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Bruce is 46 year-old father of one, stepfather of three and grandfather of two, who left a lucrative law practice at a large national law firm to work, advocate and write for social justice and equality and find a way to incorporate a spiritual life into the material world. He now struggles along to make a decent living while holding true to his deepest principles in Portland Oregon.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 30, 2007 WE ARE ALL THE LEAST AMONG US
With Bush denying health care to poor children while cutting taxes for the rich and funding war for energy, here is a meditation on the political imperative of assessing our leader's humanity the way Jesus advised he would assess his followers: By the way they acted toward the least among them.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 10, 2011 Person Corporatehood
We are being trained to become more like corporations even as they are being handed our rights.
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 9, 2008 What Would We Do To Jesus
Todays' right wing political Christians would not recognize Jesus if he walked up and kissed them on the forehead.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Palin and the Christian Persecution Syndrome
Using discussion of Palin's religion, and especially her daughter's pregnancy, to rally Christians to vote against their liberal attackers
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 1, 2008 The Lost Art of Graciousness
When did graciousness become weakness and mocking derision become strength?
SHARE Thursday, October 9, 2008 Friends with Reagan; Pals With Terrorist?
The list of prominent business people, educators and Republicans on the Board of Directors with Barack Obama and bill Ayers should embarass McCain and Palin . . . . I said "should".
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 6, 2009 Sotomayor and the White Reverse Racist Judges
The corporate and right-wing media don't want you to know that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is accused of reverse discrimination in the New Haven fire-fighter case even though the case was equally decided and upheld by white judges.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 10, 2007 Its Called Passive Suicide
Only this time its being contempated for an entire nation (ours, by attacking Iran)
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 7, 2008 We Won't Even See it Coming
A prose poem on the rage of the masses and their feared (or is it hoped-for by now?) uprising. With the important last line included this time!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 The War Powers of Congress
Contrary to conventional thinking, Congressional excuses and Presidential and media blather, Congress has tremendous Constitutional power to impact the Iraq war and stop the "surge." Its set out here. Stop letting them get away with pretending they don't.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2007 The REAL Reason Bush and Cheney Will Not Face Impeachment
The elitist corporate shills in Congress will never move to embarrass the elitist corporate shill in the White House. Clinton was a mild threat to corporate dominionists (think Mussolini's definitions here); Bush/Cheney are their wet dream.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 19, 2007 Rove's Thorough Electoral Mediocrity
Forget about all the deep political analysis and accurate invective, from 1994 to 2007, even Rove's main claim to fame, his electoral record, actually sucks. A former Texan explains.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 10, 2011 Prepare For The Next Backlash
Republicans are likely to react to recent losses around some of their favorite issues with even more aggressive voter repression
(24 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 30, 2007 I Know Where All The Young (non)Protestors Are
Where are all the young protestors as their nation is collapsing? Open your eyes and you will see; and then wipe your eyes when it hits you.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 25, 2007 Supreme Corp.: Limiting Punitive Damages When Corporations Kill
The United States Constitution, former protector of individual rights, is again adapted to protect massive accumulations of wealth in non-human legal fictions called corporations. Fair warning: contains some, but not too much, legalese.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2008 A Poem To Feel The War
Because our government censors the reality of war from us, we must rely on our own imagination to understand the true suffering in Iraq and Gaza and Afghanistan and . . . . If we do not face and try to feel the pain we cause, we can never generate the empathy needed to stop this and all other and future wars.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 The Hope of Spirit-Fueled Social Action
The truest hope for our age is co-creation of a compassionate political world using the power of spirit and the irresistibility of love. All that is needed for good to prevail is for good people to get off the fence and take action -- political and social action.
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 29, 2008 Jesus Weeps
And so does every teacher of love and peace who ever walked the earth. A tiny accounting of some of the appalling but unstated collective decisions underlying the horrifying condition of our humanity.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 5, 2007 WAR IS NOT A GAME, So Quit Talking Like It Is
Progressive media and leaders must cease discussing the Iraq war in terms of "winning" or "losing"; "doubling down" or "gambling." Using this language wrongly links wars to games, and makes it harder to convey the true horror of the Iraq War. War is hell; not a game. We need to stop using the language of games and start using the language of the serious failure of humanity the Iraq War really is.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2007 Marx Helps Explain Cheney
Karl Marx is one of the most prescient liberal political and economic philosophers who ever lived. This article uses Marx's theories to explain how and why Dick Cheney is so boldly proclaiming himself King.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 9, 2008 On (Not) Being Taken For Granted
The only way Democrats could take the nomination from Obama and give it to Clinton would be to take the real Democratic base for granted. Let's make sure they know they cannot.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2008 Dear Democratic Party: Please Don't Become Racist
ANY talk of denying Barack Obamba the Democratic nomination because working class whites won't vote for a black man is racist. Stop it and squash it. Now.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 13, 2008 The Day A Brilliant Man And A Bad Man Both Told The Truth
America ended when a brilliant man told a powerful truth and the powers that be were outraged and shocked and when the most powerful man in the world, a bad man, confessed to a war crime no one cared.
SHARE Sunday, November 4, 2007 SHOCKING!! PAKISTAN'S MILITARY RULER IMPOSES MILITARY RULE! (AND WE DO NOTHING).
The administration seeks in the Middle East and South Asia solely and exclusively to impose its will for its purposes regardless of the will of most of the citizens and regardless of the overall public good of the people. That is only democracy to the extent they believe it is democracy at home as well. Bad news, folks; really bad news.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2007 Slyly Stealing Sovereignty From The People
In arguing there is no right to Habeas Corpus, was Alberto Gonzles betraying a deeper administrative ideology against inherent rights and popular sovereignty?
SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 A Crisis Like No Other!
Have we really come to this? Wars, famine, global warming, unaffordable food and fuel. And the news is covers what a reverend said and a politician did or did not say.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 31, 2008 Jesus Marches On
A follow up to Jesus Weeps. We must grieve the suffering our nation has caused, but we must hold to hope for healing and change. And most importantly we must act to bring change. The basis for hope and an outline for change here. A third part on detailed action suggestions to follow.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2008 A Rant on Democrats Selling Out
On the depravity of arguing the entire future of a vast, diverse Republic hangs solely on appealing to less educated, older, lower income, white, blue collar workers of the Appalachian spine.
SHARE Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Working Harder To Make The Rich Richer
New data shows Americans are the most productive workers mainly because we work so much more, but wages are flat. Data also shows our CEO's make three times more than European CEO's. We work more to make our richer richer. Period. I know you know, but read the details and weep.
(17 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 23, 2007 Say Goodbye To America
Nearly three-quarters of the United States Senate just passed a resolution condemning the Move On ad against the Petraeus report. In doing so, they began the elimination of free political speech and took the final step to fascism. We are there now and we are no longer a constitutional polity.
SHARE Monday, February 19, 2007 The Will To Be Bound Is All We Really Have
In a government based on principles, the will to remain bound to them is all that protects the people's rights. Our government is losing (or has lost) its will-ingness. Do we have the will to insist they honor our social compact?
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2007 Betrayal (Or How The 2007 Democrats Are Losing Democracy)
After promising so much and so raising hopes, if the Democrats lose their new and renewed 2006 suporters, we really could lose what's left of democracy.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 15, 2007 SHOCKER OF ALL SHOCKERS!!!!!
IRAQI PARLAIMENT, AMID DISASTROUS WAR, TAKES OFF AUGUST, (EXACT SAME MONTH AS US CONGRESS, AMID EXACT SAME DISASTROUS WAR, PLUS ONE, TAKES OFF)