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More Innocent Blood Spilled by the Radical Right; Is there any going back?

When will enough be enough? A couple of days after the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre, I am sitting on the floor in a darkened classroom as the PA announces that we are in a lockdown. Normally teachers get notice of upcoming drills, and we had had no such warning. Directions come […]

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But we’re the greatest country on earth…and other lies.

The United States got caught again acting like a medieval king; you know, the guy who could make the rules but didn’t have to follow them?  As the Senate finally released a report documenting our despicable adventures into torture, all sorts of apologists have lined up to either defend the use of torture or to […]

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