Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept
“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)
“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)
At the end of March, with the Iran war entering its second month and the casualty count already climbing, I attended the No Kings protest in Austin looking for veterans. I found plenty of them. After the piece ran at Slate I heard from several others who weren‘t at the protest but wanted to add…
We can afford a billion dollars a day for another war in the Middle East, but making sure a working mother can take her sick kid to the doctor? That’s where we draw the line on fiscal responsibility.
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http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/49404575 Chaos Section’s own Adam House stopped in Philadelphia on the way back from PorcFest for an adventure into Mike Salvi’s World….
There are a few issues that are near and dear to my heart. One of them is my love and support of US military veterans, especially those who have served in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. It has become my life mission to help my brothers who suffer from the oftentimes debilitating effects…
Benefits earned in an employment contract are denied based on ‘misbehavior’ by war-fighters whose fulfilled delivery on their end of the bargain leaves them with medical problems that will haunt them the rest of their lives, and the United Stated government is playing deceitful and corrupt games to find excuses for not fulfilling their end…