A Cherokee View of High Finance
Being Chapter 2 of The Sixkiller Chronicles, most of which were first published in Indian Country Today, and which will someday get collected if I get "discovered." Given what "discovery" has meant for...
View ArticleThe 2010 Elections According to Ray Sixkiller
Wherein, the redoubtable Cherokee savant discovers the Tea Party. Chapter the third of The Sixkiller Chronicles.
View ArticleHow Lincoln's and TR's Party Died
I preface these remarks with the disclaimer that I'm no longer a Democrat. I cannot co-exist with the Blue Dogs, who refused to pass Obama's programs and made Obama take the heat without a fair...
View ArticleQuestion for Kossacks
I should start by saying I don't understand a lot of the mechanics of this site. Now it's suggested that I don't understand the politics, either.I just posted a diary explaining why I no longer ID as...
View ArticleThe Half-Life of Indians
By popular demand....er, that is, one person asked me....I post an interaction with Cousin Ray Sixkiller from back when the Fukushima nuclear reactor had just melted down...and so had the Indiana...
View ArticlePolitics and Lost Marbles
Wherein Ray Sixkiller surveyed the GOP field in light of the presidential debates...and had a few things to say.
View ArticleHabemus Papam
I've been fortunate to have an op-ed gig somewhere all my adult life, so naturally I do make a practice of looking back to see whether I got things right. I also recycle things when I can.This column...
View ArticleAlias: Malala Yousafzai
This one is recycled in recognition of the speech that happened in the United Nations yesterday.It's a damn shame when the cause of education has to be a literal fight, a bloody battle with children in...
View ArticleTruth for Sale, Cheap
There's a deep legal tradition in the US that courts do not fool with "legislative findings."The theory of this is that legislatures can investigate and investigation is within their writ. They have...
View ArticleThe Parable of Seamus
Wherefore, Cousin Ray Sixkiller, under extreme duress, determined he would not vote Republican in the last presidential election.And this is a guy who still hates Andy Jackson so much he won't put...
View ArticleOne Judge's Answer to Drunken Driving Deaths
In 1966, I was driving back from my port leave before my scheduled year of vacation in sunny Vietnam when I met a drunken driver proceeding up the Interstate in the wrong direction. He died on the...
View ArticleRetirement as a Search for the Golden Mean
My wife and I addressed the issue of retirement during the depths of the George W. Bush years and we had little stomach for perpetual war, much of which was waged upon freedoms to which we had grown...
View ArticleCreating Equal Persons
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
View ArticleCorporate Crime in the Transnational Matrix, Part I
Inside The Matrix, Morpheus, named for the god of sleep, offers Neo the blue pill or the red one, reality as Neo has understood it or reality as Neo might come to understand it. Choosing the red pill,...
View ArticleCorporate Crime in the Transnational Matrix, Part II
Part II of a refereed article that originally appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. It is lightly re-edited and stripped of footnotes and references. If there is popular...
View ArticleCorporate Crime in the Transnational Matrix, Part III and Conclusion
This is part III of III. I said in part II that I would post the references if there were "popular demand." Parts I and II have been met with such deafening silence that I'm only finishing the text...
View ArticleWhite Power Day in the SCOTUS, Part I of III
June 25, 2013, was a great day to be white in the United States. In one day, the Supreme Court pulled the teeth of two laws with an excellent track record of providing remedies for racial...
View ArticleMiddle Class Complaint
Bourgeois in that if this is the worst inconvenience you have, then you are, in the words of my late and dear friend John Henry Faulk, "choppin' tall cotton."My younger daughter taught me that if you...
View ArticleWhite Power Day in the SCOTUS, Part II of III
Cases involving child custody are always middle class morality plays. I am reminded of the time I had trouble getting a routine, uncontested step-parent adoption done in the county where I now reside,...
View ArticleOne Indian's View of the President on July 19, 2013
I am so proud of MY President today when he had the courage to say, essentially, "I am Trayvon Martin."Yes, I know it will cause him to bleed what political capital he has and therefore issues I care...
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