by Drick Boyd | Mar 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
This past week Pres. Barack Obama delivered a speech in Arizona in which he proposed that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System be strengthened so as to deny known felons the opportunity to purchase guns. Groups like Mayors Against Illegal Guns and...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have never been particularly strongly for or against unions. I knew that they had played an important role in creating a more humane workplace – 40 hour work week, child labor laws, work safety standards, Social Security, work benefits, and so on – but...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tunisia … Cairo … Jordan … Iran… Bahrain … and now Madison, Wisconsin. Something is happening around the globe in this age of instant telecommunication – there is an outbreak of democracy the likes of which have not been seen in a long time. Wisconsin Governor Scott...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
We tend to think dictatorships only exist in places like Tunisia and Egypt, and when the masses rise up and force the dictators out, we consider that to be a good thing. Well, there is a dictatorship in Philadelphia that is facing an uprising of its own, and as far as...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
NOTE: I received an email from my new Republican representative, Patrick Meehan, about his support of his party’s efforts to repeal the Health Care Reform bill passed last year under the guidance of Pres. Obama. His rationale was basically that the bill as it...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Over the past couple weeks I have been researching the gun industry in preparation for a workshop I will be doing in March on faith-based approaches to gun violence prevention. Through my research I keep bumping up against two realities in the ongoing debate between...
