Don’t Put Your Hope in the U.S. Supreme Court – It is a Reactionary Choke Point for Social Reform
“I do not forget the position assumed by some,” the new president declared to an expectant, anxious throng assembled in…
Category: Literature
The Midwife for the Imperial Presidency—Theodore Roosevelt
By accident Theodore Roosevelt became President in September 1901, upon the assassination of President William McKinley. Having achieved his lifelong…
Dwight Eisenhower: The Peace President Who Refused to Use the Atomic Bomb
When he became President in 1953, like George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant before him, Dwight Eisenhower (“Ike”) was an…
The President Who Destroyed the Klan: Ulysses S. Grant, An Unappreciated and Undervalued Leader
While President, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed the terrorizing Ku Klux Klan to protect the lives of the freed former slaves.…
INSIDE THE JEWELRY BOX: Kristina Marie Darling’s “Melancholia (An Essay)”
“To wake from a dream—to begin a series of portraits instead” ~ Kristina Marie…
Review: Mounting Evidence by Dr. Paul Rea
“Although this rendering reflects serious sleuthing, what you’ll find here is less a research treatise than a detective mystery in…
Going Haywire: A Review
Darkness. It’s what we crave, what we need, and what we cannot turn away. Dive deep into the human soul,…
Play
Play Pounding. Pounding. Pounding. A shrill squeak, Quick go! Body springs forward Don’t think now, do. Pounding faster, pounding, pounding…
REVIEW: Home by Toni Morison
Home Toni Morison, 145 pp. Alfred A. Knoph Frank Money is not the first fictional war veteran to come home…
Living with Rats and Other Poems
Living with Rats They’re sneaky, quick, stealth, like a robber. Like a world-class So I hold a broomstick thief. Climb…