The Iowa State Fair Soapbox Is Americana At It's Best
The Iowa State Fair is 162 years old and is one of the largest, most robust State Fairs in the nation. What separates the fair from other State...
'Little House On The Prairie' Star May Have A New House In The U.S. Congress?
Former childhood television star Melissa Gilbert is all grown up now and has announced she is running for a seat in...
Showboat 2016 Presidential hopeful and current GOP front-runner Donald Trump's mouth has cost him again. This time it was one of his top political advisers, Roger Stone. It is unclear who fired who, but according to...
Recently long-time MSNBC analyst Chris Matthews grilled Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist.
Some observers of the show have suggested that Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled with...
Lone Wolf Terrorism In America Is Becoming Commonplace.
Just a few weeks ago white supremacist Dylann Roof shoots up a historic black church in South Carolina. Before, America can even catch its collective breath we have...
The ?church has a new Pope. And what a difference a Pope makes. Ever since Pope Francis has taken the title of Pope the overall image of the Catholic Church has been on the rise....
There are many facets to the personality of a right-wing extremist, and there have been many studies conducted on the issue. The study of these personality disorders has a starting point . Adorno explored the...
Nestle wants our public drinking water aquifers. There is severe drought throughout much of the American West. States in that region of the country are languishing from drought or near drought conditions, and the public...
By definition, criminal law is the legislation of a state or country dealing with criminal offenses and their punishments.?Over a dozen states have decriminalized marijuana with both Colorado and Washington state making it entirely legal.?There...
On Monday, the Supreme Court continued its trend of aversion on several NRA-backed appeals that would loosen gun rights. This unwillingness by the high court to expand these rights has thwarted gun rights supporters and...
Brotherly love . . .
President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden exemplify brotherly love. Their bond supersedes politics. This relationship was put on public display at the recent funeral of?Vice President Biden's eldest...
Many Americans fail to vote these days. People feel that their votes are in vain, that the system is rigged, and they don't have the time. Americans have expressed the view that the voter registration...
One would have to be " blinded by the light," not to recognize that on average most self-proclaimed Fundamental Christians are dogmatic and conservative.?There is a strong body of research surrounding this phenomenon inspecting the...
Rachel Maddow is one of the most well-educated and familiar news media figures in America today. She has been a progressive voice crying in the wilderness for her entire career. Maddow, more than once in...
Is there not this splendor that is Washington D.C. Just the bureaucratic vastness of it all "Inside the Beltway." Our nation's capital is a world within itself. Since the end of the second World War,...
We are just now reaching the halfway point in 2015 and death by a police officer is soaring in America. According to a report filed in the Washington Post,?385 people have lost their lives at...
There is a very significant problem in America that very few media outlets are paying attention to. The criminalization of poverty is becoming an issue and no one seems to care. What's disheartening is that...
One thing is a certainty in America, millions of Americans love to smoke weed (marijuana). For scores of citizens, firing up a bowl after a long day's work around 4:20 or so is not only...
Discrimination and its cause, Racism, have touched everyone in American at some point?in time. It does not matter how white you are or whatever shade of brown you might be. There must be a conversation...
The Religious Right Has Tried for Years To Lose Its Reputation for Racism.
With the emergence of the Tea Party and its overtly racist attitudes, one can't help but be reminded of another so-called Christian organization:...
