The Republican’s success, in the intentional blocking of gun control legislation, has some very significant ramifications for the Obama policy agenda. It was painful to watch our president have to publicly scold Congress for failing to do something the whole nation wanted and needed, gun control legislation. When you can shoot a Congresswoman, shoot up a theater and 20 elementary school children and you still can’t get legislation out of Congress, something is wrong with the system. Government is broken. It is too simplistic to just say it’s a faction of Congress thumbing its nose up at President Obama. It’s … Continue reading →

We send our prayers to the people of Boston, and the victims, of what our President called an “act of terror,” after two bombs exploded during Monday’s Boston Marathon. Tragedy, like terrorism, is colorless. We should have compassion for any and all persons in times of tragedy, and we should rebuke terrorism, in all its forms. The evil behind such an act, or responsible for any acts of terror, should be brought to justice. With God’s permission, they will be brought to justice, for no one has a greater sense of justice than God. But now the nation has again … Continue reading →

There are some things in our society that matter and need not be explained. We live in a society where we have forgotten about the things that matter. We find ourselves explaining things that shouldn’t have to be explained and paying attention to things that we should give absolutely no attention. Nonsense now makes the most sense in today’s and we give priority to things that are more irrelevant than relevant. Simply put, we—as a society—have lost sight of what matters. The things that matter most in our society, that allow us to co-exist, are the very things we’ve forgotten … Continue reading →

There has been another raging discussion to take place over the past couple months, the school to prison pipeline. How many different ways can we say that the absence of investment in America’s intellectual capital causes, even promotes, devastating social consequences? And how many different ways can we access the racial consequences of misapplied forms of social control? No, there are no more “white only” or “colored only” signs that causes society to suggest that we are a more racially homogenous society. Yes, we do come together on some levels today. The most common way in which we come together … Continue reading →

It’s been a month now since the Academy Awards, enough time to process why the most heralded movie since “The Twelve Commandments” didn’t command the type of recognition most thought it would. “Lincoln,” which will be released in DVD this week, was supposed to be the biggest thing since…Lincoln himself, didn’t quite measure up to the industry award expectations. Nor the public’s. It was a great movie. But it wasn’t true. It was a gross dramatization of a period in a man’s life. That’s it. Winning only two out of twelve Oscar nominations, “Lincoln” landed with a big THUD…even with … Continue reading →