American history includes a sorry chapter called the Prohibition Era. During it, the law against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was loosely enforced or not enforced at all with attendant bribes to the authorities to look the other way. The consequence was an entire illegal industry sprang up organized and ruled by gangs […]

Playing the provocative card of “class warfare” is a totally disingenuous monkey wrench thrown from the Right into our already polarized economics. Class warfare has always been waged best from the top down, and all too successfully punishing to those struggling to just get by. Most Americans simply keep their head down and try to […]

Why do Republicans nauseatingly refuse to address America’s gun murder epidemic? Why are they so determined to sustain our well-earned reputation as the most violent nation in the civilized western world? Why are they jerking their knees in reflexive opposition to President Obama’s modest attempts to defend our right to remain alive? Of course we […]

Today is Thursday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2016. There are 359 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 7, 1789, America held its first presidential election as voters chose electors who, a month later, selected George Washington to be the nation’s first chief executive. On this date: In 1610, […]