The Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi invites a white liberal New England Senator to speak at an economic town hall on the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther Kings, Jr. Some African-Americans in Jackson objected to the invitation saying that it was just the White Senator’s typical town hall meeting with an MLK label put …
On Wednesday morning Laura Ingraham released the following gleeful tweet mocking Parkland student David Hogg: David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018 She was promptly denounced for the statement, …
The U.S.Irish-American population of 34.5 million is seven times greater than the population of Ireland itself which is a mere 4.68 million. On St. Patrick’s Day, its worth remembering why the Irish came to America and their early experiences in their adopted land. Why They Left Queen Elizabeth I conquered Ireland in 1603 and it …
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 60th Southern California Journalism Awards and I am pleased to be included for the 13th Consecutive Year with my 23rd and 24th nomination. Winners will be announced at a June 24, 2018 gala that will honor NBC’s Lester Holt and jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. … Continue reading
Time to Question “The Internet of Hal” The Facebook Scandal and the Dawn of Internet Skepticism This year the web will reach a major milestone as more than half of the world’s population will be online. Worldwide web founder Tim Berners-Lee announced this on the web’s 29th birthday in March, while questioning “are we sure … Continue reading
Today marks the 25th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day. As UNESCO explains, The theme chosen for this year’s World Press Freedom Day is “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law.” It explores the interaction between the judiciary and the media, and their complementary roles in fostering transparency, accountability and … Continue reading
Meet LeeAnne Walters, a mother of four in Flint, Michigan, who took action when she noticed her family getting rashes, losing hair and suffering illness following the city’s decision to switch the water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River in April 2014. Walters reported the problem to the city which did not test … Continue reading
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in America are older the nation itself, although not entirely in the same form as today. I’m pretty sure George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did not complain about green beer and shamrock shakes. Records indicate St. Patrick’s Day was first celebrated in the “New World” as early as 1600 in St … Continue reading
The current tempest engulfing Washington involves a memo prepared at the direction of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) concerning a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant for Carter Page. Who is Devin Nunes? Nunes is an eight-term Republican Congressman from California’s San Joaquin Valley, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee which is conducting an investigation … Continue reading
New York Times’ White House correspondent Mark Landler has written a very important assessment of President Trump’s first year in foreign policy entitled: Trump’s Way: Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks With 70 Years of American Foreign Policy. Here are six key takeaways from this assessment of an uninformed amateur blundering his way through the world. Trump … Continue reading
THE GOP TAX BILL TREATS PUERTO RICO LIKE A FOREIGN TERRITORY AND WILL DEVASTATE ITS ECONOMY Puerto Rico is already hurting and the Republican tax bill is going to make it worse pic.twitter.com/ghrFyDZ3fl — NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 19, 2017 From Mother Jones: The tax bill, as written, would include taxes on payments between US companies and their … Continue reading
Below are a few resources outlining how President Trump’s removing climate change as a national security threat is contrary to the view of the Pentagon and Congress and ignores the link between climate change and terrorism, the refugee crisis and food security. Trump’s Continued Recklessness on Climate Change While military commanders consider climate change a … Continue reading
The fact that the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem breaks with 60 years of U.S. policy; has caused the U.S. to put troops on alert and warn Americans traveling abroad, and is opposed by our allies worldwide; tells you everything you need to know. It … Continue reading
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On November 2nd, Gothamist along with LAist and other city-centric blogs were shut down by its owner Joe Ricketts/DNAinfo one week after employees in New York voted to join the Writers Guild East. The future of local news remains deeply uncertain. It was a political decision of the owner to close his Gothamist, LAist, Chicagoist, … Continue reading
The latest KelleyGram is out: November 27, 2017 This KelleyGram features four topics from my latest works. In the interest of brevity, I have included excerpts and not the full-text of each as I have in the past. I encourage you to explore the links to read the articles in full and share them accordingly. … Continue reading
Why FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is CLBR’s Zero of the Year For the past several years, the web radio program I host (Cyber Law & Business Report) has had a year-end “Heroes and Zeros” show in which we assemble a panel to highlight those doing wonderful things on the internet and those deserving a cyber … Continue reading
The Clinton Legacy at 25: A Record of Accomplishment Despite Revisionist Attacks This month marks the 25th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s winning the White House in 1992. People often forget where the Democrats stood before Clinton. Democrats had been out of power for 20 of the last 24 years and the sole Democrat to hold … Continue reading
The GOP’s War on America: From the Reagan Revolution to the Hijacking of American Government The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was a turning point in our history and brought into government a phalanx of ideological conservatives. Reagan’s foot soldiers would be the Generals in the Gingrich Revolution a decade later, as Republicans took … Continue reading
March 19 John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, whose account is hacked after he opens a link in his email. Podesta’s emails would then be released by WikiLeaks on the same day the Obama administration issues a formal statement blaming Russia for election interference. April 27 Trump gives a speech at the Mayflower Hotel … Continue reading
Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, has been brought to its knees by flooding from Hurricane/Tropic Storm Harvey. Below are some of the amazing images of the massive devastation. What is most alarming, however, is that this is only the mid-point of the crisis, as another 20 or more inches are due to fall on the … Continue reading
Last week I wrote about the need to build on the outrage over Charlottesville and President Trump’s total failure in moral leadership, to make Heather Heyer’s death a turning point in the fight against intolerance in America. I explained: While denunciation of white supremacist is important, equally important is moving the country in the opposite … Continue reading
In Brief features pull together content from multiple sources to provide an overview on a topic. This segment is on President Trump’s many conflicts of interests. See Sunlight Foundation’s Ongoing List of Trump Conflict of Interest. CONSIDER THIS: The Trump family’s endless conflicts of interest. Chapter and Verse https://t.co/8TQZNi733T pic.twitter.com/oUf2s8OgIi — Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 3, 2017 … Continue reading
