Why I Am a Democrat
Hi, Everyone: I have lurked on this site since 2004, but I deliberately did not create an account because I already published a (now defunct) political blog (Kentucky Fried Politics) and a blog,...
View ArticleKentucky as a Purple State
I moved here in 1986 and made this my adopted state. I often read, including here at Daily Kos, that Kentucky is a "Red" (or Republican-dominated) state. "Wow. Isn't it amazing that Alison Lundergan...
View ArticleBreaking: Marriage Equality Advances in HI
Really brief. Not a proper diary. According to The Huffington Post marriage equality has passed out of state senate committee after 10 hours of debate. From here it goes to the full senate. Gov....
View ArticleRevolutionary Patience: Necessary Virtue for Our Time
In the 1980s, the German feminist liberation theologian, Dorothee Soelle, coined the term "revolutionary patience" to describe an attitude, a mindset, a complex virtue that I think is necessary for...
View ArticleKristallnacht at 75: A Warning for Our Day?
Today is the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."Throughout Germany in the early, pre-WWII, days of the Nazi era, on this night, Brownshirt thugs attacked Jews and vandalized...
View ArticleMy Liberal Principles
I've been trying to find a better way to tell friends, relatives, strangers, etc. why I am a liberal (U.S. definition). I thought it would be better if I could boil things down to a few clearly stated...
View ArticleIn Praise of Connected Social Critics
In Plato's Republic, Socrates tells the famous Allegory of the Cave in which enlightenment/knowledge of the truth is found by removal from society--leaving the cave. This begins a tradition in Western...
View ArticleOn Raising Anti-Racist Children in a Racist Society
I fully support the expulsion of the ringleaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon "bus of bigotry" at Oklahoma University. I do not agree with those who say that this is too harsh a punishment.However, some...
View ArticleAdventures in Green Homeownership
My family has always tried to be eco-friendly. When we were renters, there was only so much we could do. We could put a brick in the toilets, but not replace them with low-flow toilets.Thanks to the...
View ArticleToo Many DKos Folks are Overconfident
Okay, I've been around long enough to know that this brief diary is likely to get me labelled a "concern troll." But I can't help it. I think far too many here are underestimating the GOP clown car....
View ArticleThe Strange Career of RFRA
Today, in his ridiculous interview with George Stephanopoulos, Gov. Pence (R-Teabag) of Indiana tried to claim that the new IN "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" was not about discrimination against...
View ArticleWe Can and MUST Fight for LGBTQ folk AND Religious Liberty
When IN passed its warped version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which, unlike the federal RFRA and most state level RFRAs, was designed to target LGBTQ people (vulnerable because IN, like...
View ArticleCandidates for a Liberal POTUS Dream Cabinet: Secretary of State
Proposition: To move the USA in a more progressive direction will take not only "more and better" Democrats elected to every level of government, not only independent social movements harnassing people...
View ArticleAn Apology to Transgendered Persons
In a diary a few days ago "We Must Fight for LGBTQ Rights AND Religious Liberty," I did not proofread a comment I made. I meant to call laws that force transgendered persons to use the bathrooms of...
View ArticleThe Mitchell Hit Job
I am a Bernie Sanders supporter. I was an Obama supporter in the '08 primary against Clinton. But Andrea Mitchell's "interview" with Sec. Hillary Clinton was a hitjob. More below the orange thingy.
View ArticlePope Francis' Message to Congress: Mainstream Catholic Moral Theology
Hi, Folks. Disclaimer: I am not Catholic. I am a liberal Baptist Christian (married to a female Baptist minister) (Yes, we exist) who, as a former soldier turned pacifist, has been deeply influenced...
View ArticleAbolishing the Death Penalty in the USA
Abolishing the death penalty is the cause I've been involved with the longest--ever since mid-1970s when in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions as long as capital...
View ArticleI Voted for Bernie--and Now I Regret It.
I admit it, I felt the Bern. Now, at 54, I didn’t feel it like the starry-eyed youth that form the largest block of Sanders supporters. I never thought he was perfect (his weakness on gun control...
View ArticleEnough with the "Untrustworthy Hillary" Meme
Hillary Clinton is Trustworthy!I am sick of the “We can’t trust the Clintons, they’re corrupt” meme. The Clinton Foundation takes money from people around the world, but it uses it to feed people and...
View ArticleThe World is a More Dangerous Place Today
So, it has happened. “Brexit” won. The people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have voted (narrowly) to leave the European Union. It will take time to negotiate the actual...
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