ALEC

I don't watch much live television. But I do like to watch ballgames and golf and certain types of British television programming. I'm not...

by Joseph D. O’Shaughnessy It is not Trump. It is the long-term policies of the Super-Rich Right Wing, merely using Trump's Presidency to continue their goal...

If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...

The United States has been in decline since 1981. That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...

Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time. Congress is about to change the rules on health care....

We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.

It is time for a change. It is time for the average American to get in the face of other average Americans, get on...

For those who don’t know, Bruce Rauner is the new Republican governor of Illinois. And money? We all know what money is. Rauner is...

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy F. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly said to Hemingway: "The Rich are very different from you and me." And Hemingway is said to have...

Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today's Neo-Conservative agenda...the Paul Ryan Republican Budget...

by Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy I normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...

We are in a very serious time in the history of this country. Although it may not seem so to many, about 80% of...

The movement towards civil rights and a color-blind society ended when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. After only 15 years, the affirmative actions...

It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...