Report: US Has One Of The Highest Child Poverty Rates In The Developed World

Report: US Has One Of The Highest Child Poverty Rates In The Developed World: pAccording to a new report from the Office of Research at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world. Of the 35 wealthy countries studied by UNICEF, only Romania has a child poverty rate higher than the 23 percent rate in the [...]/p

Obama’s Journey to Reshape Afghan War - NYTimes.com

Obama’s Journey to Reshape Afghan War - NYTimes.com

This is a very interesting take on the the evolution of Presideng Obama's thinking on both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Unlike his predecessor he has adjusted his goals and strategies based upon the information he was receiving from the field. He narrowed his goals and prepared and exit strategy.

John H. Armwood

Monument in Palisades Park, N.J. Honoring World War II Korean Comfort Women, Irritates Japanese Officials - NYTimes.com

Monument in Palisades Park, N.J., Irritates Japanese Officials - NYTimes.com

Japan needs to face up to it's history of imperialism and human rigjts abuses. It's dastardly crimes against the people of Asia are part of it's past. Unlike Germany, Japan was not forced by the victorious Allies after World War II to atone for it's crimes against humanity. This was largely due to the fear of Japan succumbing to the spreading wave of communism in Asia after Mao Tse Tung's victory in the Chinese Civil War.

The legacy of the forced prostitution of Korean women is real. Japan should be loudly criticized, in the world community, for after sixty years still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge it's past. Acknowledging this history is an important step in preventing such atrocities from occurring in the future.

There are still comfort women alive today. They never received reparations for their forced sexual slavery. Japan,incredulously still maintains that these women volunteered to be serially gang raped by Japanese soldiers. Their legacy of suffering must be memorialized around the world. This must never happen again.

John H. Armwood

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Psychological Profile of Liberals


"Just by virtue of their ideological stance, liberals can tolerate difference, they can tolerate not knowing, wondering ‘it could be this, it could be that.’ They can tolerate someone saying, ‘you’ve got it wrong.’ Liberals are just more open to all of that. It’s less of a problem, it’s less of a concern. They’re much more open to compromise, more open to experience—what would otherwise be threatening to people would not be as threatening because of their ideological disposition."

- Scott Eidelman, a social psychologist at the University of Arkansas

Mooney, Chris (2012-03-22). The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality (Kindle Locations 1831-1833). John Wiley and Sons. Kindle Edition.

Up w/ Chris Hayes: Urvashi Vaid: ‘Still a great deal of negative feeling’



Romney is lying about people not talking about gay people in the 1960s. I was in prep school in the 1960s and it was a very common thing for boys to insult and demean other boys by accusing them of being homosexual. In addition I do not believe Romney when he claims he does not remember battering the young man at his prep school. He committed a crime and should have been arrested.
John H. Armwood

PoliticsNation: Rep. Lewis continues fight for voting rights



A small victory in the State of Georgia. Watch John Lewis shame a Republican legislator trying to amend funding of the Voting Right Act of 1965 to gut funds for enforcement. If feels like we are living in the 1890s when these same practices occurred.
John H. Armwood

Friday, May 11, 2012

Jacksonville, Florida Attorney Janet Johnson on HLN Talking about Marissa Alexander - YouTube

Angela Corey, the prosecutor does not understand battered wife syndrome at all. Battered spouses of ten go back to their supposes and reengage with them. This has nothing to do with what happened on the day of the incident.