Month: May 2009

Only the rarest politician is willing to criticize his or her nation’s soldiers. Even in the face of something as dreadful and inarguably indefensible as the photos from Abu Ghraib, a politician’s first instinct is...

When people talk about openly gay people serving in the military having a negative effect on ‘good order’, I always tend to look back at Executive Order 9981 which, in 1948, forced the beginning of racial integration...

This is a joy to read.

Published Friday, May 8 at ThisBlksistasPage.wordpress.com  This morning I saw Leonard Nimoy on The View.  In fact, I’ve been seeing Nimoy almost all week on shows because of the promotion for the new Star Trek...

Do you remember the exact moment when Dick Cheney earned the moniker ‘Darth Cheney’? On September 16, 2001, Vice President Cheney appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and talked about what it will take to deal with...