VOICES

GUEST COMMENTARY - In 1936 at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, Franklin Delano Roosevelt told a cheering crowd that the only way to redeem the country from the Great Depression was by defeating the “economic royalists” who controlled the economy and sought “control over government itself.”

ROE V WADE - “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’” — Genesis 2:18. RSV

ONE MORE THING - We are in the midst of Primaries and even though the emphasis on the Supreme Court leak is not the lead story for the media anymore, it hasn’t disappeared.  

THE VIEW FROM HERE - “In a week, American voters can do to white nationalists what they fear most.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Long before a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion revealed that by summer Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, only pregnant people bore the burden of pregnancy—not just physically, but also financially.

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - Minority rule is killing America.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I only echo the voices of thousands who sounded the alarm before me, but then again it cannot be said enough.

SCOTUS JUSTICE - When Supreme Court member Justice Samuel Alito's secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of women to end their pregnancies leaked out to the public, Republican politicos went ballistic! Over the leak, that is.

GUEST COMMENTARY - So said the late conservative journalist M Stanton Evans, It is commonplace, even among Republicans, to label the Republicans ‘the stupid party’, while lambasting the Democrats as ‘the evil party’.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE - Among the thousands of students graduating from San Diego State this weekend is one of California’s youngest and most unlikely philanthropists.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - We now know that Dylann Roof was an all-around tragedy. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - So, when does MSNBC talking head and former US Senate staffer and hit show West Wing writer-producer Lawrence O’Donnell call for a referendum to call a Constituent Assembly to re-write the 18th century aristo-republican charter that disastrously governs US politics and policy in the 21st Century United States?