Outrageous. I am sick. Illegal to feed people. The value and caliber of our society is falling hard and fast. If there is one thing I will always do, it is to escort a hungry person to an eatery and buy them food. Or reach in my shopping bag and share. Sometimes it only takes… Read More Don’t feed the animals
I laugh every time I hear conservatives praise the great Reagan. Obama has copied so much from him. Obama used to quote and credit Reagan in the beginning of the 2008 campaign. I noticed at the time, he stopped doing that. Under advice no doubt, because he thought it was a strong point for…
Reagan on Amnesty was originally published on It Matters
This is neither “anti-American” nor snobbery. It’s simply true. We live so far removed from other countries and across an ocean from almost all of them. “God created war so that Americans would learn geography” – Mark Twain Edited with BlogPad Pro
Bloomberg Businessweek What does a map have to do with a riot? Everything, in the case of Ferguson, Mo., where a police officer shot dead a black teenager, some residents looted and rioted, and police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. See video to understand St. Louis and Ferguson from a more tangible perspective: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/st-louis-urban-decay-ferguson-protests-89prJxAyT~GcxIusttJicA.html…
Ferguson Missouri 2014 mapping tragedy was originally published on It Matters
“It’s not about whether or not the shooter is a racist. It’s about how poor black boys are treated as problems well before we’re treated as people.”… Read More Ferguson Missouri 2014 core
“It’s not about whether or not the shooter is a racist. It’s about how poor black boys are treated as problems well before we’re treated as people.”
Ferguson Missouri 2014 core was originally published on It Matters
I found this both interesting and culturally informative. This is a great country indeed. Today’s map comes from Ben Blatt of Slate, who used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. He created several other language maps, too, including each state’s top Native American, Scandinavian, and African language.
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Art by Shepard Fairey * * * * * ANGELA DAVIS in The Meaning of Freedom. * * * * * “Beware of those leader and theorists who eloquently rage against white supremacy but identify black…
I hope that we will all take a look at the entire piece today. If you see only one thing about this historic date, I would hope that it will be the contents of this page. Skip the TV clips. Note that Dr. King was only 34 at the time. You will truly know and… Read More Dr. M.L. King’s Dream, have you seen, read or heard the entire piece?
This Thomas Nast cartoon, published in the November 20, 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly, celebrates the ethnic diversity and envisions the political equality of citizens of the American republic. Joining the Thanksgiving Day feast of hosts Uncle Sam (carving the turkey on the far-right) and Columbia (seated on the far-left) are Americans from all over the world: German,…
Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner – 1869 was originally published on It Matters
