Gene Locke for Mayor

Above: I am displaying my work and campaign support for Gene in front of my Houston home.
It has been a number of years since I last took on an active role in local politics; I am working with the Gene Locke campaign for Mayor of Houston; I find this exciting because it gives me a [...]

Universal Health Care

What does equality mean? Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence purported that “all men are created equal.” However, he was not talking about blacks or the plight of the poor. Jefferson, though he permitted that his slaves be freed after his death, insisted on the matter that blacks were genetically inferior to whites. Furthermore, this international document [...]

Joe Wilson

I found this over at the Political Cartel. I guess Joe Wilson would approve of this. You can read the article there.

Religious Identity

I had my AP United States history classes read a piece from the America’s Journey text. I found this part very interesting on the perception of religiosity in America during the early 1990s. It reads:
The New York Times reported on ‘dozens of surprises’ contained  in an opinion poll on religious identification in America. The poll [...]

The Talk

The Warrior Round Table, a blog maintained by the headmaster at Little Rock Christian School and one that I have been reading for a while, recently drafted four reasons why they will not be viewing President Obama’s stream. You can read that post here. I am curious as to what other schools (public and private) [...]

Ted Kennedy

This is a cross post with the AHA:
In the wake of Senator Ted Kennedy’s death last week news agencies have taken a look back at his life and legacy, and the history of the whole Kennedy family. Read on for links to some of these articles.

Remembering Ted Kennedy through images
Take a look at Senator [...]

Just A Thought: President Carson

Hispanics & Politics Part 1:Obamanos

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Above: I observed this for the first time while headed towards Austin, Texas
“Obamanos” is a strange bit of political Spanglish, often seen in the past few months on bumper stickers in states with large Hispanic populations. The term translates — in essence, not literally — to “let’s go Obama.”
This has been the general spirit in [...]

Economic Thought

I am going crazy listening to conservative pundits pontificate about the troubled market and how the blame should “essentially” fall on all of those consumers who buy homes they cannot afford. They further contend that banks made poor decisions lending money to consumers at an unregulated and unadvised rate. But you never hear FOX news [...]

Debate at HCHS

For the second year, my friend and colleague Suzan Phenicie hosted a campus political debate. Phenicie, using the help of other faculty members, selected four students to participate in the debate. Phenicie, myself, and others including our department chair evaluated and modified a number of excellent debate questions submitted by students and members of the [...]

The Political Cartel on Obama

Great blog post over at the The Political Cartel. These bright current and former Harding University students evaluate Obama’s first term thus far. For those of you looking to blame the economy on a man who has not been in office 100 days, read this post here.

Aggressive Politics

 
AP – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information…  an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama’s executive order, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush [...]

What Might Malcolm X Say about Obama?

The day after November 4th, 2008 — I was walking my puppy (Abbey) around the block when I approached an older black man; I will never forget our conversation:
Older black man: “How are you, son?”
Carson: “It is a good day; it is a very good day.
Older black man: “Yes indeed. Yes indeed. It is a [...]

A Great Book I am Reading (A NYT Review)

I found The Age of American Unreason published in the New York Times Review of Books. I am really excited about this work and more than curious to see why historians are calling it the completion of intellectual thought unfinished by the late Richard Hofstadter. His The American Political Tradition is one of his most [...]

A Christian Democrat by Dillon Sorensen

Dillon Sorensen is a 10th grader and frequent contributer to The Proletarian; feel free to leave a comment for him regarding the post. Here is a previous post by Mr. Sorensen.
I attend a private Christian high school in Houston – creatively named Houston Christian High School. At HCHS, most of the students are white, wealthy, [...]

The American Socialist Tradition

Above: Recent Issue of Time. Obama as FDR.
In Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, he noted his philosophical contention by addressing his favor for FDR’s New Deal — the birth of American Socialism and the death of America’s puritanical notion of Rugged Individualism. Modern sociologists and economic theorist Max Weber wrote in The Protestant Ethic and [...]

God Does Not See Red States or Blue States…Just Faithful States

I came across this story from my favorite college teacher; I find this piece published in the Abilene Reporter disturbing for attacking the student paper at ACU (Abilene Christian University) In essence, this guy is saying God and rich people hate ACU for supporting Obama; does that mean He hates me too? I doubt it. [...]

A New Period

Outside my door (see above) I have a sticker that states “I Miss Bill” which I ceremoniously retired today. Bill was no liberal; I hope Obama will stay to the left and avoid the mistakes and the conservative political nature of Mr. Bill; however; I am excited that he will be more willing to listen [...]

Yes We Can Mr. President!!!

Reformation Day & Politics During Homecoming Week

Department colleague Casey Bourland and myself on Holloween/Reformation Day

Yearbook Staff member Cameron Coffey and Audrey Pederson enlightened my political leftist identity with a mask of “W.” Hey, why not sport the mask of a lame duck on campus.