Michael Dunn is a Florida man who stopped at a gas station after his son’s wedding.   Jordan Russell Davis was a 17-year old teenager,  at the same gas station, sitting in an SUV with three other teenage friends playing loud music.   Dunn and the teenagers got into a verbal argument...

Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee held a forum yesterday to discuss racial profiling and hate crimes in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting in Florida last month.   Since the matter remains under Florida’s jurisdiction, the forum functioned primarily as a gesture—an...

I had plans to write another piece.  Something funny or sarcastic about Republicans and how foolish they are these days. I have so much material from which to draw inspiration.  But I cannot.  I am heartbroken.   For the past couple of days I have an image and a name seared in my memory....