EDITORIAL
The system is brokePoliticians in Massachusetts who plan to run for re-election are unlikely to discuss openly the high cost to the taxpayer of public employee unions, to be tabbed as anti-union in this state would be an insuperable political impediment. More » |
Individual effort neededOn "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, civil rights demonstrators were brutally attacked as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. In commemoration of the 45th anniversary of that event, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan went to Selma and promised to continue the struggle for equal educational opportunity. More » |
OPINION
Obama: "This is what change looks like"After nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America's workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they've worked a lifetime to achieve. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Haitian democracy punished in U.S.Haiti is a nation that was not only founded on the conquest for freedom, but also contributed toward the creation of the fifty states that comprise the United States today. It was the successful slave rebellion of Haiti that made the French flee and sell a large portion of their land to America in 1803. That deal was known as the Louisiana Purchase and it included land that ran through the middle of America from north to south. It also makes up to about a 25 percent of America and covers 13 states. More » |
