by jpitney | Mar 28, 2021 | Civil Rights, Democratic Primaries, First Amendment, Patriotism, Public Opinion
At The Liberal Patriot, Ruy Teixeira notes widely-held beliefs that pose challenges for progressive Democrats. Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle; equality of outcome is not. America is not perfect but it is good to be patriotic and proud of...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2021 | Civil Rights, Race
The Tulsa World reports that Senator. James Lankford apologized to Black Tulsans on Thursday for not recognizing that his involvement in questioning presidential election results would offend them. Ok
by jpitney | Aug 16, 2020 | Civil Rights, Constitution, Deliberation
General James Mattis: America is not some finished work or failed project but an ongoing experiment. And it is an experiment that, by design, will never end. If parts of the machine are broken, then the responsibility of citizens is to fix the machine—not throw it...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2020 | Civil Rights
Farhat Popal and Christopher Walsh at the George W. Bush Presidential Center: Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders grew so bad in the early days of the coronavirus that the Asian Pacific Policy Planning Council launched a website to track them. In...
by jpitney | Aug 6, 2020 | Civil Rights, Civility, Presidency
Daniel Stid: It turns out that Lewis had not come to George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2001 either. But that didn’t keep Bush from going to and offering a heartfelt eulogy at Lewis’s funeral in which the former President noted, “John and I had our...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2020 | Civil Rights, Disabilities
President George H.W. Bush on signing the Americans with Disabilities Act, 30 years ago today: Our success with this act proves that we are keeping faith with the spirit of our courageous forefathers who wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these...
