Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0.
Barbara Lee’s lone vote for...
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Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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24 May 2023
“Go back to where you came from.”
This is basic American politics – what I might call spiritual ignorance: a dismissal of refugees fleeing war, famine...
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“. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .”
These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. They emanate a cutting glow, a crying...
11 May 2023
More mass killings. More bloody “normal” — not just in Texas, not just in the United States, but around the world.
Eerily, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...
04 May 2023
Hey China, quit threatening us! We’ll kick your ass.
Yeah, bad China, maybe worse than Russia, e.g.:
“The People’s Republic of China, which is...
26 April 2023
Can we form a circle big enough to fit 330 million Americans? Do we have enough folding chairs? I don’t know, but somehow we’ve got to launch a national...