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A New Face on the ‘Creep Sheet’

How do you know you’ve finally arrived after being a member of a marginalized minority? You’re treated like a white guy. Welcome to the privileged world of white power, Rep. Diego Hernandez.  How do you like it? Hernandez (D-East Portland) is facing expulsion from the Oregon House of Representatives after a Conduct Committee recommended he […]

Trump: Tragedy, Farce, Comedy

“Do you think these people want to pick the carcass?” That was the question former President Richard Nixon reportedly asked a supporter after he had been impeached and was facing indictments. It’s not likely a question President Donald Trump is asking. He’s probably plotting his own revenge. While some Trump-haters want to see him sharing […]

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ White Lies

Some good news from the pandemic: “The 1619 Project” pushed by The New York Times has not turned into a drumbeat for slave reparations. Americans can no longer afford reparations. Even a Pulitzer Prize awarded this month for “The 1619 Project” was muted by COVID-19. The New York Times’ attempt to rewrite history is no […]

A Season of Hate and Prayer

The Salvation Army is praying for President Donald Trump. It isn’t working. “God is slow to answer sometimes,” explained Cheryl, who works in the Happy Valley, Ore., office of The Salvation Army. I usually send a check to The Salvation Army during the holiday season. On the back of the return form there is a […]

The Enemy of the Press

What a sorry spectacle to see America’s First Amendment-privileged press pleading their case to a public that has every right not to trust them. “We are not the enemy of the people,” Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of The Boston Globe’s editorial page, said in explaining her paper’s coordinated effort to have American newspapers editorialize […]

The Media’s Minstrel Show

Portland, Ore., wallows in guilt for being “the whitest big city in America” as if that were, in and of itself, a bad thing. Portland is actually something much worse: It is the most race-obsessed city in America. Thanks to the media – local and national – Portland can’t get over, won’t get over its […]

Our ‘Queer and Caramel’ Future

Gay Pride Month has started to resemble that song, “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” It’s a challenge for civil rights movements that have had success. How do you find new things to protest? You create new outrages. When a man named David Eugene Pierce, living as a woman named Gigi Eugene Pierce, was […]

A Tax Grab For the Neediest

Everybody’s still waiting for the man with a bag. We want stuff all year long, not only during the holidays. We all want more. We’ve got a trillion-dollar national deficit and personal credit card debt, also in the trillions, to show for it. One of the most whimsical – and saddest – sounds of America’s […]

‘Report From the Realm of Hell’

You can’t buy love, but in Portland, Ore. the city is throwing money at hate. “GRANT OPPORTUNITY! Stand up against hate and create a more welcoming community for all of Portlanders” says City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s website. The city of Portland is disbursing $350,000 in grants to organizations fighting hate. Hate is very big right […]

The Cocky World of Sophia June

When she was a little girl, her daddy probably called her “princess.” Or at least he treated her like one. She went off to her first day of kindergarten in clean clothes and a smile of anticipation, captured in a photo by a mother who loved her very much. Her father ran a construction company […]