By Paul Street *Opening comments in a debate with John K. Wilson, a former Barack Obama student and author of the book President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Paradigm, 2009) The debate, held by The Open Univesity of the Left in Chicago on Thursday, August 27th, 2009, was titled, “Is Barack Obama A Progressive?” [...]
By Jerry D. Rose President Barack Obama and his family are vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard off Cape Cod, but it seems that a President never stops doing his “job” even when on his vacation. The golf course is a perennial venue (along with hunting parties in some cultures) in which “leisure” pursuits provide a relaxed [...]
By Jerry D. Rose On August 19, 2009 Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, published in the Washington Post an op-ed column, “Rage the Left Should Use,” in which he posed the question of the appropriate focus of Main Street “rage” at Wall Street domination of U.S. government shown in such disappointing developments as [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Although I wouldn’t mind having a new car, my “clunker” doesn’t quite qualify for the cash for clunkers voucher. Sure, she’s old enough, a 2000 Toyota Camry, but she still gets about 30 mpg and doesn’t qualify as a gas-guzzler. Oh well, I have another idea, how about “Rags for Cash?” [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Black minstrel parodies on the lives of African-Americans, once called “nigger minstrels” were originated in America in the 1830s and were still going as I was growing up a hundred years later in rural southern Oklahoma. These were traveling “musicals” featuring stories, songs and dancing that displayed, for the benefit of [...]
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