The Times That Try Our Souls

Thu. Oct. 16th, 2014  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

The Dilemma That Violent Empires Don’t Know How to Deal With: Active, Non-violent Resistance to Evil

Don’t Vote for Your Future Oppressors

Thu. Oct. 23rd, 2014  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

In the heat of the campaigns, we misinformed, dis-informed and oft-deceived voters must be careful lest we blindly allow our future oppressors – and that includes our politician’s paymasters - to win at the polls.

Election Section

Thu. Oct. 30th, 2014

2014 Minnesota Elections - Reader endorsements

Lingering in Happiness

Thu. Nov. 6th, 2014  |  Emily Stone

We turned our faces toward the bluebird sky, closed eyelids against the brilliant sun, and soaked up its mid-afternoon warmth. Although the day was not especially warm, the whisper of a breeze let us keep every ray of the sun and every bit of heat

College Football Rolls On, Despite Ratings

Thu. Nov. 13th, 2014  |  John Gilbert

Playing down to legitimate college football championships create a wide-open climax to the season, whether Division 1, or 2 -- or, for that matter, 3. Focusing on Division 1 and 2, it is impossible to guess at the favorites for the championship

Citizens United and the Corporate Fat Cats Stole This Election

Thu. Nov. 13th, 2014  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

“In a country whose Supreme Court has straight-up legalized the outright purchase of elections by Corporate Fat Cats, how can the electorate possibly be shocked when the elections are outright purchased by Corporate Fat Cats?”

Exposing the secret corporate coup of our democratic elections

Thu. Nov. 20th, 2014

A big surprise in this year’s elections is that American politics has become dominated by the least likely of participants: Shy people. That’s strange, since running for office is an ego game, attracting those at ease with self-promotion

Rest in Peace, Tomas Young

Thu. Nov. 20th, 2014  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

That group of plutocrats regarded themselves as too big to fail, too big to impeach, too big to indict, and too big to imprison or punish. But Tomas Young knew that they met the definition of international war criminals

What Did You Do During the Dirty Wars, Daddy?

Thu. Dec. 4th, 2014  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

“Did you remain silent in the face of your nation’s war crimes when innocent, unarmed civilians on the ‘other side’ were being demonized, starved, bombed, poisoned, persecuted, imprisoned, ‘disappeared,’ made homeless, or becoming victims of ‘collat

Ferguson MO And The ST. Louis Rams…

Thu. Dec. 11th, 2014  |  Marc Elliott

WINTER HAVEN… If there is one symbol to emerge from the abyss of Ferguson that has remained in the public consciousness, it has to be that of the Ferguson protesters and the “Hands up—don’t shoot” gesture.