The Detroit Riots – Part 2

Before the smoke settled from the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission to examine the outbreaks that had occurred with increasing frequency and to answer the following questions: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to keep it from happening again? Rather than providing the usual whitewashing … [Read more…]

Single-Payer Costs Less

Following is my response to an editorial in the Roanoke Times. It was published on Sunday. In your editorial on July 7 (“This year’s Little Rock”), you mentioned an increasingly discussed option for our medical care insurance as “an enormously expensive single-payer system.” Yes, a single-payer system is costly, as there is no inexpensive option. … [Read more…]

Indivisible to the Rescue

One of the most exciting and positive things happening in the political world is “Indivisible,” the new progressive opposition initiative. Last December, after the election of Donald Trump, four former congressional staffers put a document on-line to help mobilize citizens to resist Trump’s agenda of racism, authoritarianism, and corruption. Just as importantly the document provided … [Read more…]