How Cable Companies Use ALEC to Get in Your Pocket
About 100 million people in the U.S. pay for what by comparison with other countries is substandard cable or satellite TV every year. Both...
The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.
In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...
Starting Over in the New World
There is an ongoing petulant argument being carried out in what one might call the economic and political press.
Should we cut government which...
A Nightmare in November
Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...
The Health Care Lobby’s Last Ditch Attempt to Stop Obamacare
The Patient Accessibility and Affordable Care Act, also known popularly as “Obamacare” heads into the home stretch of initiation this fall, October 1st, to...
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...
The Scott Walker Story
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...
It Is Time for a Change.
It is time for a change. It is time for the average American to get in the face of other average Americans, get on...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
Republicans Attacking Americans’ Affordable Health Care
The Patient’s Responsibility and Affordable Health Care Act—commonly known as Obamacare—had a remarkable milestone recently. After something like the 50th or 60th Republican House...
Inequality and Poverty
Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...
Governor Brownback, the Wizard of Oz
Has Kansas, under Governor Sam Brownback, become second-rate, with a semi-Fascist government? The answer is in the history of the state since Brownback took...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
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,...
The Nightmare of U.S. Private Prisons
With everything else you have to worry about—Fascism in government, domestic terrorists and the lack of intelligent response, a congress trying to overthrow all...
Still Crazy After All These Years
It has been 33 years since the ascendency of Conservative philosophy in the Republican Party and since the takeover of part of American government...