Columns

Over the past four years, conservative activists have gone to desperate and often deranged lengths to implicate President Obama in some kind of scandal. 

I love Charlie Sheen. I know it's an odd statement to make given his current state, but I have since first seeing him in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Ever notice how breaks are always simultaneously too long and too short?  That's how this one felt.  It seemed like classes ended, then Christmas, New Year's, and now here we are, back again for more.  All in three short weeks.  I need a break to recover from my break.
 

Republicans who've shuddered at the notion of raising taxes on the super rich and cried foul with accusations of ‘class warfare' have ignored the steady disintegration of the American middle class and the ever-increasing divide between rich and poor.

Martin Luther King, Jr. has been in the public consciousness lately, and this is entirely appropriate as Monday, Jan. 21 is the day we celebrate his birthday.  
This year, his opinion on guns and gun control are of particular interest.  
Partisans on both sides invoke his name and legacy in an often vain attempt to add a measure of credibility to their argument.
While the notion of whose "side" King would take is certainly interesting to think about, maybe it's more effective if we let King's writings speak for themselves.