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… I will fire the starting pistol. At that time, all African American and other minority runners will leave the starting blocks and begin their sprint. Once these runners have their head start, a second pistol shot will signal that non-minority runners may begin.

We often hear complaints about congressional “gridlock.” The congress, we are told, can’t get anything done. Time to set the record straight. When we think of gridlock, we think of traffic jams — streets clogged with bumper-to-bumper vehicles not moving. No one going anywhere, nothing getting done. That’s pretty much what we think of when someone […]

A free press is not some huge floodlight, illuminating everything so that a well-informed populace can make fully-informed decisions. Rather it is a series of spotlights, each wielded by a journalist or editor, each of whom has a point to make, each of whom wants you to draw certain conclusions. You can learn a lot about a journalist’s world-view by what they cover as well as how. (And by what they choose not to cover.)

The stereotype is a tool, no, make that a weapon, of the narrow-minded – the bigot. Bigots don’t care about the qualities of individuals; they’d rather put everyone into nice neat categories based on some superficial characteristic. Such as branding all Arizonans racist.

The battle over a deficit-reducing federal budget (an oxymoron) is providing the American people with a much needed reality check. For years We The People have been electing a Republican president and a Democratically-controlled congress. We elect a congress that promises to give us more and better of everything and we elect a president that […]