When several international clothing firms boycotted cotton from Uzbekistan as a protest against the child labor they were using, the government instead drafted ordinary citizens including medical personnel such as surgeons and nurses. Every year during cotton picking season they are to report to the given rural areas and have to meet their quota: pick…

This presidential election campaign, as those in the past, is between two political parties, but this one seems to have something those in the past did not, acrimony, so much acrimony it is difficult to think of both parties as belonging to the same country. The campaigns have come to sound as if the two…

Unless one lives in Arkansas, it is doubtful one has heard of Rep. Jon Hubbard and former House member and candidate for the House Charles Fuqua. Hubbard wrote in a self published book that slavery was a blessing in disguise and that African Americans are better off than they would have been in they had…