Refugee Crisis: A Cry For Humanity

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Separated from the blank page since last my minor league ball club took to the diamond, I was awakened from my slumber this week by a shrill howl — one that resonated with vitriol and idiocy, as the loudest howls often do. How the human heart can hold such hate is something I’ll never comprehend.

How people can turn a blind eye to the suffering of multitudes is something wholly foreign to the human spirit and condition. But we have grown adept at working against our instincts and reverting back to those of our primate kin, complete with the teeth gnashing and chest pounding so prevalent in the wild.

As is well known to every person in the civilized world, Paris lost 129 innocent people Friday to bomb blasts and gunshots orchestrated by that primeval conglomerate known as Daesh. What anyone who calls themselves civilized or decent could not have forecasted is the cold reaction that supposedly evolved peoples have reverted to –the fear and hate directed at the millions of desperate people fleeing lands where this primitive organization has already taken hold.

Bernie Sanders: A Socialist In The White House?

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That the American left has fled from its liberal responsibilities is an inarguable fact. Like many Americans, I rushed to the polls (twice) to elect and re-elect President Barack Obama. Obama represented a change in this country that many liberals thought was long overdue — a man who stood for the working class, aspired to make healthcare available to all, took Wall Street and big business to task and supported a whole host of other leftist agenda items.

But today, that man is only a husk of the man I went to the polls for — his most recent failures being his support for the Patriot Act and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) — and I can’t fathom where this departure began. To be sure, Obama is a far cry better than anything the right has brought to the national scene in many years — Mitt Romney was an elitist fool, George W. Bush was inept and the current presidential hopefuls are slovenly business leaders, badly diluted fascists and religious extremists of the worst sort.

But no matter how bad the American right has become, it does not excuse the left from ignoring the plight of working men and women; it does not excuse them from cozying up to the same business dictators that they’ve claimed to stand against; it does not excuse them from taking part in the same idiosyncratic political business practices that their adversaries on the right have perfected over all these years. Thankfully, there is a class of true liberals coming up through the Washington ranks right now — specifically Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

Fried Felons: Alabama Death Penalty May Return To Electrocution

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Imagine, if you can, being strapped into a wooden contraption designed to send powerful electrical currents through your body, causing your veins to explode, your organs to melt and your feeble, broken frame to seize and shake uncontrollably … and then you die, your head still smoking from the electrodes hooked to the bald spot shaved into it, your limbs still trembling, mouth still frothing, the stench of burnt flesh permeating everything around you.

Apparently, to the so-called “pro-life” conservatives in Alabama’s House of Representatives, this scenario doesn’t sound too bad.

In fact, it sounds fantastic.