of U.S. citizens believe that 'better mental health screening' would help to reduce the number of school shootings, but one has to ask what's considered mentally healthy in…

Don’t You Know What Happened?

  "In less than ten years, two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions." -- one of the last lines of the documentary spotlighted in this…

Activist Being Through A Glass Darkly

"Dawkins... seems to suffer from a ‘god in the sky’ childhood Bible indoctrination. " -- excerpt from a colleague referring to Richard Dawkins "From the oscillating universe beating like a gigantic heart to…

 Considering Absolute Numbers

  On October 12, 1961 Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot died. I went to his funeral in the French War Veterans section of the Flushing Cemetery in…

 If Anything….

  "Why do men then now not reck his rod?" -- a line from God's Grandeur "Progressives, generally, are not at home with controversial religious issues, in part because they…

Clarion Call for The Great USed

USers (better known as "Americans") have been expressing a preference in survey polls for access to a universal health care system for quite some time. Considering their frustration with so-called…

 The Third That’s Needed

  "We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." -- from The Tempest In Shakespeare's The Tempest, it is characteristic of…

 One Trick Pony Up

  "He makes it Look so easy, it looks so clean He moves like God's immaculate machine" -- from Paul Simon's "One Trick Pony" "When a person expends the least…

I Know Of None

"What we do not yet know is how much of the ancient Abbasid city of Raqqa and its horseshoe walls and the gate of Baghdad built probably in the eighth…

 Pardon Me

  A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me; I felt his gaze, I heard his moan, And knew his hunger as my own.…

The Blood That Flows Within

  “If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error. If it has recognized the fact, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order…

 Incendiary Incarceration

  "I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare....…

FO Forward

  "While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison,…

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