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formerly Bronx Grit Chamber
Taxation with the barest minimum of representation.
Taxes are filed. Taxes were paid all year long from wages. Taxes represent a steady, if not the steadiest, income flow for the...
Mar 22, 2018


Black History is American History
In honor of black history month, i've put together some texts which simply spell out the horror of slavery and the ongoing problem of...
Mar 2, 2018

On Elitism
Eliminating performance standards & exams at Brooklyn Technical High School would be a disservice to talented students.
Mar 1, 2018

Black History Month after Charlotteville
What will it take for the distrust and hate to melt away. Or has it been melting away the whole time, just too slowly for anyone to see...
Feb 28, 2018

A little more complicated than Peter Minuit's $24 worth of wampum
On this day in 1643, the governor of New Netherlands took a tough-on-Indians approach and murdered hundreds of Munsee Indians in a...
Feb 26, 2018

#Blacklivesmatters
America has a confused popular view of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter had already been a source of confusion for those who call...
Feb 24, 2018

Trump: The view from the fan club
What is it about the man that makes him invincible in the eyes of his fans. Is it a desire to stay consistent with feelings and decisions...
Feb 24, 2018


Scapegoating
People ask me how can people be so misguided with respect to Trump's popularity on social media and at the polls. I believe the success...
Nov 24, 2017

Toronto Real Estate Market Crash
Hey Toronto! Time is running out for your chance to spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars more for a home than its underlying...
Jun 17, 2017

Trump tells us how it is
I like to go to the source material rather than rely on the interpretations of others. Read this and make up your own mind, Trump's job...
Mar 17, 2017

How did we get here
"Free" Trade brought profit to few and unemployment to many. The Washington Consensus left economics to the market and the citizens were...
Jan 26, 2017


Mexico's Missing Teachers
September 26, 2015 will mark the anniversary of last year's horrific crime perpetrated against the students of the Ayotzinapa teachers'...
Sep 25, 2015


Just like MacBeth
27 years ago popular leader Thomas Sankara was murdered, dismembered and buried in an unmarked grave. Sankara had attempted to steer his...
Nov 4, 2014

911
On September 11th, I think of all of the ordinary people who died at work, whether tragically as victims of murder or heroically as first...
Sep 11, 2013
Boris finally loses
Boris Berezovsky is dead, he stole billions from russia's automotive, aluminum companies and airlines. He helped the chechen rebels and...
Mar 28, 2013
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