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Veteran Ernest Walker posted a video of a Cedar Hill, Texas Chili’s manager taking his food from him. What made this especially egregious was that the Army veteran was enjoying the meal as a part of Chili’s free Veteran’s Day meal. The video went...

Read, share and fight like hell.   We are there people, we are there.  ratical.org/… Powerful and Continuing Nationalism  Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia....

Have you ever seen someone being publicly harassed by haters? I hadn’t...before this week. Looks like I’ll have to get better prepared for dealing with it. Thursday night after work I stopped to get gas at a busy intersection. Earlier in the day...

A chilling encounter with a German student left me shaking... As a part-time Boston Uber/Lyft driver, conversing with the many international students filling our many colleges and universities can sometimes proved quite the eye-opener. But no...

For decades the Republicans have fought us, often successfully, with wedge issues. They started with the race wedge (after Dixiecrats joined the Republican party). Republican strategist Lee Atwater perfected race as a wedge so that it would sound less...

I am a bit rusty with diaries so bear with me please.  This seems like a very important article from a nuts and bolt strategy for us individually and collectively to survive Trump. I’d like to plop it on the desk of every Democrat in Congress. The...

I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. It might be worth considering them...

San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich was pressed in an interview to share his thoughts on the election of Republican Donald Trump. Once the politically vocal basketball coach began, he seemed to hold nothing back. He starts off talking about his shame for...

When someone you love dies, you don't take it in all at once. You don't know immediately "this is how my life will be going forward." You feel your way a step at a time, in one moment forgetting and