Month: February 2011

Is blogging dead? Do you blog less than you used to? Are you spending the majority of your time using sites like Twitter and Facebook? I’ve tried to integrate social media with this site so I’m not stuck in 2005, but...

As recently presented in the New York Times, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.”  It is credited for empowering many actions...

I think President Obama is highly effective:  he is getting the most done that he can, given tremendous challenges, constraints and opposition.  He is fighting to keep his accomplishments in place and negotiating the...

It’s hard to credit every report out of Libya, but if even half of what is being reported is true, it looks very much like Muammar al-Gaddafi is soon going to be either hanging from a lamp post or flying to some luxurious...

On May 21, 1954, Jo Ann Robinson wrote to Montgomery Mayor W. A. Gayle on behalf of the Women’s Political Council.  Professor Robinson, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, taught at Alabama State, and was president of the...