Issue: 482
July 26, 2012
Commentary
Will Suspicion of “Gender Fraud” Police LGBTQ Olympians?
Editorial Board
The 2012 London Summer Olympics begins July 27th. Many women who chose to participate in sports often went to great lengths to display traditional heterosexual cultural markers through their clothing, hairstyles and mannerisms. While we all know that homophobia in sports is the other “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” twenty-one openly LGBTQ athletes, two coaches and…
The 2012 London Summer Olympics begins July 27th. Many women who chose to participate in sports often went to great lengths to display traditional heterosexual cultural…
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Commentary
Obama’s Police-State Apparatus is in Place – Ready to be Unleashed
Editorial Board
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them…” -Frederick Douglass Will we ever learn from the lessons of history or are we destined to perpetually repeat them? Due to the lust for power and the insatiable greed…
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..."…
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Commentary
A Sensible “Deal for All” Challenges the Dreaded “Simpson-Bowles”
Editorial Board
The real losers would be seniors, sick poor people, the unemployed, and people with disabilities. A highly placed journalist spoke up boldly over the weekend on behalf of the country’s serious people, “those of us who crave a little common sense,” who are feeling a bit of “despair,” right now because the nation’s capital has…
The real losers would be seniors, sick poor people, the unemployed, and people with disabilities. A highly placed journalist spoke up boldly over the weekend on…
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Commentary
PROFILE: White, Male Geek
Columnist
If profiling, in the security and criminal justice sense, is an effective method to identify those who are likely to cause injury and death, where is the profile of the white, male geek? Some justify the profiling of folks with Arab dress getting on airplanes. And brown folks (Hispanics) are profiled on the highways of…
If profiling, in the security and criminal justice sense, is an effective method to identify those who are likely to cause injury and death, where is…
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Guest Commentary
Obama & Me: An African American Activist’s – Search for Clarity
Guest Commentator
As an African American, I have been confused, frustrated, enraged and mystified by what is now referred to as the “Obama phenomenon” among African Americans. And while this phenomenon is complex, I am only going to comment on one aspect of the phenomenon – the almost irrational defense of President Obama by significant majorities in…
As an African American, I have been confused, frustrated, enraged and mystified by what is now referred to as the “Obama phenomenon” among African Americans. And…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim…” – Martin Luther King, Jr
Guest Commentator
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