Keith Cooper

The End of the Innocence

I’m no puritan, but l have a theory that part of the current social climate of extremism and discord can be traced to a sort of decay in our culture. I’m not talking about the culture war to which Rush Limbaugh and his right wing media colleagues refer when they are seeking to gin up …

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Micah and the Snake

So, I had a strange dream that stuck with me until after I woke. I was riding a public bus. At one point in the dream, Rev. Rich Rose was on the bus talking of Micah and telling of “Micah and the snake”. This was a story I was dubious about. I had never read …

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Cowardice to the End

Rush Limbaugh has shown that he will breathe his last breath in the way that he has been spending most of the last several years: cowering behind his so-called golden microphone and feeding hate and rage and fear with red meat from his seemingly bottomless bag of lies. He currently is carefully shrouding everything he …

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In Justice We Trust

Not only was the attack on our Nation’s Capital a wake up call to the fragility of our democracy. It was a clear picture of the inequity of law enforcement in America. There is nothing unique about this statement, In the past few weeks numerous people in the media and in kitchens and living rooms …

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A New Year

I’m not one of those people who look forward to the new year as a major milestone. l don’t view it as some symbolic rebirth. I don’t countdown the hours and days to January 1. I don’t makeresolutions. I don’t hang my hopes on expectations of some fantasy future. But this year it is different. …

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The Twitterbug

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The Shaming of Labor

More disturbing than the systematic assault on the working class by the establishment and political factions was the increasingly negative attitude among the populous toward the working class and working poor. As the wealth gap continued to expand at an embarrassing rate more and more workers, feeling the pain of stagnated wages and rising costs, …

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