Mar 23, 2013 | Extremism, mic, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues, Terrorism
Published: mic (March 23, 2013), The Express Times (March 23, 2013) From neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers, there is nothing more inherently pathetic than a bigot in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This isn't to say that bigots aren't a pitiful sight as a general rule. As the philosopher Eric Hoffer noted in his classic monograph on mass movements and...
Aug 29, 2012 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Immigration, Media Issues, mic, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012) If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention: The controversy should have been over the type of partisan parliamentary maneuvers that normally define such major political gatherings, as Ron Paul...
Oct 3, 2011 | Education, History, Pennsylvania, Race and Racism
Published: The Express Times (October 3, 2011) Can you identify the source of this quote? “We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” If you can’t, don’t worry. Not even today’s high school students are expected to know that it came from the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of...