Obama : Real Change RE the War on Drugs , Prison reform, et al

His Change mantra answered an urgent plea,  an upwelling from the springs of a repressed and  pronounced need for comprehensive social reform.  He will not be a smoke and mirrors president. "Drug policy reformers of every stripe are abuzz. They recognize,...

Now bad begins and worse is left behind...

OK,  where to begin?  Obama knew the implicit conflict and seeds of chaos within his platform of change;  he will stand undaunted.  Although the right is declaring his battle over ObamaCare all but lost,  I think he is shifting his rhetoric in...

Recalling Warnings about Obama during the primaries

Amidst increasing criticism,  Obama holds his own.  Neither  nay-sayers nor the gates of hell will  prevail against him. This quote from a recent blog post,  by an exasperated Democrat, vexed over the Town Hall meetings chaos,  made me...

UNI /Under New Influence

The late Andrew John Kovalinsky (1952-2006) developed a youth program under the Clinton Administration.  It was overridden by the Partnership for a Drug Free America's Above the Influence.  Kovalinsky had hoped to form a network of influence in which businesses...

Birth Certificate Meme lives on and on, but in vain?

The controversey rages on,  but the cause is already lost. There seems to be no killing off the "birth certificate meme":  that idee fixe  which among some has swelled into a powerful and daunting obsession.  The logic runs something like this:...

NARTH Charges APA with being unscientific

Recently,  the American Psychological Association adopted a resolution,  which discourages practicioners from advising reparative therapy for homosexuality.  Since 1973,  the APA has dismissed...

Fanning the flames of hysteria: Talk of Obama's Internment Camps

The fringe right are at it again,   with a new zeal and a sense of renewed purpose:  They are hell-bent on spreading the word that President Obama et al  are quietly building internment camps,  to which hordes of Americans will soon be herded,  if...

Misandry due for a fall

It is no secret that the second wave of feminism  -  what I like to call "hyper-feminism",  and what Christina Hoff Sommers,  author of Who Stole Feminism?  (1995)   calls,  "gender feminism"  -  has been guilty of a...

Too much involvement of police and courts for too long

I have been bothered by this issue for quite some time,  but in general,  I do not find it addressed;  not in mainstream media, in any case.    First of all,  I have a basic respect for police,  for courts of law,  and for law and...

PK Dick , Anarch Peake , and Anthony Peake

Phillip K Dick,  high brow science fiction writer,  gnostic mystic,  futurist,  and philosopher.   In Counter Clock World,  his fictional character 'Anarch Peak' made his appearance.  A precursor in name and deeds to Anthony Peake?...

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