Jon Kyl and the Paris Hilton Retirement Plan
Here’s how you prepare for retirement.You figure out a way to be born into a very wealth family. Your daddy dies and you...
Neocons Revising History
When someone invades your home, steals your property, and takes the things you need to adequately live your daily life, you do not call...
Neoconservatives Versus Americans
When someone attacks your arguments or comments on your lifestyle, that may be a source of irritation or possibly even anxiety. But when people...
Sinister Economics
Let’s understand one thing. The economic problems of the country were not caused by “Progressive” or “Liberal” or “Populist” policies. They were caused in...
Government by Lobbyist
The recent Citizens United verdict by the Supreme Court makes one thing clear. For the time being, at least, lobbying is here to stay...
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...
Expansion, Not Austerity
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...
Disaster in West Virginia
There is no way to discuss oil spills without stopping to make a comment or two on the crime, the rape of the Appalachian...
On Oil Spills and Government Spoils
This is about our country.We have been through the Second Age of the Moguls and it was worse than the first, if that is...
The Angry American
There has been no time in recent memory when so many people, so many Americans, are very, very angry. They have every right to...
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the...
Here’s How Right Wing Obstruction Affects You Personally.
Life is not a newsreel, someone once said. It is not a sound bite. It is not the mere reporting of Republican Reich Wing...
The Roberts’ Supreme Court and the End of Democracy
With all the other problems facing this country, one that we should not have to face in 2010 is the validity and honesty of...
State of the Nation — June 2010
Where are we?We've got a bunch of tea party nuts...let's be frank...running around saying that the country is becoming a fascist sate and...
A Presidential Commission–To Cut Your Benefits
"Houston, we have a problem....""We're out of money."Our fiscal problems have at last reached emergency status. The Republicans, yes, the Republicans--in a purely...