ALEC and the Corporate Takeover of America
Our government at local, state and national levels is being confiscated by huge corporations. It is happening every day in state legislatures all over...
Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet
Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or...
Fascists Pretending to be Patriots.
When we come across a video like the one below, we must expose it. We do not understand why a former Lt. General in...
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet...
Revolution!
Let’s be very clear. We could very well be on the edge of revolution. The Republican Party, which now controls the House of...
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to...
Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic...
No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian...
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...
In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...
No Cuts to Social Security
Since 1980, the Republican Party has been made up of Conservatives and since Bush the First's term made up of Neoconservatives. In the early...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems...
We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic...
Capitalism Versus Patriotism
American workers have been kicked around by industry for about 30 solid years now. Unions have been crushed, jobs sent to India and China...
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...
Democrats in 2014
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...
Putin and the Russian Economy
In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very...