March 20, 2008

OBAMA ON COLORS IN AMERICA

by Hector Alamo, Jr.
You've probably heard about Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia this past Tuesday. He was responding to the controversy surrounding a sermon given by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, in which Wright indignantly shouted from the pulpit, "God damn America" for its years of racial intolerance and its duplicity in healing the racial divide.

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March 17, 2008

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Contemporary Draft

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to their government and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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March 14, 2008

COME TOGETHER

by Hector
We're well into March, and the Republicans are doing what they do every election season...

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March 3, 2008

ALL THINGS EQUAL...

by Hector
The Two Beggars
I was sitting in the food court of Union Station downtown this past Monday eating a plate of bourbon chicken, fried rice and grilled potatoes I had just bought at Cajun Grill when I saw something that made me shake my head in disappointment.

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